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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