On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Eugen Leitl <eu...@leitl.org> wrote: > > http://www.apple.com/macbook/ is too heavy? >
As a cyclist, yes. A MacBook is 2.1 kg and the far more expensive 13" MBP is 2.0. Small differences in weight add up over distance, given I ride an average 30 km a day. I wish there was a MacBook with no optical drive. > It looks like you won't be kicking your Apple habit anytime soon. > Which is sad. It can't be that hard for anyone else to find a market for a decently specced machine. There are Android phones which do that, but you can't really expect > wrestling the laws of optics, and winning. > Much as I love my Android phone, it's a piece of shit to be holding during an emergency. Field tested. I'll probably get a micro four-thirds (with Eye-Fi) when the high-ISO noise problem gets better, and when I have some money again. FWIW, G1Tether doesn't work on my rooted HTC Hero. > If the iPad is a success (it probably will be), hopefully there will > be more capable (but still affordable) ARM boxes from Apple. Or not. The iPad looks like a nice machine, but I use my netbook to code. A keyboard, trackpad, and the Ubuntu Apt repositories are indispensable. Package management on Mac OS X is a horrible kludge, despite Homebrew now having replaced Fink and Darwinports.
