>> I just can't say enough good things about my Mackbook Pro. [...] > I've been happy with Apple laptops for a few years now. [...]
To offer a slight counterweight to the Apple gushiness...I wouldn't. I once had an Apple laptop for a week or so, and I wouldn't recommend them unless you find closed-source system acceptable - I don't, and I found that most of the Apple benefits go away then (for example, that means dumping Aqua, the Apple UI - it's not a UI I could stand for extended use, but it's usually cited as one of Apple's advantages), and the ones that remain don't outweigh the price. Even if you _do_ find closed-source acceptable (most people seem to), prepare yourself for having to relearn most of your sysadmin skills. I've worked as a Unix sysadmin for most of my career, and the Apple OS (some flavour of OS X, I believe it was) was at least as different from other Unix flavours as the more unusual of my experience - think AIX, only more so and in a different direction. For example, it took something like half an hour (and some lucky guesses - with twenty years' experience guiding them) before I figured out how to boot the machine single-user, and probably another half-hour or so before I figured out what I needed to poke to get the result I wanted. (Times approximate; this was quite a while ago and I no longer recall details.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user