Laptops

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:11 pm

My work are kindly buying me a new laptop.

Price not really an issue within reason.

What is best.

I am thinking a new Thinkpad, although my T60 is still dope as.

Could go Apple, but just found out you can't set focus on window over. Bit upset about that.

Suggestions?

Post by **huge** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:15 pm

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:18 pm

macbook pro + parellels/vmware/bootcamp

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:20 pm

Is there really any point in getting a Mac if I'm just gonna run Ubuntu on it though?

I suppose it looks pretty

Post by **huge** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:21 pm

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:21 pm

T61 has no SVIDEO-out and no line-in from memory. Will have another look tho.

Wide screen one looks fancy

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:22 pm

Also really would prefer something with an actual serial port.

Do Macs have serial ports?

Post by **huge** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:24 pm

nope. good luck finding serial ports!

looks like all the new ibm's have no s-video only vga. we got the t60w's here also.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:25 pm

I think maybe I'm being too picky

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:27 pm

no more serial ports with the lenovo kit. i'm a lifelong x-series fanboy, so ended up with a new x60s when the x40 was stolen (booooo). it's still nice, but a little warmer, a little thicker, plus they've added windows keys to the keyboard, so all the bottom row keys are suddenly tiny. plus they've changed the power adaptor. boooo lenovo.

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:27 pm

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:35 pm

fooishbar wrote:no more serial ports with the lenovo kit. i'm a lifelong x-series fanboy, so ended up with a new x60s when the x40 was stolen (booooo). it's still nice, but a little warmer, a little thicker, plus they've added windows keys to the keyboard, so all the bottom row keys are suddenly tiny. plus they've changed the power adaptor. boooo lenovo.

Does Ubuntu run on a Mac?

Would it be a pain in the ass finding apps without having to compile them yourself?

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:42 pm

yes, and no, respectively. there are like 18000 packages iirc. (edit: plus powerpc is built at the same time as i386/amd64, from the exact same packages. it's not some lame-arse port after the fact.)

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:53 pm

Wicked!

Post by **fooishbar** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:03 pm

hold on, mac these days is i386 anyway.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:04 pm

Yeah just realised that.

Ha. Silly me.

Post by **system** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:47 pm

why would you want to install linux on a bsd-based machine?

(no offense intended, foo.)

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:45 am

Good question.

Because thats what I'm comfortable with I suppose. Never really had call to use BSD from scratch. Always been Debian.

Really all I want is Enlightenment.

I suppose it would much easier to just install that.

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 9:48 am

system wrote:why would you want to install linux on a bsd-based machine?

(no offense intended, foo.)

none taken.

Post by **system** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:13 am

jbs wrote:Good question.

Because thats what I'm comfortable with I suppose. Never really had call to use BSD from scratch. Always been Debian.

Really all I want is Enlightenment.

I suppose it would much easier to just install that.

it's worth trying out aqua & quartz. (aka mac os x.):)

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 11:15 am

you could always use debian gnu/kfreebsd. BOSH.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 5:05 pm

Does anyone know of any way I can get focus on mouse over in OSX?

Post by **system** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:26 pm

in what application?

Post by **fooishbar** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 7:27 pm

jbs wrote:Does anyone know of any way I can get focus on mouse over in OSX?

surely it's unpossible, due to the menu?

spiral · Post by **spiral** » Wed Aug 08, 2007 10:21 pm

jbs wrote:Does anyone know of any way I can get focus on mouse over in OSX?

quicksilver and witch make os x as painless as can be.

LuKo · Post by **LuKo** » Thu Aug 09, 2007 5:52 pm

s-video is handy as

Lephrenic · Post by **Lephrenic** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:22 am

I haven't understood a word of this thread.

That's why I bought a MacBook Pro.

Post by **system** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:24 am

system wrote:in what application?

ah, right. x windows. these tips should help you out.

Post by **JAMESSSS** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 4:42 pm

looks promising

http://www.codetek.com/ctvd/

You are right tho, I'd be silly not to give aqua & quartz a go.

Post by **system** » Fri Aug 10, 2007 6:09 pm

top marks.