Shopping around for a new Mac

Reader who'ven been chekcing out my blog over the past six months are going to freak at the news that I'm price hunting for a 17" MacBook Pro, running Intel Core Duo so I can dual-boot with Windows XP and continue to do my Win32 and ASP.NET work. But longtime readers of mine will recall how I got my start on computers with an Apple IIe, so ot's a homecoming of sorts. I've talked to a few people locally about the config, including a couple nice dudes at the local Mac shop.

One passer-by dweeb at the latter establishment easvesdropped on my conversation and rolled his eyes at the prospect of me using the machine for anything but Mac work, but it's the best thing for me. Plus, my expanding projects with Ruby on Rails (known bug) and Django (best on Linux) makes working with LAMP setups a pain.

Here's to venturing into the Great Unknown. Again.