buying a mac.

so.

i decided to completely dump windows and every other microsoft product i use [mainly just windows and msn] about a month or two ago, and switch in full to linux. i was running windows 2000 pro, installed mandrake 10.3 or something that i already had on cd, it failed, two weeks later, i get ubuntu on cd and do a clean install.

two problems; i can't change my screen res to anything larger than 1024x768 [which is really pissing me off], and my wireless card isn't supported. i know ways around that, but with the recent wwdc a month ago and keynote today, a mac desktop is looking more and more appealing. i'm writing this from a [now outdated] ibook which i used for about a year before getting a custom built pc which i recently killed with linux.

i have this delicious large monitor that i'd like to keep, so right now it seems like my only option would be to get a custom mac mini. should i do it?

ok here is the scoop

if you have ever opened up a mac and tried to fix it you know why macs are not as good as PCs. A mac works out of the box; this is true. It works better than Windows out of the box. I will concede this. It does NOT work better than a pc one or two years down the road when some bullshit crazy part Steve Jobs made up in a drunken stupor (Read: "Flyback Transformer", "Logic Board", "I.O. Management Board", all of which I have heard fail on macs) dies and needs to be replaced.

Because when your mac is broken, it is broken. When my motherboard dies, I go pay $40-80 for a new motherboard. Mactards pay $100-200 for glorified Dell customer service.