Apple.com has a chinzy countdown clock for Leopard, which releases October 26th. I’m eager to see what (if anything) it will do to the price of MacBooks.
I’ve been using a MacBook at Carol, and I’ve been pretty happy with it. Ultimately, though, I think it’s just cute enough for me to not want to use it anymore. Since I do most of my development from vi, not using anything much more fancy than syntax highlighting in my editor, I like having a lot of control over my software installs — to that extent, I really loved Gentoo’s emerge. Also, I want a 15″ screen (this 13″ screen is driving me nuts), but I’d rather not have to spend $2k for it.
Unless someone has some really bad words to say about it, I’m probably going to go for a System76 Ubuntu Laptop. I can get one with 1280×800 15.4″ monitor, 2 GB of RAM, a Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz, and 160 GB for hundreds less than the comparable Mac.
The only thing is that I’d want it to have a mic in for podcasting stuff, which is an oustanding question to the sales people over at System76.
Edit: Tom in Sales got back to me. They have both a mic jack and a built-in microphone. Sold!
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I use Ubunntu and like it. All the power of Debian, a regular release cycle, and a nice installer. It’s the sort of a quantum step forward for Linux, the way Redhat and SLS were back in the day.
Wow, SLS. That dates me.
SLS?
Soft Landing System. You know, the distro that Slackware is a cheap knock-off of.
wiki page
Hmm. It also spawned Debian. Interesting.