> What's the state of Bootcamp? I want to boot into Linux but could keep OSX > hanging around.
Having recently had the experience with dual booting on the latest MBP with Ubuntu I can give a bit of input. Disclaimer here is that I have abandoned Ubuntu for OSX over a month ago and the following info may be outdated. You are best to use rEFIt for boot loading. Gives you more options and can load more OSes if need be. http://refit.sourceforge.net/ As for general usage it works fairly well. The integrated button on the touchpad causes some very annoying issues. You will need to do a fair bit of tweaking of the settings to get comfortable. The MacTel packages were not all updated for the latest Ubuntu or the MBP 5 series hardware, so its a bit mix and match. This seemed to be more the case with the 15in (5,3). Observations/Annoyances: - 15 inch requires you recompile the kernel with a soundcard hack after any kernel updates - battery life is poor, ~2hrs, unless you try a raft of power tweaks that may or may not help. - most function keys work with the latest package for them (can't remember name) though I had trouble getting it to load on boot - light sensor doesn't work - switch between graphics cards doesn't work. high perf graphics card is used all the time which sucks power - sleep mode works from memory - latest ubuntu boots very slow, though this is observed on all hardware Ultimately it worked but for day to day productivity it became annoying with the touchpad issues and short battery life. Also you sacrifice the seemless integration between OS and hardware which OSX gives you, which I have since discovered is rather valuable. Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-ocea...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
