The contests are relatively easy... I have a template for those... the other posts take a bit more time... but I've been sitting for about 6 hours on trains in the period between Christmas and New Year... so, I didn't have much else to do!

I always recommend Apple to my mother or to other people... but for myself, I find that everything is around the wrong way to what I expect and it drives me NUTS! They are decent hardware though (mostly...)... and you can't really fault the after-market support!

CUDA... it's been quite some time that I've heard that! It was all the rage at some point in time... but I guess for graphics rendering it is pretty useful!