Upgrading from what system to MacBook Pro?

Out of curiousity, what systems did people have before switching to the MacBook Pro? Any quick thoughts on the transition from your old system?

I'm going from a Gateway 200ARC - 1.4GHz PM, 512MB RAM, 40GB, Intel video (shares the main RAM). The MBP should be quite a jump for me.
The last Mac I owned was a PowerMac 8500/120MHz/64MB/1GB (that's not a typo, it had a full gigabyte of drive space) running MacOS 8.5. Again, the MBP should be quite a jump.

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