I admit it. Apple has gotten me successfully hooked. I bought my Mac Mini when Tiger came out. I’m probably going to be buying another machine when Leopard comes out.

My eyes are lingering on the MacBook (the successor to the iBook, which is the machine I currently own) As I mentioned in my diatribe about Dells vs Macs below, the price can be misleading. The MacBook costs $1,299, and it’s only a Core Duo running at 2.0 GHz, not a Core Duo 2 running at 2.16 GHz. Still, you get the built-in iSight, the 667 MHz RAM, optical digital audio, DVI output, built-in 802.11g, built-in Bluetooth 2.0, and Firewire, not to mention a way better OS than Windows. (OK, fine, I’m not a gamer, but it’s an x86 machine. Go ahead and install BootCamp and run XP if you really want to.)

I have serious doubts about saving enough money for one anytime soon, but we’ll see.