Similar boat here - I replaced my Precision M4500 with a T410 because of the keyboard and weight. Switched it to an SSD, and maxed RAM and it is still running fine (dual boot Fedora and Windows 10). Since I don't game any more I don't feel compelled to replace it.

I'm using a T410 here - 8GB of RAM, SSD, it runs well enough for me, and it is much lighter then my Precision M4500 that I was using before.

Quite a few projects still have humor in configure - I learned that compiling *EVERYTHING* to make my IRIX install have somewhat modern software run on it. Check out PERL sometime, I remember that being a good one.

That's sorta what I was thinking, that in a lot of South America people are used to 'exchanging favors' with government officials so they are more then happy to work with someone from the government/police/etc; thinking that it will pay off down the line.

Wait, you're complaining because Ubuntu requires a CPU made this century? I don't consider most Pentium III CPUs to be 'fast enough' and certainly not the GPU from that era. The Pentium IV is 17 years old, I don't consider that unreasonable. Hell, the places that still sell them sell them for less then 10USD.

Well, given that Microsoft Office doesn't look the same computer to computer, version to version, you have quite a problem there...

Yeah, the layout has been weird like that for at least a few days - I get a little box on the right with my username, ID number, and Karma score and that is it (maybe it's an ad location?).

Hehehe...Haven't seen this one for a while. Needed that laugh, but you can troll better then that.

I don't let me smartphone update without first reviewing and testing the updates, why would I do that to my desktop[s]?

Oh G-d...Office 95, on 28 floppy disks. I think I have a Windows 95 floppy set around here somewhere too (plus a couple of DOS 6.22 (3 floppies) and Windows 3.1/3.11 (4/8 floppies)). And I have some old Mac sets, like FileMaker Pro and ClarisWorks if I dig for them too.

You aren't looking at the same picture. OSX server isn't going to replace BSD, Linux, or Solaris. It is putting an easy to use interface on DHCP, DNS, a directory service (I think it is AD compatible, not just LDAP + Kerberos, but I have not tried that yet. Maybe I will just to see), control backups on the client systems (Time Machine), and a very easy to setup OpenVPN server. Places that would use it are going to use it in place of Windows servers, and probably are not going to consider other Unixes as options.

A commercial competitor to Windows Server? I would say OS X Server is a good replacement for Windows SBS for small businesses that either don't want to invest in the Microsoft setup or can't (and do not have an experienced Linux engineer on staff).

Some people just really like OS X. Plus, while you can do virtually everything on BSD or Linux, it does make certain thing stupid simple (like setting up VPN access) to do.

Not entirely true. If you are running 64-bit Windows then they will not run at all (Since Vista Win16 has been dropped from 64-bit Windows).