Well, I am at the time in my life where in about a year or 2 I may have to upgrade my system... With apple, that has always been a . My question, is 86 reliable enough to use as my primary computer? Also, can it run all the apps apple can? (Photoshop, Flash 8, etc...)

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Why not have both? Set it up to dual-boot as per the dozens of posts in this forum. Photoshop and plenty of other apps work fine in OSx86 but they may be a bit slow, depends on what you're doing. With dual-boot you have the best of both worlds.