[H-GEN] Avoiding the microsoft tax and laptops

[Anthony Towns]

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On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 08:58:14AM +1000, Trent WADDINGTON wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Mark Suter wrote:
> > I can thoroughly recommend an iBook.  They work very well with
> > Debian GNU/Linux.  You can get a well configured system (base
> > model, total 640MB RAM, wireless card) for less than AUD 2500
> > brand new (academic pricing from www.infinitesystems.com.au/
> Surely a whole swag of money went into making MacOS and this is reflected
> in the price of an iBook, shouldn't you be asking infinite systems to
> supply you with an iBook without the "MacOS tax".

You can run MacOS under Linux using "mol", reportedly. So maybe you can
get some benefit out of your tax, since there's probably no way you're
going to get out of paying it.

Cheers,
aj

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