On Feb 15, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Mark Des Cotes wrote: > Sorry for the tangent question but I'm just curious as to how many > of you are self-employed and if you are, what sort of work do you > do? Also, do you lease or did you buy your computer and why? > me: self-employed (part-time) architect here in zürich, switzerland (i teach also at the local institute of technology). i buy my computers (first a titanium 400, then a 12" powerbook then a 17" powerbook). i bought the 17" second hand in november because of the imminent announcement of intel machines coming in 2006. hth alexandre :: 17" 1.5ghz powerbook / 1.5gb / 80gb / X.4.4 ::