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New computer tells me I have no email messages when I know I do. conniecada@windermerecolville.com?

I have to buy a new computer. Friends have been trying to convince me to switch from Dell Windows laptop to a Mac PowerBook, but I’m not so sure. I use a computer for:

1. Access to the web & email. Yep, can do that on a Mac.

2. Write. Yep, can do that on a Mac. But I use OpenOffice as my office suite; not well-supported on a Mac.

3. Manage my finances. Eh . . . I guess I can switch from MS Money to Quicken. What a pain, though.

4. Play games. Oh boy. The Mac really comes up short here.

It’s that last one that hangs me up. Games that I love, like Madden NFL and Grand Theft Auto, just aren’t available on the Mac.

To get around the games requirement, a friend suggested I buy a Mac and an Xbox. But a Mac is already significantly more expensive than a new Windows laptop, so that doesn’t seem very financially viable.

Plus, since Apple is switching Macs from PowerPC to Intel chips sometime in 2006, now seems like a bad time to buy a Mac.