putting aside my earlier cheap smart **** comment - does anyone else get the feeling that the p2p community may become an essentially mac based community soon because of the sly moves towards installing the palladium chip in windows machines - I desperately need a new PC with a bigger hard drive etc but if all new machines end up coming with a chip blocking 'unauthorized' sharing of media files a substantial aspect of the exercise is crippled - the moves coming as they do in the context of the Hollings bill threaten the gnutella network of the non mac based community in a big way (its also worth noting that if palladium compliance eventually becomes mandatory as is being discussed in some quarters then macs would theoretically be deemed illegal)

maybe its a good thing after all that the new macs are so damn fine looking

Cheers, bad_vlad