Re: [PLUG] R32 ate own hard drive -- recommendations for new purchase?

[mmalten@comcast.net]

Update:

I did order the MacBook.  Did a bit of homework and discovered that all 
the software I like -- OpenOffice, R, etc. -- runs on OS X.  I may use 
Boot Camp to dual-boot in Linux, or I may move (defect? transpose?) to 
OS X altogether.

The MacBook was clearly the way to go -- the amount of convergence from 
many sources was amazing.  For the work I'm doing now, I can use both the 
speed and the DVD burner.

Despite the dramatic behavior of my R32's death scene -- everything but 
smoke -- I was eventually able to get the Rescue Disk to talk to the HD. 
E2FSCK later, I now have a backup machine in place for when the MacBook 
gets here.  This puppy is no longer considered reliable.

Thanks again.
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