How well Ubuntu (Feisty) works on a MacBook Pro

[Brian Fahrlander]

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Gabriel Dragffy wrote:

> Your email has some very good points and I agree with all that you say. 
> I am a 'PC man', always have been. At home I have an ancient 1GHz Duron 
> Desktop, a 1GHz HP Laptop and a newer MacbookPro. Otherwise we have in 
> the house a Sony Vaio 1.4Ghz and some Dell desktop. My mum uses the Vaio 
> and I set it up for her. She actually wanted a laptop so offered to buy 
> me a new computer and she'd 'inherit' my VAIO. I jumped at this 
> opportunity and went for a MBP - especially since apple has converted to 
> using Intel arch. I didn't expect to be able to use linux on it straight 
> away, as was the case with my VAIO, I had to wait about 1.5years for 
> Linux to 'catch up' with it. I thought that perhaps Feisty would be 
> 'there' but I don't think so, in this case I'll wait until Feisty+1 and 
> see what's happening.

    Ah; well I can see where yeah...jump away!  :)

> You are undoubtedly correct in saying that I could have got a PC for a 
> fraction of the price of a MBP that could run Linux perfectly... but I 
> just couldn't resist the opportunity when sum1 else was paying...! This 
> is probably the best and most up-to-date computer I'll ever own. After 
> this I'll be using the computers  from the 'bargain basement' shops.

> Oh one other thing:
> My Sony VAIO developed three faults over the period of one year, all of 
> which meant it had to be sent back for repairs. In this case Sony were 
> absolutely superb. Depatched a box for the vaio from Belgium, arrived 
> the next day. I packaged the computer in and the courier took it away to 
> France. They repaired it and sent it back in about 10 days. No trouble. 
> Now I haven't used the apple care thing, but I have heard they are tight 
> bas**rds, and you have to even take your macbook to your 'local' apple 
> centre. We'll see.
> I probably should have opted for a new IBM computer, they're built very 
> ruggedly and are a wee bit more compatible with linux.

    I've heard good things about Sony's products...I'd love to get a
PS3, for what I think are the exact same reasons you got the MBP.

    A guy in Chicago brought me in on a start up...he had a Vaio; it
seemed pretty nice. We were building supercomputers meant to make it so
that an assembly line need never stop for a crash that had happened
before; kinda like an optimizer. I really miss little opportunities like
that...here, in the town where I grew up, they still think Windows is
the only option, that computers can only complicate what ya do, and they
all sit on desks.

    I'm here because Mom got frail...had a stroke and a fall...but a
part of me wants to be back out there, earning "real" money and the
other part thinks it's best just to lay low.  :)  It's been a long, long
career for me.  But maybe one of these days I'll get the chance to try
either of these cool pieces of hardware.

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                              http://Fahrlander.net/brian
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