I had been using Linux on a PC for the last several years, but moved to a Mac just a little over a year ago. I now have a laptop and a desktop - both loaded with OSX and Windows XP (SAS hasn't realized that we use Macs again). I have to use Microsoft Office due to university policy on software compatibility. Most of it works fine - BUT don't upgrade to the newest release of Office for Mac (2008 I think). It seems to run slower, and they dinked Excel so that no macros or add-ins from previous versions work.
The machines are well designed and can run programs native to OSX's brand of unix, with a little tinkering many other freely available unix programs, and by dual booting with XP, you can run windows-only software. Tom Martin Western Carolina University
