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On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:04 PM, ref wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 11:42 -0400, Richard Pieri wrote: > >> Call me the heretic, but have you considered a MacBook Pro? OS X is, >> in my experience, the best desktop Unix out there, and you can get an >> Apple refurbished 17" MBP for about $1800. >> > > oh I thought about it for ages, but as my day job and my night job are > both heavy linux platforms (CentOS and Ubuntu servers) I need a laptop > workstation that can replicate the live systems. My wife has a > MacBook, > and I try hard not to covet it. I does 'look' great, very slick, and > works well with my iPhone (come on songbird, I'm waiting!), but I > cannot > justify getting the macBook and then running a whole series of virtual > machines .... Well, you can run Linux on a MacBook Pro too (dual-boot, even). And then your "other OS" is Mac OS X instead of Windows... -- Jarod Wilson jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org
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