Hi,
I am about to but a laptop, and have narrowed the choices down to a
Dell Latitude 600 and an Apple Powerbook G4 Aluminium (Princeton
provides these models at a discount for grad students).
I am biased towards the Powerbook, and would like to run Debian on it.
I have only used debian on i386 platforms so far. I use R quite
frequently, so I would be interested in your experience of running R
in debian/ppc --- are there any quirks with libraries, any packages
that don't compile, anything that should discourage me from buying a
powerbook or running debian on it, etc.
I would also be interested in your experience with the speed of the
platform. I have never used a RISC processor before, so I don't know
whether the claims that it delivers much more power per MHz are valid.
Please share anything that you consider relevant. If you think that
it's not R-related, please send an e-mail to the either address below
instead of the list.
Thanks,
Tamas
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