Col ([info]cjwatson) wrote,
@ 2003-10-09 07:34:00
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Current mood:dazzled

Mugged by a laptop
My laptop's keyboard is showing signs of giving up the ghost, and while looking round for a replacement I think I've accidentally managed to convince myself that a PowerBook is just far too shiny to resist. Oops. They're slightly cheaper than I thought they were, though.

Mmm, shiny Apple goodness.


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[info]antinomy
2003-10-09 02:40 pm UTC (link)
What can I say except congratulations on your impeccable taste! ;)

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Yay!
[info]thombola
2003-10-09 02:42 pm UTC (link)
And they run Debian far better than the average x86 laptop does; just don't allow yourself to be seduced by the dark side^W^W OS X ;-)

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Re: Yay!
[info]cjwatson
2003-10-09 02:48 pm UTC (link)
[info]antinomy has been trying to persuade me otherwise ;)

Since a lot of my laptop use is for development, it'll definitely run Debian in some shape or form - I suspect I'll succumb and dual-boot it, though.

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Re: Yay!
[info]antinomy
2003-10-09 03:02 pm UTC (link)
Have you seen Xcode?

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Re: Yay!
[info]cjwatson
2003-10-09 03:10 pm UTC (link)
"Development" meaning very specifically "Debian development" - I was being slack while talking to [info]thombola because he has the same biases. :)

Xcode's fix and continue thing does look rather clever, though, I'll admit; I don't think I've ever seen anything like that elsewhere.

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[info]acronym
2003-10-09 03:53 pm UTC (link)
Get a student to buy it for you. They're substantially (~£100) cheaper on the HE national contract - the bottom-end PB is £1117.

No, of course I'm not thinking of buying one.

I.
Will.
Resist.

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[info]antinomy
2003-10-09 04:03 pm UTC (link)
You do know there's something like £120 quid off all of the iPods when you buy an education PowerBook at the moment, don't you..?

I'll just sit on your shoulder and wave this trident around vaguely, shall I?

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[info]acronym
2003-10-09 04:11 pm UTC (link)
BAD antinomy. No cookie.

(Actually, being billed 100 quid cause someone nicked a library book from your desk has this way of not making you want to spend money much...)

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[info]acronym
2003-10-09 05:00 pm UTC (link)
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The book showed up. I am an useless bloody cretin.

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[info]mtbc100
2003-10-09 11:19 pm UTC (link)
I wonder about value for money with them, but I do agree that they are nice and shiny. (-: Much shinier than my ThinkPad, I'll grant you!

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The dark side
(Anonymous)
2003-10-09 11:21 pm UTC (link)
Jesus wept. I've just spent two days at the Linux Expo trying to convince a guy to not be totally seduced by OS X on his new Powerbook, and I cited you as an example of all that is good and right about Debian people. And now you're a bleedin' Mac boy. Honestly. I never win. :-)

-- Aq.

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