[svlug] request: which notebook to buy?

[Gareth J. Greenaway]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 10:48:33PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
[snip what I wrote]
> 
> Indeed.  Both should run various Linux distributions quite well.  The
> Titanium G4 iBook's DVD drive is now supported well enough that xine
> (http://xine.sourceforge.net) will play DVDs on it.

Does this play encrypted DVDs as well.

[another snip]
> 
> As to Mac OS X, I've always said that there's nothing wrong with it that
> omitting Quartz/Aqua, MSIE, the Cocoa layer, and the Classic.app OS 9 
> layer -- and adding the XFree86 Darwin port -- doesn't fix.  Except you
> lose a bit of performance compared to *BSD or Linux.

Personal preference on these things, MSIE does suck.  Thats a given,
but Aqua is a very cool UI in my opinion and very intuitive.  I suppose
you have to have used and liked the user interface of NeXT and OpenStep
to really dig the UI on OS X.


> 
> One starting point (not the best) for Unix on Macs:
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#maclinux
> 
> (I have a new toy:  A PowerMac 7200 that a friend gave me.  Something
> like 256 MB RAM and a 90 MHz PowerPC 601.  Should be fun.)
> 

Might I suggest replace that motherboard with a 7500, i've heard the
7200s tend to be a big buggy.

						Gareth


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Gareth J. Greenaway
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