I'm pretty much a hard-and-fast Mac guy. I've had Apple products since the Apple II, and bought my first Mac when they came out in 1984, so I have a lot of history with Apple.
For a variety of reasons, I need to use a PC laptop to run a variety of astronomical automation programs, and my 10 year-old Toshiba laptop running Windows XP has been slowly dying. With all the holiday sales going on at this time of year, I grabbed an HP laptop at a low price. It runs Windows 8, which is sort of intriguing, but the best part is that all my software vendors assured me that their software would run fine under the Windows 8 desktop mode, which is essential
