[Cialug] distro for ibook

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com> wrote:
>  PC makers such as Dell and
> Gateway just slap in cards from the latest companies to have won the bid.
> That means, 2 PCs coming off the assembly line could have vastly different
> hardware, and vastly different success rates.

> To be fair, the only Apple product I have is an iPhone.  I'd love to have a
> Mac, but I can't justify the cost.  Although given the problems I've had
> with my HP laptop recently, maybe I should give Mac another look.  My HP
> laptop is in the shop for the 3rd time.  I bought an extended warranty
> through Best Buy, so it was covered.

You see, you've pointed out two major mis-conceptions in this email.

1. Best buy does not sell business-grade computers except the Apple products.

If you bought an HP computer at Best Buy you bought a toy. It is
cheap, it gets the job done but it does not have the same quality of
build as business grade computers. Just because Apple is the nicest
computer in Best Buy doesn't mean it's alone. Check out the Latitude
series of notebooks and the Lenovo ThinkPad line for comparables (or
if you like HP, the Envy line).

2. Dell (nor any other major manufacturer) does not just slap parts
into the computer. Having learned a bit about Dell's assembly line,
the process is not anything like this. There's not a bin of parts that
can get mixed up together. Especially in the business lines. Models
are spec'd out and maintained for a considerable amount of time in
some cases.

> I do think it sucks that I can't develop for the iPhone because I don't have
> a Mac.  The last time I looked, the iPhone devkit was only available for the
> Mac.
>

This is precisely why I bought the Mac. However, now I know that it
was a bad reasoning. Investing my time into learning Objective C is
investing in Apple's attempt to monopolize the consumer smart phone
space.

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Matthew Nuzum
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