I don't if anyone has mentioned it but try building your own laptop. The
first time you build one it takes about 3 hours. Build it the way you
want it! The benefit is that you will always know what is inside of it
and you can always fix it yourself if something goes wrong.
There are only 5
Great idea and suggestion, Mike.
I've built several towers, but never thought of trying to build my
own laptop. Have you yourself done this?
I'm not sure where to look to find a source for a kit, but I'll
google for it to see what comes up.
Recently, I've even been thinking of getting one with
what did you end up getting?
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Nathan Englandnat...@paysonlinux.org wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:24:49 pm Josef Lowder wrote:
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my good plug friends), I recently
I am blown away you had such difficulty using a Mac. I used to hate Macs. I
bought one because I was sick of Windows... Its been fantastic. Sorry you
had such a bad experience, although it seems your complaints are more
cosmetic than anything else.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Dazed_75
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Lowder
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Subject: What laptop to get to replace my 15 macbook?
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many people
(including several of my
Josef Lowder wrote:
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my good plug friends), I recently
purchased a 15 Macbook, thinking that it might be the way to go.
While the Mac is a very appealing product in many ways with many
outstanding
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Subject: What laptop to get to replace my 15 macbook?
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many people
(including several of my good plug friends), I recently purchased a 15
laptop to get to replace my 15 macbook?
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many people
(including several of my good plug friends), I recently purchased a 15
Macbook, thinking that it might be the way to go.
While the Mac is a very appealing product in many ways
From: Nadim Hoque nadimho...@gmail.com
Josef Lowder wrote:
3. Failure to totally eliminate the caps-lock key
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IM SHOUTHING???!!1! No, lots of people like to
type in all caps, so they retain this. Like the QWERTY keyboard
itself, it's a Panda's Thumb of technology.
4. The
Thanks to all who responded. I guess I'll try to do a Linux install
on the mac before I just give up and replace it.
== Austin Godber wrote: Have you considered installing Linux on your
MacBook? It seems that both the latest Fedora and Ubuntu work with
little fuss on the MacBooks.
Thanks
I give up. It's posted to sell on Craigslist.
After looking into what is involved in trying to install Linux on a mac,
I can't waste any more time on this.
http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/sys/1333467379.html
Thanks again to all you wonderful plug friends.
Nadim Hoque wrote:
For the laptop in question just make sure it uses a atheros or intel
wifi card in it. To find out in the store, ask someone who really knows
the hardware and sometimes it will say on the bottom. The centrino
laptops do contain the intel wifi, but make sure that it is not
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my good plug friends), I recently
purchased a 15 Macbook, thinking that it might be the way to go.
While the Mac is a very appealing product in many ways with many
outstanding features, I have finally
Try a dell xps m1550, they can be had pretty cheap on outlet.dell.com
these days, and often I'll see 15% off coupons on deal sites. I love my
m1330, the 13 variant, probably the best laptop I've ever owned. Fully
loaded I payed about $1300 shipped with top of the line core2duo, 4g of
memory, and
i would take a look at sager and system76 based machines. in addition
some of the dell laptops work very well with Linux.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Josef Lowderj...@actionline.com wrote:
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my
Josef Lowder wrote:
7. Most of the *nix command-line commands and utilities that I am used
to using do not seem to work on Mac OS-X
I have the impression that it is possible to put an X-Windowing system
and the *nix collection of utilities on OS-X and run all the goodies
natively. Is this
Trent Shipley wrote:
Josef Lowder wrote:
7. Most of the *nix command-line commands and utilities that I am used
to using do not seem to work on Mac OS-X
I have the impression that it is possible to put an X-Windowing system
and the *nix collection of utilities on OS-X and run all the
Trent Shipley wrote:
Josef Lowder wrote:
7. Most of the *nix command-line commands and utilities that I am used
to using do not seem to work on Mac OS-X
I have the impression that it is possible to put an X-Windowing system
and the *nix collection of utilities on OS-X and run all the
apple has a X-window subsystem that is separate from whatever their
interface is. I would start there.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Trent Shipleytship...@deru.com wrote:
Josef Lowder wrote:
7. Most of the *nix command-line commands and utilities that I am used
to using do not seem to work
I'm not a mac guy YET... I'll probably build a hackintosh box eventually
here are a few related links:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/10/22/how-to-install-x11-in-os-x/
http://www.osxgnu.org/
http://developer.apple.com/tools/gcc_overview.html
http://www.odi.ch/prog/macbookpro/index.php
On Wed, Aug
Have you considered installing Linux on your MacBook? It seems that
both the latest Fedora and Ubuntu work with little fuss on the MacBooks.
Austin
Josef Lowder wrote:
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my good plug friends), I
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 02:24:49 pm Josef Lowder wrote:
Based on the very positive and enthusiastic comments from so many
people (including several of my good plug friends), I recently
purchased a 15 Macbook, thinking that it might be the way to go.
While the Mac is a very appealing
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