Re: Laptop recommendations
On Tuesday 08 January 2002 05:06, Muthukrishnan, Ramakrishnan wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:
> > Don't know about the pricing (Apple's store is currently off-line)
> > but iBooks are rather nice with long batter life and gorgeous
> > screens.
>
> Yes, I checked them up. The screen size is only 12.1", apart from
Apple introduced a new iBook with 14.1" display yesterday. Check it
out, it's on the apple site. But it's $1799 with 700Mhz and DVD/CDRW
combo. Still quite inexpensive compared with Wintel consumer laptops.
Apple hardware is solidly built.
> that it looks really good for the price vs the performance you get.
> But it doesn't have a floppy drive. Debian installation experiences
> on the net shows that they sometimes don't boot off the CD... also
You may want to check out
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ibook.html
> sound doesn't work at this point. Apart from that it is a good
> machine. But somehow I dislike Apple because they use a lot of
> propreitary ASICs on their hardware and don't publish anything about
> them, which is bad.
Apple is going to use more and more standard parts to reduce cost. I
don't know if Darwin, Apple's Open Source, provides also source code
for a whole hardware experience.
- Michael
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