[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[jonathan michaels]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 07:33:50PM +0000, Andrew wrote:
> 
> On 26 Jan 2008, at 03:21, jonathan michaels wrote:
> 
> > past getting a toshiba but lately i have been thinking about
> > getting an apple notebook, esp if there is one available with a
> > 17 inch screen with 1990x1600 ish resolution. not teh intel
> > garbage redressed to look like an apple but a real apple
> > buitleded box .. any thoughts would be appreciated, please.
> 
> All current macs have intel CPUs in them and seem to work fine. The  
> only 17" laptop though is the MacBook Pro - http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ 

o'well i suppose at some point apple would have to go backwards
in terms of cpu choice .. i'm a cpu bigot and prefer the
mc68xxx seris as being a far far better architecure than
anything intel can dream up or 'borrow' so to speak.

>   -  and it does 1680 x 1050 or 1920x1200 depending on the model.  
> Depending on what use you plan to put it to you might want to just  
> look at using an external display when you need more pixels.

thx andrew thats fine for waht i want to do ,, big fonts with a
decent look (needs lots of pixel) i.e. A4 spread by at least 50
percen and on teh bad days 100 percetn plus magnification
(those 32 in lcd ar looking good when the costs come down).

> I think it probably comes down to choice of OS in the end. If you want  
> to run OSX you need to get an Apple and the choices are simpler. If  
> you don't then you have a whole range of choices, including an Apple.

yes and know .. i am sick and tired of having to build a
workable userinterface and then one that suits my needs .. i
don't really want to go to a linux turn key desktop, but, i
have seen a few really nice ones of late, before i go that far
i am hoping ot get a copy of pc bsd to tyr out. i've gotten a
couple of 2gb usd plugins that i'm going to try as the 'hard
disk' for a couple of those 'run from cdrom', oops live-cd type
offerings, a few bsd type seem to be surfacing, i quite like
teh anonymous (openbsd based, i think) live-cd its a really
good internet cafee companion something like that, just plugin
teh cd makes a few basic scratchings and you have a compltee
cml/gui (thake your pick) environment .. also easy to
navigate/use (i think). 

> Personally, I have a MacBook, run OSX and am quite happy (well with my  
> choice of laptop at any rate ;-).

i've been speaking to some mac owners (ok apple bigots) when i
filter teh BIAS it makes for a really compelling case (for my
needs). i really don't understand why this kind of bitternes,
this kind of pointless emnity exists between apple/intel
bsd/linux/microsoft. it makes getting information from teh
relevant camps (really) difficult at times, really confusing.

oh well thats life i suppose ..

thanks for teh words, muchly appreciated.

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