[Chester LUG] Would you consider a Macbook?

[Scott Fraser]

I have had a macbook since last October/November.  Nice machine, good
battery life, instant suspend/resume on OSX so it's all fine.

I also have Ubuntu and Win XP installed.  I can say that Ubuntu on a
Macbook is extremely sweet - very fast and makes OSX look laggardly.
Feisty installed with minimal fuss after using bootcamp to partition
(I installed Dapper before and it was a pain) and suspend to ram works
flawlessly when closing the lid, wireless works out of the box and
it's just generally a lovely experience.  The biggest pain is the lack
of 2 button mice on the machine - you can emulate but if I'm at a desk
I'll use Ubuntu with an external mouse but on the go I stick with OSX
unless I need Monodevelop.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook suggests that with the
current generation wireless doesn't work out the box but needs some
updated drivers, but it's not a big problem.

Scott

On 6/5/07, Tim White <darkstar01uk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Macbooks are very nice and sexy, I've used one a bit,
> but I don't think you get much spec for your money and
> parts are dear if it goes wrong. I'd get one if
> someone else was paying...
>
> Would you consider buying a refurb/second/end-of-line
> model? I got a Dell (cosmetic second, just a small
> scratch on the lid) from www.itcsales.co.uk and got a
> good service and good price - over £100 off list.
> It runs PCLinuxOS at the moment with no problems, I'm
> sure "the other OS" would work in VMware or Qemu if
> you must, or dual boot - do you mean Ubuntu? ;-))
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>
> --- Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi peeps,
> >
> > As some of you know my laptop died a horrible death
> > (anyone want a broken
> > widesceen centrino ;) ) I am considering what to
> > buy. I am thinking about
> > buying a Macbook. It's small, based on BSD ;) and
> > can now run the other OS
> > via bootcamp.
> >
> > However I really don't know. Has anyone ever had one
> > before for any length
> > of time. I mean I had a G4 powerbook but I really
> > didnt give it a chance
> > before selling it!
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