[H-GEN] Buying an Apple Powerbook...?????

Stephen Thorne stephen.thorne at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 23:15:55 EDT 2005


On 09/06/05, Gary Curtis <gazilla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi People,
> 
> I was two weeks away from buying a 12" Powerbook.  Then Steve Jobs
> dropped his bombshell about Intel.  What is the general consensus out
> there??   Do I keep my $$$ in my pocket for a while, hoping that Apple
> will drop the prices?  Or do I just go out and buy a regular Intel notebook
> as I was intending to run Debian most of the time anyway.
> 
> If it was your $3000, what would you do...?

For reasons various, I would get an ibook. I don't consider the extra
price worth paying.

OSX has nice stuff after years of linux. I should get a comment from
an ex-windows user at some point.

-- 
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer




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