I was at a festival this summer and staying at the same hotel as many of the performers. They had the lobby rigged up as a wireless zone, so every morning it was full of musicians doing their emails, Skype calls etc. Every single one had a Mac laptop, not a PC to be seen. Seems to be the machine of choice among creatives.

It's funny reading the early part of this thread from 1999 when everybody was predicting the imminent death of Apple. Now it's just about the most successful and fastest growing individual computer manufacturer out there, according to a newspaper report I read this week. And through computer sales, not simply because of iPods and iPhones.

I just bought my mum, aged 85, an entry-level iMac. Some dealers still have stocks of the previous model white 17" ones that were superceded only a couple of months ago, they're a real bargain right now. She's thrilled to bits with it after years of struggling with a PC, Windows, viruses etc. She can't believe how much easier it is to use and how much more reliable it is.