<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 13-Jan-06, at 8:57 PM, Chris Olson wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">You pick your application suite first, because it's what gets the work done.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>THEN you pick the operating environment to run it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Uh... yes and no. What if the application suite you most prefer to use crashes every now and then on your operating system, causing you to lose time? Then maybe your best-bet is to use your *<B><I>second</I></B>*-best application suite on an OS that is rock-solid *<I><B>stable</B></I>*, so that you can at least be sure of getting your work done on time!</SPAN></DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Helvetica">If you need Windows software you should be running Windows, not Mac OS X.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Switching back and forth between operating environments is a productivity killing nightmare.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Not if you switch only occasionally. (I do use my wife's or my sons' Windows machine(s) on the odd occasion, using my TiBook for *<B><I>most</I></B>* of my work!)</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>