[CS-FSLUG] Laptops and iBooks

[Nathan T.]

On 7/25/05, Timothy R. Butler <tbutler at ofb.biz> wrote:
[snip]
> > Right now thinking about Macs is thinking out of my budget, I've been
> > considering more and more just going with the x86 approach for the
> > moment because I could afford it much easier and there is a Toshiba
> > laptop at Staples where I work that's going for CAD $999.85. The only
> > problem with the Toshiba is it only has 256 Mb of Ram, but again I
> > need to think within the bounds of my budget. I would love to wait
> > until I can afford a Mac, but I think instead I'll get a regular x86
> > laptop in another four or six weeks when I can afford it, and a Mac
> > Mini a year or two down the road when Apple makes the switch to Intel
> > processors. I appreciate the information, but unfortunately I can't
> > see an iBook or Mac OS X being so much better as to warrant the extra
> > cad ~$600+.
> 
> I think budget wise, that probably is a fairly good idea, so long as
> the Toshiba
> works well with Linux. The problem, as I've said, with Apple laptops is
> there is
> no such thing as a truly low-end one. All Apples are marketed toward the
> middle-to-high-end of the market, the same area that Thinkpads exist in, for
> example.

Radio shack (The Source [branch of circuit city]) has an AMD sempron
powered Acer on for CAD $899, I've been considering that instead but I
don't know how well Linux will work on it. To be honest though, I
don't know if I will put Linux on it because with my latest problems
with SUSE I don't know if I'll be using Linux any more.

Just to let you know how far things have gone, I downloaded Debian
which I had always considered my last resort since my previous
experience with it wasn't great. I may consider Mandrake again, but
that's about a fifty-fifty chance.