Yeah, it’s practical. Boot camp makes it very easy to get up and running with dual-booting the operating systems. This means you can keep OS X Leopard and all the goodies that come with it (iLife etc) for if you’d like a visit to the ‘dark side’ and have a fully functioning Windows install that you can use if that’s your OS of preference for the majority of the time. All you do is hold ‘alt’ when you’re starting up and choose between them. You can also set one (probably Windows in your case) to be the default OS. And yes, it makes sense. Mac hardware is of an unquestionably higher build quality (and component harmony) than the majority of Windows-based manufacturer hardware. Just look at the aluminium Macbook and Macbook Pro. High quality materials, eco-friendly and a lot of bang for your buck. And for folk who moan about macs not being user serviceable, both the Hard drive and RAM are easily accessible on these models (in some comparisons, more so than their HP or Dell counterparts), meaning user upgrades are easily achievable.