It's nice having a computer near the TV, for checking up on myspace during commercials and whatnot.  It's also useful for looking up the addresses in Bodymore Murdaland mentioned on The Wire and Spanish words when watching telenovellas such as Amas de Casa Desesperadas.

I had Ubuntu 7.04 running on an old Dell laptop - with an external monitor, because the laptop screen crapped out after about a year - that I used for all this, but when I upgraded it to 7.1 the fancy-schmancy ATI card in it quit working.  RATS!!!  Rather than try to find a new linux distro for this PC, which came with the now obsolete Windows ME (I know!) and has been frustrating me for several years now, I bought a new Mac Mini.

At about $800 the price was right (I paid about $4000 for that *%&#-ing Dell!) and the existing monitor works just fine.  Best of all, for a geek like me anyways, is the fact that Mac OSX is Unix, and I am very comfortable using the command line.  To install joomla! earlier this week, I simply used ssh to access the servers and run portage.

If you're considering buying a Mac for your next PC, I say go for it, I am definitely happy with mine!