Looking for Laptop Suggestions

Tue May 12 08:30:11 MST 2009

The dual boot system described by Craig is absolutely the best solution <on
a DELL! (Buy her a Red One)...

Actually Craig,
This is for a young creative, beautiful, normal teen, (not a geek) who will
be doing alot of school work, (not working on computers), hanging out and
walking ALOT between classes every day!

Rythmbox and gtkpod are very buggy:

   1. Bug #199326 in libgpod (Ubuntu): “*gtkpod* and *rhythmbox* crash when
   *...* <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgpod/+bug/199326>I
   can confirm this bug under intrepid using *Rhythmbox*, *GTKPod* and even
   Floola. My 5th gen 80gb black video *ipod* is pretty much inaccessible. *
   ...*
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   2. How to manage your *iPod* using *Rhythmbox* in Ubuntu - Simple
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   3. *GTKPOD*/*Rhythmbox* and *iPod* - Doesn't recognize music files when *
   ...* <http://www.debianhelp.org/node/15055>2 posts - Last post: Feb 12
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   in the *iPod*, I am able to see the music on the *iPod*, I can play the *
   ...*
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On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 06:58 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take
> > a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from
> > Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a
> > journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement
> > is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and download to
> > her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with
> > Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for a few
> > games and iTunes at home.
> >
> >
> > Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using
> > Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven forbid, a
> > Windows machine?
> ----
> The only growth segment is in the netbook area and given the low cost, good
> battery life and ultra portability of a netbook, I would definitely
> recommend one.
>
> I have an Acer Aspire One which was $350 w/ Windows, 160 Gb HD, and 1 Gb
> RAM and I partitioned the hard drive, giving Windows 32 Gb, 80 Gb for
> 'media' (formatted also to NTFS) and the rest is for Linux.
>
> Wine/iTunes isn't realistic. I tend to think of Wine as desperation
> software.
>
> Rhythmbox and gtkpod are able to sync with iPod's and I seem to recall
> that there was some slowness to backporting the changes Apple made to
> the iPhone and iPod Touch device synchronization but it probably is
> working now (I have a 5th Gen iPod so I can't tell you).
>
> I actually mostly use Windows to sync my iPod but the data is on the
> media partition and I use Rhythmbox and/or Amarok to play it or I
> suppose iTunes if I actually boot into Windows which is rare.
>
> mt-daapd can also read the music data and share it without other iTunes
> users which is pretty cool actually.
>
> If you buy a netbook, you would probably want an external DVD drive as
> they do not come with a DVD drive. You can always hook up a
> keyboard/screen/mouse when at home base...which I do...my KVM.
>
> Also, you would want to stay with some bleeding edge Linux stuff for a
> netbook because things are changing rapidly and they are paying
> attention to details like suspend to disk/ram, wireless connections and
> limited amounts of screen real estate. I have Fedora 11-Beta on mine but
> I would suspect that Ubuntu 9.04 would do well and Mandriva has a 'mini'
> version.
>
> As for jounalism...she should re-evaluate because it is an industry in a
> death spiral.
>
> Craig
>
>
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