Digging up this thread to give an update on what I did about the laptop:

My company shutdown last friday and I used up most of my PTO reimbursement to buy a PowerBook. I've been a Mac voyeur for some time now and had decided to switch (before the ads came out) when I discovered VPC. I used it at the Apple store in Palo Alto, and saw that the emulation was fast enough to use MS Office and write code.

PowerBook fits my home needs - listening to music, occasionally doing office work and surfing - which now will drop drastically since I'm moving back to Bangalore.

Oh, that reminds me - mine will just be the second Empeg installation in the Indian subcontinent - first being a friend of mine who bought the Empeg during the blowout sale, but who happened to relocate back to Bangalore couple of months back.

~Yogi.