catamorphism: > Hello all, > I'm in the market for a new laptop, and since I'll mainly be using it > to hack on GHC and other Haskell projects, I thought I would ask what > other people are using. One shouldn't really need a specialized > machine for this, but since my ancient PowerBook G4 (where "ancient" > is defined as "four years old") running Mac OS 10.2.1 has so far cost > me several days of work trying to build the HEAD on it, I figured that > it was both time to get something newer and a good time to figure out > which OS/machine combination would save me that amount of work in the > future. I'm trying to spend under $600, get as much RAM as possible, > and not use a proprietary OS (this leaves me with */Linux or *BSD as > the best options, but I have no idea which flavor will save me the > most time spent configuring and reinstalling things -- that's my > priority, as I've wasted enough of my life on that sort of activity > already).
FWIW, I use an x86 Thinkpad X31. I quite like the thinkpad X series, and would buy another. In regards not having to fuss about ports, an x86 running linux (debian) is probably the easiest set up. Keeping an eye out for a dual core machine might be a good idea too, in this age of concurrency. -- Don _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
