The move back to x86 architecture
I know, some of you are going “No way, Barry is moving off of his PowerBooks?” Well, Apple is moving off of PowerPC chips, so yeah, the whole choice of laptop is up for discussion. As some of you may remember, I may have been saying for a couple of years that if I ever bought an x86 laptop it would be and IBM Thinkpad. Well:
1 – IBM Thinkpad T42 SMB Centrino -1.7G5 XPP 15-SVGA 60GB DVD/CDRW BLUGBE
That baby is on order from Buy.com. Looking forward to its arrival. Meanwhile, I plan on moving everything back to a native Debian install on one of my Titanium PowerBooks this weekend. This trying to work through an x86 Virtual PC Debian instance is ridiculous.
[...] I can hear the comments now; the next AJUG meeting I show up at with my MacBook Pro (MBP, the short acronym for “those in the know”…sigh, I must admit it is easier to type, even if it comes off as pretentious) will probably include a few comments along the lines of “Heeeyyyy…what happened to the Linux thing?” I have been pretty public about my distaste for Apple’s switching to Intel, mostly because of the amount of PowerPC-based Mac hardware I owned at the time. Shortly after that I pretty much shelved my PowerBooks and ordered my first ThinkPad. The Lenovo ThinkPad T42 has been a great machine, and since about mid-July I have been running Debian on a Fujitsu Lifebook P7120, an amazing 2.5-lb. ultra-portable. So, why plunk down the cabbage for a new Apple top-of-the-line MBP? [...]
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