On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Richard Kaye<[email protected]> wrote: > Not that I would put myself in the MS ubergeek category but I just bought my > first Mac - 15" MacBook Pro. What a beautifully designed system... And great > OOBE...
Depends on the community. In the rails community, MacBookPro is the standard. Anything else is regarded as... weird. In the local Linux community, it seemed to be a mix of pro-level Dell, HP, ThinkPad. At the Red Hat conference, Thinkpad, but it didn't hurt that that's Red Hat's corporate standard. At "An Event Apart" otoh, Macs. Apple had great OOBE, agree, but I just got tired of the (gentle, comfortable) handcuffs where OS X is almost UNIX except where it's infuriatingly proprietary. I've gotten pretty comfortable with Fedora on my ThinkPad. Note sure that uber-geekiness is all it's reputed to be... -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
