Re: experience with late model laptops?
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 19:57, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> Micha Feigin <michf@math.tau.ac.il> writes:
>
> On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 12:17, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> > > Yves Rutschle <y.rutschle@indigovision.com> writes:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 08:16:01PM +0100, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> > > > > Macs ? Cute ? Don't think so.
> > > >
> > > > Troll :p
> > >
> > > No troll here just my personnal taste :)
> > >
> > > > The question isn't wheather Macs are cute or not, but
> > > > whether cute is good or not.
> > >
> > > Indeed.
> > >
> >
> > Well, they are certainly much prettier then any pc I know. As for
>
> Did you ever saw a sony VAIO such as the Z1 model ?? I don't think so
> otherwise you wouldn't have said that.
>
The Sonys look nice I admit, although to my taste the powerbook g4 is
much more elegent. On the other hand sony don't have a customer service
worth s$%# what so ever, so I am not planning on touching another sony
laptop anyway.
Please forgive my language, but as far as Sony is concerned I fill that
was talking politely.
> > functionality, if you what you want is multimedia processing then
> > that the way to go, and considering that OSX is now unix based its
> > even better. As for a linux platform, it can be a little more
> > difficult the a pc, but works quite well. For me it is a problem with
> > the missing mouse buttons.
>
> I mainly use PC to develop. Personnaly, I'd rather use dedicated
> materials to read/play audio and video :) Ok I have to admit I also
> (sometimes) listen to music and things like that but my main interest
> in computer science is development ;)
>
Well, I was talking about multimedia development (i.e editing, rendering
etc.), and as far as after effects etc. goes, a mac is dedicated
equipment, short of a smp silicon graphics, but that is going off topic
I'm afraid.
> One thing I will want if I buy a new laptop is to be able to make it
> run under the GNU (a.k.a. GNU/Hurd). So I will try to help in
> developing it to achieve this task.
>
> zeDek
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