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Re: Notebook


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:

>
> 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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