On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that Apple's long-awaited ultraportable has been confirmed as the iPad > and not a netbook-class machine with open access, I'm wondering what it > takes to fully kick the Apple habit.
Your reasons for kicking the Apple habit are not at all clear to me from the rest of your email. You have two criteria for your Ideal Machine: Size/portability and Lightroom/iTunes (and, implicitly, the CPU to run these comfortably). I am not sure that with the state of the art and your wallet you will be able to find something that is light and portable at the same time remaining beefy and powerful. How about having two machines? A netbook-class one chosen for its portability running Ubuntu or made into a Hackintosh. And your existing Macbook Pro to process your images and listen to music at home? Of course, this implies you have to live with the abominations like Rhythmbox, Banshee for music on your netbook. Thaths -- "Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman... and I have no interest in that, besides wearing the occasional underwear, which as we discussed is strictly a comfort thing." -- Homer J. Simpson Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
