Macs are excellent machines for running non OS X operating systems on, they're even listed in several "best windows laptop" surveys (one at http://www.pcmag.com

Macs are excellent machines for running non OS X operating systems on, they're even listed in several "best windows laptop" surveys (one at http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369981,00.asp http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2369981,00.asp for example). They are also excellent Plan 9 machines, but I'm a little short on Google links for "best plan 9 laptops" at the moment.