[nylug-talk] New Linux laptop? MacPro?

[Henning Follmann]

On  07.Jun, 2007, at 13:42 , Rob Terhaar wrote:

> Hi everyone- I'm new on the list, and new to the NY area. :)
>
> I'm looking to buy a laptop for an upcoming contract job I just
> landed.  I've never bought a mac before, but I was tempted by the new
> Mac Pros. I plan to actually run linux on it primarily. The santa rosa
> chipset, nvidia graphics, and led backlit screen is all very tempting.
> I'm a bit concerned about hardware compatibility though.
>
> I know these laptops just came out, so it's safe to assume that not
> many of you have had a chance to try them out yet. But does anyone
> have any advice to offer about buying mac hardware to run linux
> primarily?
>
> Additionally, does anyone else have any similar laptops that they
> could recommend?


I do not have the most recent Macbook Pro but the G4 PowerBook the  
the previous MacBook Pro.
I like this laptop.
I run mainly Mac OS X on it but I also installed Debian on both.
I also use Parallels to run debian and freeBSD in a virtual  
environment on the MacBook Pro (which works great).
Since emacs comes with native carbon support I am very happy with Mac  
OS X as my main desktop environment.

Henning