[TriLUG] Purchasing a new laptop (slightly OT)

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 01:40 PM, Joe Meador wrote:

> Sorry to rehash one of the most popular threads, but I'm in the market 
> for
> a new Linux-capable laptop and have just a few questions ...
*snip*

Suggestion: Check out the Apple Powerbook line.  Forget the 12" model 
for now; it has some major design flaws. I have the 15" model from last 
year and love it.  It will run Yellow Dog Linux among several other 
free OS's.  And don't let the "1.1GHz" number fool you, these things 
are plenty fast.  My lowly 800MHz G4 routinely keeps up with 1.4GHz P4 
systems on many processor intensive tasks.  And for anything 
vector-based that uses the Altivec instructions, well, let's just say 
Intel doesn't seem to make any processors that can catch up.

For operating systems, you could run Linux, or OpenBSD, or Darwin, or 
OS X.  I thought I would dual boot mine but found that OS X is a rich 
UNIX environment that is plenty good enough for me.  But you're not 
locked into any one OS with the hardware.

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Chris Hedemark
UNIX / Linux / BSD / Mac OS X / Windows consulting available.  No job 
too small!
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