This thread has convinced me that I want to stick with a proper OSX.
My little Mac power book is 4 years old now and due for an upgrade/backup.

I'm going to buy a new MacBook and partition the drive and load a copy of XP to run the windows apps I want. And I'll have OXS on the other side which is very stable and easy to use IME.

I was seriously considering a Lenovo Thinkpad and using OSx86. But that option seems to have almost as many technical bugs as the Linux option.
I don't remember shit about writing code and don't really want to. My poor brain is already saturated with trying to learn Thai! Jeezus fuck!