I've recently fallen in love with feel and stability of Apples MacOSX operating system. I would really love an Apple MacBookPro in place of my IBM Thinkpad T41. I've been doing a bunch of computer work for Heidi at Life Alive, a vegan restaurant here in Lowell. She has a MacBook and I've had to use it quite a bit recently to configure remote access to her office (which isn't working by the way, hah).
I checked eBay to see how much Thinkpad T41's were selling for and I was shocked with what I found. $700! Holy crap, laptop prices have come down. Not more than 8 months ago the T41's were sellin' for $1600 on eBay! I bought it for $1800 brand new on eBay, when the retail price in stores was $2600. Oh well, maybe I'll hold onto it for another year or two and get a MacBookPro later.
I tried installing a Gnome MacOSX-like theme on my laptop (Ubuntu Linux) and that actually turned out pretty nice. Theres a lot of tweaking required to make it look and feel the way I want and I don't have time to do that right now, but it's nice to know it can be done. I also upgraded the Gnome Display Manager (gdm) and amazingly, everything worked much faster. Applications loaded faster, web browsing was faster, even scrolling was faster. I had no idea how slow things were running until I felt the faster speed. I'm not sure why upgrading gdm would make things run faster, but it did.