Asus EEE PC

[Don Ellis]

I got a MacBook (not Pro) in August 2006, and I've been extremely  
pleased with it. VMWare has been great for setting up several VMs (I  
use Parallels, too).

Down sides: It's a good idea to run VMs on a separate drive to  
minimize thrashing -- extremely easy to add an external firewire  
drive on any recent Mac, and larger drive is much cheaper. Also good  
to have a drive case with a fan. Some innovative designs are proud of  
leaving the fan off, but I'm not impressed.

Also, the later models, with Core 2 Duo processors, allow a total of  
3 Gig RAM. My 2 Gig gets a little crowded, especially when I run X  
servers on the guest systems. Running guests without X servers  
reduces RAM usage considerably. I also have to quit some of the other  
apps I run. I understand Leopard has better memory management, so it  
might be less crowded than Tiger.

I got a laptop since I only have budget for one system and I need  
something I can carry around. This one has been wonderful, and has  
met or exceeded all expectations.

--Don Ellis


On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Bradley Hook <bhook at kssb.net> wrote:
>> I'd recommend NOT using a MacBook. I've been using a MacBook for  
>> over a
>>  year now, and the hardware quirks that show up in Linux are  
>> extremely
>>  annoying (i.e., random video buffer corruption).
>
> Sounds like FUD to me.  I've been using a MacBook Pro for 9 months and
> it's great!  Keeping your Linux installation under a VM allows you to
> do image cloning, makes backup a cinch, and you can run images of any
> distribution you want.  Keeping the underlying OS Mac OS X makes the
> computer more useful overall from a gaming / proprietary software
> perspective as well.  And you can run Windows either natively or under
> yet another VM.
>
> -- 
> Chris
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