I agree if you use it to make money Roy. For us plebs at home though we need our PC's to be affordable and reliable. For that the best current option is probably using Linux, if you can make the damn thing work. I have put it on several machines and never had a straight forward install yet.
My netbook is poorly supported - it is quite new so I suppose it is understandable.
Massive problems with a couple of bog standard IBM office PC's at work - ended up sticking a couple of AGP video cards in them.
An older laptop I had would not install out of the box either.
My home PC boots fine with it though with no problems.
My biggest problem though is me and the kids like to kill things with big guns online in our spare time and game support in Linux is pants
I suspect even less games work with OSX than Linux. Games worth playing that is
