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I'd recommend just jumping in. I went from Free- / Open-BSD to a MacBook very recently and it's been great (don't worry, I still use the BSD pooters). On the Mac, things are often just downright intuitive. In fact, the entire computing experience is somehow very pleasant and relaxing. Just...

I like firefox better because it doesn't give me a "POSIX memory error" message like safari.

Yes, thanks, I should've clarified -- my statement was meant to be subjective and only subjective. For example, my MacBook 1.83 is plenty fast for me and the Dell PIII it replaced was slower but also fast enough (ran OpenBSD). 64-bit addressing is very handy, although I've only needed it on...

Mat, if you've survived this long without upgrading, maybe you'd be able to stay pat until the next significant upgrade from Apple. Also, I fully believe that almost all modern hardware is plenty fast (e.g., Core Duo vs Core Duo 2 may not matter), but if you hold off until the next version of...

After reading your post, I've got the answer. It'll fix everything. Send your new Mac to me! :D OK, I'm not a Mac expert but once when I was thrown into looking after a Mac lab I got familiar with things just by jumping in. Just keep clicking, learning and reading (above-listed help...

If I had to do it, I'd put OpenBSD on it and set up a cron job to do the automated downloads.

It's going to take an old lady spilling a MacBook on her lap to make Apple do anything. Is the new / upcoming chip supposed to run cooler? Lynd, did you set power management to prioritize battery life? My 1.83GHz MacBook started running much cooler after I did this.

Please forgive me if my answer's stupid; I'm new here and haven't worked much with pdf docs in OS X. Do you have access to TeX / latex, like the teTeX distribution and perhaps front-ends like texmaker? These are all free and will let you do pdf hyperlinks (hyperref package).