my home computer is dead

My Home Computer is Dead

Hard and fast on the heels of last month's data disaster, my home

computer today refused to power on. It's about 5 years old (an AMD

1.8GHz machine with 512MB of RAM), so it was about time, but...

If you've been sending me e-mail or otherwise corresponding with me, I

might be as fast as you're used to on the response. But I'll use this

opportunity to poll my friends: What should I get as a replacement? An

Intel Mac Mini (fully loaded, of course) that dual boots Windows XP?

Or an IBM Thinkpad X60 laptop? The laptop is much more portable, and I

definitely love my X31 which is my work machine, but the Mac Mini has

a delicious S-Video out, so I can plug it into my receiver for video

playback.