I'm looking to replace my 18 month old Macbook with a non-Mac laptop soon. Not just because of the Java issue but because the screen has started to show a vertical band. When I took it to the Apple Store I was told thats £250 + VAT (~£300).
I've never had a non-Mac laptop go wrong so soon. Btw, my Macbook would use up the battery in a day or two so not sure where you get a month from unless its brand new. Rakesh PS I believe there are hardware compatibility lists out there to find out if laptops are compatible with Linux distros. On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Reinier Zwitserloot <reini...@gmail.com> wrote: > Want a good laptop for linux? Buy ... a macbook. > > Okay, that was perhaps not the most useful piece of advice. I'm > interested in this too: When comparing linux vs. mac, I often see my > friends compare a MacBook (which is (duh) filled with hardware > specifically designed for Mac OS X) against a random windows laptop > they got from someplace else or bought with the intent to use as a > windows laptop, running linux. > > That's not a fair comparison: What happens when you set out to buy a > laptop specifically to run linux on it? Has anyone recently done this > - where do you check if the hardware works well? It's not exactly > trivial, here's everything that needs to work just right: > > - Multitouch trackpad (is that even possible on linux)? > > - Sleep / Hibernate mode: If you close the lid, does the system go to > sleep and does it wake back up instantaneously when you open it up? > What's the battery drain like in sleep mode? From personal experience, > windows laptops will waste the entire battery in sleep mode in about a > day. A mac takes a month to do the same thing. > > - High quality keyboard that's not too noisy (biggest drawback to me > of the new-style click-entire-trackpad mac trackpads is that they are > noisy when you click down!) > > - Sound, Video, wifi and bluetooth drivers. > > - Battery life: Can the OS properly shut down what's not being used > in order to get to the battery life that I'm used to - 4 hours > minimum. > > > None of these things show up in an advertisement for a notebook; those > just contain lots of numbers: Speed, screen size, disk size, all stuff > that's mostly irrelevant (to me, anyway). > > On Nov 1, 8:23 am, Kirk <kirk.pepperd...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I was about to buy a new laptop just as this disturbing news about Java came >> out. Now that I step back and take a better look at things, I think there is >> more than just that reason to go with something else. I have two reasons for >> Mac. First, the OS well integrated with the hardware, it is Unix and it just >> works out of the box. I'm not interested in messing with drivers. Second, is >> the trackpad. Every trackpad I've tried on Windows spec'ed hardware leaves >> me wanting to use a mouse. >> >> Question to the group is; what is a good choice for a laptop that has good >> Linux support? >> >> Regards, >> Kirk > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
