I agree with you so much. The last time I had an experience where I thought my computer ran *nix really well, it was a Celeron 500 Thinkpad X21 with OpenBSD. I

I agree with you so much. The last time I had an experience where I thought my computer ran *nix really well, it was a Celeron 500 Thinkpad X21 with OpenBSD. I have not had sound work as well before or since (next best? IRIX with an Octane2.) My work dev box is a CentOS 6 PoS and while it's serviceable and works OK for dev, I have a windows VM for a reason and my personal macbook comes out often.