Re: Notebook

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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:12:34 -0600
From: Merle Jephson-King <mjking@ruraltel.net>
To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
Subject: Re: Notebook

Tom,
I too agree.  I have always used a Mac.  I have an "old" G4.  The only
drawback is replacing the clock battery every three years.  Spam and
viruses are non-existent and my CPU speed is only 450.  I am a lurker
but this subject is worth my 2 cents.  If you can buy a classic Rolls
Royce for fun, surely you can spend $2,000 for a 17-inch laptop.  After
you buy the Mac you will wonder why you waited so long.  Listen to your
peers.  A Mac is the way to go.

Merle
On Feb 21, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:50:57 -0600
> From: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
> To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
> Subject: Re: Notebook
>
> I have to agree. Life is too short to not use an OS that is user-
> centric, runs an awesome *nix kernel and yet does everything you
> expect with commercial applications such from M$ Office and Adobe.
> You can still run X, compile C and fortran and hack the shell.
>
> M.
>
>
> On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:22 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 11:39:33 -0200
>> From: Antonio Mario Magalhaes <ammagal@mpcnet.com.br>
>> To: Tass Mailing List <tass@mail.alembic.net>
>> Subject: Re: Notebook
>>
>> Tom,
>>
>> If you're going to pay more anyway, get a Mac. Once you use one,
>> there'll be no turning back. In addition to the Mac's window manager,
>> as Chris says you can run X11 and do your stuff from terminal
>> windows, if you need to. It'll talk to Windows (argh) and Linux
>> machines w/o a hitch.
>>
>> Or you can get a 'Best Buy' pc and install VMWare in it. You'll then
>> be able to use either OS side by side, w/o rebooting. VMWare is a
>> virtual machine under which you can install whatever Linux you like.
>> While in Linux, you'll run TCP/IP transparently through your Windows
>> setup and it will use whatever drivers Win uses to talk to
>> peripherals.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mario
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:34 PM, Tass Mailing List wrote:
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>>>
>>> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:24:48 -0600
>>> From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
>>> To: Dirk Terrell <terrell@boulder.swri.edu>
>>> Cc: tass@tass-survey.org
>>> Subject: Re: Notebook
>>>
>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>
>>> Thank you.  I had already found your source among others.
>>>
>>> The thing that ticks me off, is that I can go to Best Buy and buy a
>>> notebook with Windows installed that is cheaper than I can find a
>>> notebook on the internet with no OS.  Bill Gates has succeeded in
>>> taxing
>>> every computer built.  Seems to me that this violates the anti-trust
>>> laws.  So I am ticked.  Very few (relatively - I have found dozens)
>>> will
>>> sell you a computer without the OS.  These are all more expensive, I
>>> have been looking all day.
>>>
>>> Tom Droege
>>>
>>
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