I would personally avoid a coporate license, as I believe they are only for use with equipment owned by the company. Anyway I would check it out, especially when Open Office 2.0 is available for Mac, and little different from MS's offering.

As for a tablet, I've never extensively used one. Although I've use PDA's, and agree with your comments on the recognition software. I thought though, that with Video and Photo work, as with multimedia use, you don't need the keyboard anyway. Does Windows Table Edition come in XP Pro flavour, or XP Home, or both?

ratm456, Sounds like you got a good deal on the laptop, enjoy!

Corporate licensing schemes depend largely on the company.
We have one where people are allowed to use certain programs at home on a company license.
Previous company we could get pretty much anything on the MSDN, being an MSP made that possible (though I've a feeling now that they may have been a bit more free in handing out licenses than was really allowed).

Hello Dave,

Good Choice! You will be able to get OpenOffice to work on the Mac under OS X, but it will look a bit different than your typical Mac application, and it will require the installation of the Darwin tools in order to function.

I have decided to hold off on my next powerbook purchase until after they go with Intel hardware. I have waited this long to get a new PowerBook, and a couple more months (or sooner) will not harm me.

Christian

well, whats ur price budeget, mine is low so i have a pc, but if i had the cash, i'd get a mac duo any day.. think of the games... or a cluster... if i were running what u have, i'd get a mac, but if i had already bought all the windows software, i'd oribly stay windows, unless i could afford the switch