Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-10-02, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: >> >> Since it has now become amazingly difficult to get a laptop if you're >> not planning to use Windows, at least around here, I'm wondering what >> the rest of you fine folks do when it comes to purchasing a laptop? >> Next time this comes up, I'd rather not have to spend all day on >> something that used to take fifteen minutes. > > I know this is probably a bit sacrilegious, but recently I have been > tending to get a Mac laptop, and run any linux distributions I need > inside a VM. OS X is (just barely) tolerable enough to be usable for > most of my desktop purposes. (It's not really cost-effective compared > to non-Apple laptops, unfortunately.) For the last five years, I think it is, I've had the Ubuntu netbook remix on my HP netbook. I keep thinking about moving to CentOS - I rather dislike Ubuntu's idea of where to put things, how to update, the almost-bleeding-edge frequency of updates.... If I were buying a laptop, I'd probably go for a Dell Lattitude (*enterprise* grade laptop, not consumer grade, which are crap, intended to run WinDoze, and they expect you to buy a new laptop the next time M$ releases a new version of WinDoze, since it needs that much more in the way of performance.... mark mark