On 2009-03-27, Sylvain Abélard <sylvain.abel...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If only Apple wasn't so blur-fascist, and had 4:3 laptops with a nipple... > And non-glossy screens for all configurations, not just for > 2000⬠ones.
Well, yes, but the situation is almost the same on PCs: all the affordable models have a glossy screen.. and typically crappy keyboards. And the nipple you find only on the el cheapo Thinkpad SL models. The better T-model Thinkpads are just as expensive as Macbook Pros in .fi but come with a shallowscreen and megabezels these days. (The Thinkpads tend to be about 500e cheaper in .de compared to .fi!) > I'm testing this right now. That's not really a problem to keep your > thumbs on the trackpad, even with the "tap-mode" activated. If they > move a little, your mouse will flicker (thak God, it disappears when > you're typing), but that's not really a big deal. Would have to try for an extended period to find out if they'd have managed to make it work tolerably, but so far I've always had to disable to trackpad to be able to use a laptop. > The most painful is Window Management (missing ion so much) and that > "Spaces" multi-desktop thing not well integrated, especially > overriding some keyboard bindings (which are "customisable with > limited choices", all of them not satisfying). Sure you can run Ion in X in OS X? I run it in Windows XP under Cygwin/X, and half of my apps/windows there. (In Xterm, but also plan to use gv/xpdf/xdvi for TeXing when it comes time to write something again.) It works comfortably enough, switching between Windows and Ion, after I changed Mod1+Tab to Mod1+Q in Ion, instead of passing -keyhook to X, which disables the Windows key too, which I'd like to work (could then Win+tab on the taskbar). This keeps the Windows window-count tolerable; it couldn't handle the gazillion terminals comfortably without a tabbing terminal emulator or something... but that's just Ion then; I consider it my "IDE". > You may find yourself disappointed at their quite-non-standard > keyboard layout I have to reconfigure the keyboard on any system I plan to actually use for anything, in any case. Done that on Windows too. (Caps lock = control, extra altgr between shift and z, extra altgr+key bindings [1]. No dead keys, they suck.) [1]: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general/8542 -- In 1995, Linux was almost a bicycle; an alternative way of live to the Windows petrol beasts that had to be taken to the dealer for service. By 2008, Linux has bloated into a gas-guzzler, and the cycle paths have been replaced with polluted motorways.
