I have a new Mac. Correction: I have two new Macs.

My aged and infirm iBook G4 has been officially retired, and in it's place I have a rather lovely 2GHz MacBook, powered by the rather lovely Intel Core Duo chip. Performance is astonishingly good; Spotlight searching – especially in my huge Mail database – is lightning-quick, and it's just generally super-responsive. I know that part of this is just that it's A New Computer and so lacking the years of accumulated detritus that was slowing down my iBook, but still. And having started off hating the keyboard, I'm now a total convert; it takes a lovely light touch to type. Best of all though is the glorious gloss widescreen display, and it ability to drive a second monitor. I'm something of a fan, you see.

Mac number two is a 1.5GHz Core Solo Mac mini, bought with the proceeds of a sudden and unexpected little chunk of internal freelance, which sits permanently hooked up to our television and stereo, browsing shared media libraries and our movie collection stored on a NAS via the rather spiffy Front Row software. Even my lady wife is impressed with the mini, which, when not media centre-ing it up to the max (or Macs, possibly) is working for the good of mankind by running various BOINC projects. Everyone wins...

I am quite happy with this state of affairs.