the other nice thing about alienware versus someone like dell or HP (my current slaptop is HP) is they don't do as much preconfiguring of software you don't need or want. They let you have more choice as to how you want your machine

 

really

 

 

even better is

 

Too many web-sites are not Mac compatible for me to go down that route .....

 

This is the only site I need TJ!

Besides you can fool them to think you are using the inferior Windoze platform

 

why dont you just bookmark the US hotmail site?

as for windows.. im using winXP pro at home.. its damn reliable.. never crashed yet.. i bought it when it first came out.. 2 years ago? XP pro is built off the NT/win2k kernel while XP home was built off the win98/ME kernel.. not sure if this makes sense... but basically the PRO version is usually more reliable... either way this doesnt solve your japanese dilemna.. but u know..

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wicky
[B]it would because you wouldn't need to run the Japanese flavour of windows on the laptop.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tokyo_james
[B]Why, just because I have a Japanese operating system when I type www.hotmail.com in the address bar do I get redirected to a ****ING Japanese page ????????

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jerrypeterson
[B]

This is more a function of the webpage code, not the operating system.