...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark
Phillips
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 5:24 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions
You, Henry Ford, and I all agree that black is the best color. You are in
good company. :-)
Mark
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Bishmer
#1 reason I would recommend Mac is that most of the time you don't have to
do the sysadmin stuff for the people that have those.
I haven't had any problems with DRM on Mac. True I am not doing a lot
of video
but audio has not been much of a problem.
I have to agree with your point of damage
My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take a
laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from Gnome, so
Windows, Mac, Linux are all the same to her. She is a journalist, not a
computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement is for iTunes to work
with
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 06:58 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take
a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from
Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all the same to her. She is a
journalist, not a computer geek.
In a Word: Dell
Dell makes the best laptops available and support Linux.
You essentially have only one problem here:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/03/04/itunes-syncing-now-works-in-linux-with-wine/
Banshee http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT7150747782.html
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:58
The dual boot system described by Craig is absolutely the best solution on
a DELL! (Buy her a Red One)...
Actually Craig,
This is for a young creative, beautiful, normal teen, (not a geek) who will
be doing alot of school work, (not working on computers), hanging out and
walking ALOT between
I am really liking what i have heard both on list and online about system76.com
100% Linux compatible laptops and the pricing is incredible
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Mark Phillips
m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote:
My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take a
I couldn't agree less. Sure it'll be powerful enough for her, no doubt,
but she's going to be typing up documents for school, and the netbook
keyboards are much smaller than a real keyboard. She could get used to
it or even use an external keyboard when she's working, but why force
her to go
As for jounalism...she should re-evaluate because it is an industry in a
death spiral.
This is true, but is it because of quality journalism or not... i gave
up paying attention because i kept getting bombarded with crap instead
of insightful information and the like... quality journalists can
If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell
and the Complete Care warranty. You can literally throw your laptop
against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have seen them
fix, while having to support some employee laptops.
* Replaced shattered LCD -
Get her an Apple (with AppleCare if you want the 2 years of extended
warranty).
Great hardware. Its light, it works with iTunes, Office or OpenOffice.
The best deal is refurbed from Apple's site.
13.3 Macbook white - $849.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB402LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw
Don't curse
AppleCare doesn't replace broken LCDs (know from experience). And this
often happens with students, usually from having a pen laying on the
keyboard and closing the lid*crunch* :-)
-Charles
Eric Cope wrote:
Get her an Apple (with AppleCare if you want the 2 years of extended
warranty).
I heard that happen once... followed by a oh F...
i cringed...
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Charles Jones
charles.jo...@ciscolearning.org wrote:
AppleCare doesn't replace broken LCDs (know from experience). And this often
happens with students, usually from having a pen laying on the
: Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions
I couldn't agree less. Sure it'll be powerful enough for her, no doubt, but
she's going to be typing up documents for school, and the netbook keyboards
are much smaller than a real keyboard. She could get used to it or even use
an external keyboard when she's
thats a good point. Let your kid buy themselves something so they value it
enough not to close a lid on a pen.
I bought my own IBM laptop and never closed the lid on a pen because I knew
I counldn't afford to replace it!
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Charles Jones
Thanks for all the advice! My take away so far:
1. Buy a Mac - all problems solved, but I have no idea how to use it or
support it, and probably the most expensive choice.
2. Get a dual boot system - inconvenient, but I can support it for her long
distance
3. Netbook vs laptop - I agree the
--- On Tue, 5/12/09, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote:
No one mentioned a VM solution - boot
Linux and run Windows with some form of vmware for ITunes.
Am I looking at yet more expense for high end hardware (lots
of RAM and dual core)? I have tried vmware on my P4 2 GHz
laptop
I run 32-bit XP in VirtualBox on my X360. It's a low-voltage, dual-core
1.2GHz chip (SU9300) with 3GB of RAM running 64-bit Ubuntu (8.10 at the
moment). It runs pretty fast for me; that is, the fan doesn't seem to go
crazy and there's no real noticeable lag in the host or the VM. To be
fair
Macs are pretty...
Macs are BSD, so you can support it too.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Joe li...@joefleming.net wrote:
I run 32-bit XP in VirtualBox on my X360. It's a low-voltage, dual-core
1.2GHz chip (SU9300) with 3GB of RAM running 64-bit Ubuntu (8.10 at the
moment). It runs pretty
On May 12, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Thanks for all the advice! My take away so far:
1. Buy a Mac - all problems solved
Hardly. You just move on to the OpenOffice vs NeoOffice issue. ;-)
http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Feature_Comparison
--
Conscience is
Arghhh...now I know why I don't want to get a MAC...lol ;-)
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Chris Gehlker canyon...@mac.com wrote:
On May 12, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Mark Phillips wrote:
Thanks for all the advice! My take away so far:
1. Buy a Mac - all problems solved
Hardly. You just
OpenOffice 3 works perfectly well with OS X without the need for X or
NeoOffice.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Mark Phillips
m...@phillipsmarketing.bizwrote:
Arghhh...now I know why I don't want to get a MAC...lol ;-)
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Chris Gehlker canyon...@mac.com
I use OpenOffice on my Mac.
You *could* buy Office if you want to... student edition is choke
affordable /choke
Eric
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Donn dlshum...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice 3 works perfectly well with OS X without the need for X or
NeoOffice.
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:08 -0700, Donn wrote:
OpenOffice 3 works perfectly well with OS X without the need for X or
NeoOffice.
agreed and I have too much history with the slow dog NeoOffice to ever
actually install it again.
OOo works on Intel based Macs - enough said.
Craig
--
This
use oo is so
much better.
Nadim Hoque
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From: Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 11:14:23
To: Main PLUG discussion listplug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Looking for Laptop Suggestions
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:53 -0700, Joe wrote:
I couldn't agree less. Sure it'll be powerful enough for her, no doubt,
but she's going to be typing up documents for school, and the netbook
keyboards are much smaller than a real keyboard. She could get used to
it or even use an external keyboard
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen wrote:
As for jounalism...she should re-evaluate because it is an industry in a
death spiral.
This is true, but is it because of quality journalism or not... i gave
up paying attention because i kept getting bombarded with crap instead
of
I agree it is not the same as before, but the concept of journalism is
not based on the media it is presented in be it TV internet, print or
newsprint.
the part that i find lacking is almost unilateral across these mediums.
and i honestly prefer to save the trees and get mine online. but its
On Tue, 12 May 2009 10:03:47 -0700
Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote:
4. Lisa picked up on a good point - my daughter is deathly afraid I will get
her a black box computer for college. I mean a real black box - square
corners, matte black. We don't agree on shoes, and we don't
4. Lisa picked up on a good point - my daughter is deathly afraid I
will get her a black box computer for college. I mean a real black
box - square corners, matte black. We don't agree on shoes, and we
don't agree on the need for a fashionable laptopso I have to
through in that as a
You, Henry Ford, and I all agree that black is the best color. You are in
good company. :-)
Mark
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Bishmer Sekaran bish...@sekaran.netwrote:
4. Lisa picked up on a good point - my daughter is deathly afraid I
will get her a black box computer for college. I
Thank-you everyone for your input. It has proven to be very helpful in
narrowing the choices, and provided some good input to discuss with my
daughter. This is what we have decided.FWIW:
1. Dual boot Windows and Linux. She only uses iTunes once a week at most,
and then to buy a song or two
Hi Mark,
As much as I would like to recommend a Linux system at this time the best
hardware you can buy is a Mac. I know some say that the premium $ is not
worth it but after using one for over 2 years I have nothing better to
recommend.
BTW, the price is way worth it and it's based on a
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 20:01 -0700, Greg Furmanek wrote:
Hi Mark,
As much as I would like to recommend a Linux system at this time the
best
hardware you can buy is a Mac. I know some say that the premium $ is
not
worth it but after using one for over 2 years I have nothing better to
System76.com
This company has a line of notebooks their new Netbook (got one
myself) with good hardware and customer support
check out youtube for a review of one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWBqgtJBOAA
You really can't go wrong here and with the other programs people
mentioned you should
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