Right, the strong self-sufficiency aspect of Macs, especially laptops, is coherent with living happily away from the press of the crowd whilst being ahead of the crowd with one's personal computing tool. On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Richard McKay wrote: . . . > Couldn't agree with you more Charles, however the problem I have is that > here in Backwoods (read small country town), UK there is no broadband > available for love or money...I imagine that it is the same for Peter? In . . .