Things That Will Change Your Life, No. 27

Number 27. Switch to a Mac. Robyn did and bought a beautiful 13" MacBook Pro. And now I did. Well, sort of. I made myself a nice little Hackintosh. I won't proclaim the gospel of Apple here...yet. But the whole system is very intuitive, fast, and stable, and fast.

Ingredients:

Dell Inspiron Mini 10v netbook (refurbished), $249 from dell.com/outlet

Retail copy of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6, $29 from Amazon

8 GB USB drive, borrowed free from a friend

a couple free install programs, another Mac to image the USB drive, and a little bit of patience

The whole netbook rebirth took me about three hours with only a couple minor hiccups. I now have a $278 Snow Leopard Mac that is smaller than a stack of three Time magazines. Suck it Bill Gates. Well, actually don't. You seem like a pretty nice guy with your foundation and all. That old company of yours though really makes a crappy computer. Yes, I am a nerd.