[Gllug] slightly OT: laptop advice

[Jim Bailey]

Hi Steve,

we use them here at work iBooks and OS X is a nice combination if you don'
t want a Linux Kernel but do want an X environment you can drop Aqua (the 
OS X desktop) and run X instead and have Bash Csh or what ever as your 
Shell.

OS X has just reached 10.1.1 and is now a very stable and smooth OS, 
updates are by cron but they do require a reboot!!!

There is a load of BSD stuff you can use with out any trouble and the BDS 
ports system works well with Darwin.

Big draw backs are no Open office only M$ office 10 as far as I know.

If you can afford it you may want to look at some of the old Titanium 
Power Books, they have dropped in price since the new releases and there 
functionality is even more impressive fire wire etc.

I say if you like it go for it if you really don't get on with OS X you 
can always install DEbian PPC or Yellow Dog Linux.

Peace Jim

On Monday, November 19, 2001, at 05:01 PM, SteveC wrote:

> My old laptop is well and truely dead. Its falling apart, the IDE
> controller does strange things, the HDD has died. The keyboard works for
> most keys though. The screen doesn't replicate, and the I/R panel has
> fallen off.
>
> So I was in sevenoaks doing some tech support work and I got to play with
> a new ibook. I think they are very nice. Really clean design, long battery
> life (5 hour, supposedly). Small and light...
>
> And then I went and relooked at a bunch of PC laptops.. and I thought big,
> clunky, too many extra buttons for CD playing and crap. LCD panels and
> LEDs I don't need. Then the SODIMM covers jut out or the battery is a
> lump... whereas the mac is nice and clean...
>
> This is excluding some things like VAIOs... but hey
>
> So its my 21st a few days before xmas so if I combine xmas + bday presents
> I could get a new laptop - something I can really use. So at the moment I
> am thinking an ibook with OSX... I won't be reformatting it... I want a
> laptop to actualy USE :-)
>
> Has anybody had long-term usage of them? any good? Any advice on PC
> laptops? I have a thing for x86, but I really hate the laptops currently
> out there... anybody feel the same/differently?
>
> And anyway - the ibook pulses this cool white light when its sleeping...
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve
>
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