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Re: [PLUG] Looking for a laptop
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I have to agree - I have an iBook as well and really like the hardware.
I guess I should have gotten more RAM (only has 384M) because OS X
really started to annoy me after a while. It seemed that all the apps I
really wanted to run were linux apps ported over - requiring X. Even
though Apple's X was faster than the Darwin one, it was still sooo slow.
And the interface itself was just such a hog. I like the eye candy - but
not at the expense of responsiveness. I even got a program that would
turn off the shading - and it improved performance somewhat - but then
it was hard distinguish windows from each other.
I have since gone with YellowDog v3 and I like it. I also tried Mandrake
9.1 PPC which is good too. I like Linux on the iBook because the
hardware just works - at least so it seems. Sleep works - which is
really important to me. USB HID's work just by plugging them in.
I keep OS X as a boot option and even boot it via MOL occasionally to
get to some proprietary apps.
My biggest beef with running Linux on the PPC is that there are many
proprietary apps that have X86 versions but not PPC versions -Flash
being the most annoying.
Otherwise - I really like it.
On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 20:34, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2003, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> >
> > Apple iBook. Great value! OS X is BSD flavored, or you can run BSD on
> > it directly (OpenBSD is known to work, unsure about the others). I got
> > my Apple (a higher end Powerbook) with the idea that I'd probably put a
> > different OS on it but I've been very happy with OS X on it. X11
> > support in OS X is finally pretty good so I think it's a very safe bet.
>
> I agree with everything Chris said above - and you can even get your iBook
> (at no extra charge) preinstalled with Yellow Dog Linux if you by it
> through them (www.terrasoftsolutions.com). A 12" 800Mhz w/ 256 Mb RAM goes
> for $1049 before you add options like an airport wireless card. I have one
> of the 700 Mhz iBooks and I love it and would not consider trading it for
> an x86 laptop (and I never owned a Mac before in my life before I bought
> this iBook).
>
> > The only problem based on your requirements is the screen size; For
> > $1000 you're only going to get a 12" screen. For $1500 you get the 14"
> > screen (and a lot more other stuff above the $1000 model).
> >
> > The things are infectious. At my old LUG it seemed like one guy would
> > get an iBook, and then another, and before you knew it there were more
> > people showing up with Apple hardware at meetings than all other
> > manufacturers *combined*.
>
> They are like a virus. A while back we did an iBook Linux installfest at
> LUG/IP. One of the reasons why we did this was the previous months meeting
> we had something like 7 or 8 people at the meeting with either an iBook or
> a Powerbook, and I think only 2 people with x86's (and one of the two also
> had his iBook with him!). I have to admit though, I do run OS X a lot more
> then Yellow Dog Linux even though my computer is set to dual boot between
> the two (and I think YDL does a good job with their distro). It seems kind
> of odd when you think about Linux geeks using Apples!
>
> I'm of the opinion that if someone is in the market for a portable
> computer that (unless there is some reason you need x86 architecture),
> you are doing yourself an injustice if you don't at least take a look at
> the iBooks (or Powerbooks if you are looking for something more powerful).
>
> Ed C.
>
>
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