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New Laptop questions



On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:04 PM, ref wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:42 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote:
>
>> Call me the heretic, but have you considered a MacBook Pro?  OS X is,
>> in my experience, the best desktop Unix out there, and you can get an
>> Apple refurbished 17" MBP for about $1800.
>>
>
> oh I thought about it for ages, but as my day job and my night job are
> both heavy linux platforms (CentOS and Ubuntu servers) I need a laptop
> workstation that can replicate the live systems. My wife has a  
> MacBook,
> and I try hard not to covet it. I does 'look' great, very slick, and
> works well with my iPhone (come on songbird, I'm waiting!), but I  
> cannot
> justify getting the macBook and then running a whole series of virtual
> machines ....

Well, you can run Linux on a MacBook Pro too (dual-boot, even). And  
then your "other OS" is Mac OS X instead of Windows...

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Jarod Wilson
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