I thought I’d vent a bit about the fact that there is still no Merom-based Apple laptop. I was foolishly hoping that Apple would silently roll out Merom-based MacBook/MacBook Pros along with all the other goodies today, but no such luck. I wonder if the Inquirer is right in saying that there will be no Merom-based Apple laptops this year due to limited supply of the chip from Intel. That’d be a bummer, since I need to purchase a new laptop soon, and I was hoping it would be a Merom-based Apple laptop. Oh well, I can still wait it out a little longer.

I’ll admit that the title of this post is a bit deceptive. The article really presents the analysis I used to decide to switch to a Macbook (not a pro) from my IBM Thinkpad T42. For the record, the last time I could be called an Apple user was when I was relegated to using a Mac Plus as a terminal to a VAX and IRIX machine during a high-school internship. For the past 8 years I’ve exclusively used IBM Thinkpads (an i1300, T32p, and T42), except for a few months when I used a year old Dell Latitude (which I obtained for free) in place of my stolen IBM Thinkpad T32p. So, I’m no Apple fanboy and yet I’ve decided to switch. Below I explain why; I think my reasoning will apply to lots of other users as well.

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