On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 08:10:51PM -0500, Tim and Lisa Beckendorf wrote: > Perhaps this is a silly question but as I've been using pcs for years > I'm in the dark. I'm contemplating purchasing a Macbook Pro 17 for my > work which up until now has been entirely in a linux environment. If I > purchase a Mac, can I run Ubuntu successfully in something akin to VBox > or do I need to have a dual booting machine? I've been so accustomed to > free software and the beauty that is the Synaptic Package Manager that > I'm reluctant to have to purchase any software. Will the scripts that > I've written for rsync, hpodder, etc. work in the Mac environment? Is > anyone using Scribus on Mac that can comment on its performance (I use > it a lot).
In addition to what everyone else said there is, in my opinion, the single most important factor for a laptop: battery life. No one can touch what you get with a Mac running OS X. Dim the screen and with default power save settings and typical desktop usage (i.e., not gaming) you can get 7+ hours on a single charge. -- David Dooling http://www.politigenomics.com/ -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
