I'd recommend a MacBook. Wonderful hardware, good development environment, very easy to use. And, of course, it's Unix. If you want to run Linux, you can install it on it or use Parallels.
Jeffrey.
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
I have had one suggestion so far that the screen size makes this _not_ a good machine (even) for casual coding.
My bro is far from a hard core coder.... infact the idea is to get him interested, or at least allow him the chance.