<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am tempted to tell you to do one of two things both of which I have done for several years now in the same position. <div><br></div><div>1. look at a used mac (I have a g3 ibook that runs tiger just fine). </div><div>2) look at financing a mac book. (>100 month for a year);</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to work on a windows or linux box it will run them better than the average windows based laptop, natively or vm.</div><div><br></div><div>I will loan you my g3 if you are just needing something now. </div><div><br></div><div>Don.</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Cameron Adamez wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>So Dorkbotters...<br>If you were trying to get a laptop on teh cheap and were previously a die<br>hard Mac user but can't afford them anymore, what would you get?<br><br>Camo<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list<br><a href="mailto:dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org">dorkbotpdx-blabber@dorkbot.org</a><br><a href="http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber">http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>