Is it crazy to buy a MacBook?

[bradhamilton]

> From: Magnus Runesson <mr-ubuntu at linuxalert.org>
> Subject: Is it crazy to buy a MacBook?
> I am thinking about buying a notebook/laptop and only run Ubuntu on it.
> One of my choices is a MacBook with Intel Core 2 Duo.
> (http://www.apple.com/macbook/macbook.html )

Just curious - why run Ubuntu on a Mac platform, instead of OS X?
Is there something you need in Ubuntu, that isn't available/can't be 
compiled & run on OS X?
[...]