kadymae
April 5th, 2006, 10:43 PM
Where I work, some lucky person who attends the seminars sponsored by the IT department is going to win a lap top.
I'm going to attend. There are 3 choices offered: An Apple 12" G4 Powerbook (http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index12.html), a Dell E1505 (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_e1505?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs) and a Gateway tablet computer.
The Gateway is out. I have one on my desktop and I am so not impressed with it. Also I've heard lately that their build quality is :/
Which machine would you choose? Why?
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Me? I'm torn. That's a nice PB, but PPC is on its way out at Apple. I suspect that it will be harder and harder to find a good PPC Linux about 3 years from now. (I tried YDL once. Loathed it.)
However, the basic config of the Dell seems kind of rinky dink compared to the PB (I very much doubt it will have the options like dual core or DVD burning), and I don't like "vampire video". I think the wireless networking in it is proprietary, too. And it's got "media center" not XP Pro.
On the otherhand, I will be able to try out several flavors of Linux on it. A friend of mine is thinking about Xandros, and I can't beta test it for her at the moment (no x86 machine at home).
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ETA: I am an Apple & Ubuntu for PPC user at home. If I got either laptop it would be set to dual boot.
I'm going to attend. There are 3 choices offered: An Apple 12" G4 Powerbook (http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index12.html), a Dell E1505 (http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_e1505?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs) and a Gateway tablet computer.
The Gateway is out. I have one on my desktop and I am so not impressed with it. Also I've heard lately that their build quality is :/
Which machine would you choose? Why?
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Me? I'm torn. That's a nice PB, but PPC is on its way out at Apple. I suspect that it will be harder and harder to find a good PPC Linux about 3 years from now. (I tried YDL once. Loathed it.)
However, the basic config of the Dell seems kind of rinky dink compared to the PB (I very much doubt it will have the options like dual core or DVD burning), and I don't like "vampire video". I think the wireless networking in it is proprietary, too. And it's got "media center" not XP Pro.
On the otherhand, I will be able to try out several flavors of Linux on it. A friend of mine is thinking about Xandros, and I can't beta test it for her at the moment (no x86 machine at home).
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ETA: I am an Apple & Ubuntu for PPC user at home. If I got either laptop it would be set to dual boot.