On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:04 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, that's really interesting. I found dell laptops with ubuntu > starting at $500. > http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs > > I assume that they could read from my external drive as well ?
Presumably :-) > Can ITunes run on ubuntu ? No, though you could run it on Windows under VMWare (or Parallels) > Is installation of software involve more steps > and complexity on ubuntu ? Sorry, too vague a question to reasonably answer, IMO. > anyway, that's a good price, what advantages do you think a mac has ? As I said -- on a Mac, you can do browser testing (or desktop software testing, for that matter) of the three major platforms: Mac/Win/*nix. On a Windows or *nix machine, you only get two of those three. I like OmniGraffle for IA work (flow charts, etc.). And there's consumer stuff that's available for Mac and Win* that isn't available for *nix, but you just have to decide how important that is to you. My primary dev system for a long time was a SuSE desktop machine so I was used to the minimal-consumer-toys issue. Though I had to use it for a week recently when my MBP logic board died and mostly I missed Twitterific :-) Anyway, HTH! -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
