I love my apple. It has been the best laptop i have ever owned. Personally, i have never had a laptop last over a year without something going wrong with it. Prior to purchasing my ibook, I owned many PC brands like Dell, HP, Compaq, and Sharp. They were all good machines, but the battery life was always horrible. On a good charge, 45min to an hour was all i could get out of them. What good is a laptop if you have to be near a plug all the time? When my last PC laptop died, i went out in search of the longest battery life in a laptop. Apple boasted 4 hours on their 12in ibook, so i purchased one.

I have been very satisfied with it. The battery lasts at least 3.5 hours, sometimes more depending on what i am doing. It is very quiet. There is no loud rushing fan. I am most impressed with the suspend feature. In my past experience, suspend on a laptop is a very touch situation, usually involving prayers to awake it from its slumber. On the apple, this is not the case. I can be in the middle of anything, just close the lid and it will go to sleep. upon opening the lid, it resumes flawlessly. This is something i personally have not experienced on any other machine.

As i mentioned earlier, i have this curse that kills my laptop every year. Like clock work, last February, my ibook died. I do have the apple care plan. I talked to them on the phone and explained that my laptop was no longer functioning and it needed to be repaired. The next day, DHL dropped a box at my house. It included packing material, pre-printed shipping label, and packing tape. I simply put the laptop in the box, taped it closed, and slapped the shipping label on it. DHL came and picked it up the next morning and it was at the repair center that night. Including travel time, it took 3 days for the complete experience. They replaced the mother board, hard drive, keyboard, and the little rubber feet I lost off the bottom.

One thing i do not like about apple is there switch to the Intel chip. Personally, i think Intel chips are garbage. I have had much better luck with the PowerPC. Fortunatly I purchased my ibook be for they switched.

On 11/14/06, Craig White <craigwhite@azapple.com> wrote:

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 13:04 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> der.hans wrote:
> > Proprietary software is not near 100% the correct tool either :).
>
> Agreed. And Free software usually wins, and as time goes on it wins by a
> wider margin. :)
>
> > I would note that at least some of us GNU/Linux users avoid proprietary
> > blobs.
>
> Yes. Not just a few, but a lot, actually. It's more about the distros,
> and the kernel. Which distros are blob-free? (Yes, I'm really asking)
----
not Ubuntu or SuSE

definitely Red Hat, Fedora, CentOS, Debian

Craig

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