New Laptop questions

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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 ....
Having said all that, I have spent quite a while configuring and
tweaking compizFusion, and can get a very 'mac-like' experience under
Linux. Enough to make most Mac people who laughed when they saw the
'PC-like' laptop suddenly become quite and respectful when they watch
Compiz in action :)

Richard




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