Agreed.........got my G4 PowerBook w/ 60 GB HDD and 1 GB RAM two days ago and have yet to put it down. Also got a brand new Dell Inspiron 8200 with the same config. only running WIN XP. I have yet to do anything meaningful with it. Maybe AFTER I get tired of the Mac................NOT !! Would be nice to have a "Virtual PC" setup for Linux similar to the one I got for WIN XP for the Mac though. Funny...............the Win XP virtual PC app in the Mac runs faster than the XP which cam loaded on the Dell with a P4m / 2 GHz /1GB RAM........kinda makes you wonder.

From: Voltage Spike

Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us

Subject: Re: Notebook Recommendation

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:57:56 -0700

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On Friday 16 August 2002 04:39 pm, Matt Pruett wrote:

> I was looking at some of Toshiba's laptops, however as with many

> companys they are forced into selling windows with the laptop! and that

> royaly pisses me off, I have never payed for a Microsoft OS and I dont

> intend to. However that goes for any product that your just plain not

> going to use, why fork out 100-200 $ for something your just going to

> format off the system?

I just thought I would insert my $.02 about this. If it is really an issue,

then purchase the laptop from PC Club. They seem to be great items, and I

got a $120 (or thereabouts) discount when I priced the system out. They

really seemed like decent systems.

In the end, however, I went with the Apple Powerbook. Although I have not

attempted to install Linux yet, I must say that I have been quite pleased

with Mac OS X.

The only issue I currently have is that the included emacs doesn't include

font-lock-mode (syntax coloring), and I cannot get fink's terminal version to

work. Other than that, I have been extremely pleased with both the

productivity and the entertainment side of things. Plus, I am a big fan of

eye candy. :-P

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Voltage Spike

,,,

(. .)

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