I used OS X for about 7 years, but finally decided to give up on the Apple Tax. I bought the first refurbished laptop that met my specs (cheap, lots of ram) an

I used OS X for about 7 years, but finally decided to give up on the Apple Tax. I bought the first refurbished laptop that met my specs (cheap, lots of ram) and installed Mandriva (as I'd read that it would enable me to use my Windows Mobile phone as my network connection). I hadn't used Mandriva for many years (although I'd used Fedora, CentOS, Suse, Ubuntu in those years). I've been very impressed by Mandriva laptop in the last 3 months or so. And to buy an Apple laptop with the same screen size and ram would have cost as much as 6 of these el cheapo laptops. I can't think of anything I've missed from my powerbook in the last few months. And I could always install OS X inside a VM if I really needed it. Can't see myself ever going back to Apple now (although I've still got 4 macs around the house, it's just that I don't use them any more).