Aaand I need more ram.

I just tried to boot XP inside VMWare Fusion. It sort of worked in that it booted and Windows moaned about needing to be reactivated (that’s one thing I like about OSX, it doesn’t want to talk to Apple every time you do something to your computer. Not that a Mac can be substantially changed like a PC can). Then it tried to use a gig of ram, causing everything to grind to a halt as a swapfile was filled with useful things like OSX and Finder.

It was like using my old 286 and Windows 3.11 Fortunately the Mac manual tells me what RAM to buy and how to fit it.

Firefox and Google Browser Sync work nicely, and OpenOffice is good enough.