Re: [Mactel-linux-users] buying a macbook pro

[Sheer El-S. <sh...@gm...>]

Just to pipe in quickly. I might consider selling mine soon which
would put me in a similar position.  I would recommend looking at
companies that have made some effort to support linux such as dell and
IBM.  I know Dell's machines are ugly but they're cheap and
configurable and some of them may have good linux support and its nice
to support people that are linux friendly.  I think there will always
be a problem with cutting edge laptops like the MBP that try to
maximize their weight/space to performance/feature ratio by having
special hardware that isn't well supported by Linux.  I tried googling
around for a sight with some up-to-date linux laptop recommendations
but couldn't find one.  I might suggest something like this at
phoronix.  It might help get companies to be more linux friendly if
they're rated poorly on some sight which really details which laptops
are the most linux friendly.

cheers,
Sheer

On 6/24/07, Jon Grosshart <jgr...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/24/07, k11stan <k1...@gm...> wrote:
> > what you say about the mpb pricing is not exactly true - compared to a
> > dell xps (which is the only brand  with most similar features )  is
> > 2300 $ - and the new mbps are 2k and have a better dx10 compliant
> > video card ..
>
>
> Well, the $2300 XPS that I saw has a 17" screen with a 256 7900 GS GPU...
> Granted, some of it's specs aren't as good as the MBP but it's still a 17"
> lappy. It's not an 1" thin too which all but guarantee's better heat
> dispersion/regulation... Anyhoo... The things are expensive is my point. :-)
> Too expensive to be having these problems.
>
> As badly as I've been "burned" with this MBP, I still wouldn't mind having
> an Nvidia one. It's that fanitical Apple loyalty kicking in. Makes no sense
> but there it is.
>
> This is just something each individual needs to decide upon. Just using OSX,
> they are great machines for the most part. However, having an intel chip
> guarantee's that people are going to be running other stuff. That's THE ONLY
> REASON why I bought one in the first place. You can install almost anything
> on it. Saves me from having to jump around to different computers.
>
>
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