RE: laptops

2002-09-13 Thread Edward Peloke
: Thursday, September 12, 2002 6:43 PM To: Edward Peloke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: laptops At 16:21 -0400 9/12/02, Edward Peloke wrote: Forgive me for getting off topic but I am thinking of buying a new laptop. Which brands do you all trust? I don't have much to spend at all. I am leaning towards

Re: laptops

2002-09-12 Thread Christian J Hedemark
Apple. I spent the extra $$ for a Titanium PowerBook G4 800MHz but you don't need to spend that much for stellar performance. For about a grand you can get the iBook which runs OS X (a BSD-flavored UNIX), it comes with PHP and Apache already installed, and there is an easily installed binary

Re: laptops

2002-09-12 Thread René Fournier
I guess I'm a switcher. I've had my iBook for almost a year (running OSX, now 10.2), and just absolutely love it. For the web development I do (MySQL, PHP, Apache), it's just great. ...Rene On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 02:44 PM, Christian J Hedemark wrote: Apple. I spent the

Re: laptops

2002-09-12 Thread Christian J Hedemark
On Thursday, September 12, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Brent Baisley wrote: While OSX is slower than I would like it to be on a 333Mhz G3, it's very workable. What version of OS X are you running? Jaguar (10.2.0) is noticeably faster. You can do an upgrade, but a fresh install is better. The

Re: laptops

2002-09-12 Thread Paul DuBois
At 16:21 -0400 9/12/02, Edward Peloke wrote: Forgive me for getting off topic but I am thinking of buying a new laptop. Which brands do you all trust? I don't have much to spend at all. I am leaning towards a compaq since they are offering an upgrade to xp pro for free (which I will need) and a