Justin – thanks for the key pair thing. It’s gone 2am here and I can’t get it right but it’s top of the heap for tomorrow certainly.

Ian / Michael – Feeds. NNW is okay but I’m using Feeddemon anyway so it’s more just testing the water. NNW syncs with Newsgator which syncs with Feeddemon which is why I like that.

Lloyd – no switch :)
I haven’t given the mini a fair crack and despite my initial frustrations I did want to. So that’s what I’m doing. I’m seeing what works – for me – better on which machine. One will win but as yet I do not know which – and that’s genuine. It was also because of a new laptop I wanted and a Macbook was sort of in there. But every machine always needs more memory than arrives with it and that puts an already very tight macbook just well out of my reach. I can get a cheaper XP machine.

Why the switch?

Text editor – SubEthaEdit, integrates nicely with Cyberduck (older versions can be downloaded for free non-comercial use).
RSS – Vienna, nice and free, though I am still using a mix of Safari2 and bloglines.
For formatting, I used Disk Utility to format an external drive with a mix of HFS and FAT32 partitions. Something like SuperDuper can then be used for a bootable HFS volume while you can read and write to the FAT32 with both OS’s.

Also, without having access to a Mac and an external drive, just from my *nix experiences, I’m guessing your external drive is formatted as NTFS. Writing to NTFS partitions from non-MS OS’s is really in it’s infancy. You’ll probably have to reformat as FAT32 if you want to be able to use it from both machines.

And Gimp is available or is that too complex. what sort of image editing do you need to do?

Neasan – It’s staying on the PC. I haven’t found anything and also it’s space. I have six times the space on the PC if not more so splitting it would be daft. I also hooked up the better speakers to the PC :)