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

October 9 2003, 14:40:16 UTC 8 years ago

What can I say except congratulations on your impeccable taste! ;)

[info]thombola

October 9 2003, 14:42:20 UTC 8 years ago

Yay!

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 ;-)

[info]cjwatson

October 9 2003, 14:48:16 UTC 8 years ago

Re: Yay!

[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.

[info]antinomy

October 9 2003, 15:02:52 UTC 8 years ago

Re: Yay!

Have you seen Xcode?

[info]cjwatson

October 9 2003, 15:10:07 UTC 8 years ago

Re: Yay!

"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.

[info]acronym

October 9 2003, 15:53:45 UTC 8 years ago

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.

[info]antinomy

October 9 2003, 16:03:58 UTC 8 years ago

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?

[info]acronym

October 9 2003, 16:11:45 UTC 8 years ago

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...)

[info]acronym

October 9 2003, 17:00:24 UTC 8 years ago

...

The book showed up. I am an useless bloody cretin.

[info]mtbc100

October 9 2003, 23:19:48 UTC 8 years ago

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!

Anonymous

October 9 2003, 23:21:05 UTC 8 years ago

The dark side

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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