Re: Notebook

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:48:03 -0600
From: Thomas F. Droege <droege@fastmail.fm>
To: tass@tass-survey.org
Subject: Re: Notebook

OK, you all are convincing me.  Do I buy it at the Apple Store or is
there a discount that works somewhere else?

Tom Droege


On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:18:33 -0800 (PST), "Tass Mailing List"
<tass@mail.alembic.net> said:
>
> 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:
> >
> >>
> >> 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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