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RE: [PLUG] Laptop Recommendations
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Your time estimates are pretty much waht I was thinking when I got the
iBook and I have found that I'm in OS X about 95% of the time (ok, I'm
making a slideshow for my daughter's 1st birthday - but I haven't needed
to get 'out' of OS X to do something - either something I normally would
have done locally in linux or remotely on a linux box. I've really
surprised myself - so much that I'm still dumdfounded that I didn't get
the iBook sooner.
> When I bought by iBook, I was expecting to spend my time as follows:
>
> Yellow Dog Linux: 70% of the time
> OS X: 25% of the time
> Mac OS 9: 5% of the time
>
> In reality I do the following:
>
> Yellow Dog: 14.999% of the time
> OS X: 85% of the time
> Mac OS 9: 0.001% of the time (I booted it once to see if it worked :-)
>
> I don't think I have ever needed to get into Linux to do any work that
> involved connecting to/administering my Linux or Solaris servers. I
> really like OS X, and with the various packages you can download, you
> can run most of the GNU/Open Source software that you want to on it.
>
> Ed C.
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, W. Chris Shank wrote:
>
>>
>> Here's a question for the iBook users: are you using Linux on the
>> iBook or still using OS X?
>>
>> I recently purchased an iBook and have been really enjoying it. I
>> installed Linux but find that I'm able to do just about everything I
>> need to from OS X - although there some annoyances I have with OS X
>> particularly the window manager. Since I have Linux servers in my
>> network that I can use remotely , i haven't really needed to boot to
>> linux. I haven't yet put the iBook to the mobile test - seeing how
>> useful OS X is when I'm going from location to location - but so far I
>> don't see anything that would give me cause for concern.
>>
>> thanks for your input.
>>
>> > Ed C. said:
>> >> I really think you want an iBook :-) The LUG I am president of
>> (LUG/IP - Linux Users Group/In Princeton (NJ)) has about 5
>> >> people with them and we all love 'em.
>> >
>> > We saw at least as many iBooks at every Triangle Linux Users Group
>> meeting, which doesn't count my own TiBook.
>> >
>> > And don't forget, with Virtual PC installed on an iBook you can
>> still run XP on the Apple (without shutting down OS X)!
>> >
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