Steve Engledow wrote:
Id love a new Mac but cant afford it.
No you don't, that's just the conditioning talking ;)
*I'D* love a Mac too - there are things a Mac can do in its sleep that Linux and Windows make a banquet of.
And I shall have one, if I live long enough.
So I am looking for suggestions. It will run Ubuntu or Mint alongside Windows (for those times when you have to use Windows).
If you've had a mac for 11 years, what times do you face when need Windows? Go the whole hog, you'll love it :) Life without Gates, Jobs, or other corporate monsters with plural nouns for surnames is far shinier. In the REM sense.
<mode="McEnroe> You *CANNOT* be serious! </mode> Name me one Linux program which can do what Irfanview does? Name me one Linux program which is as good as Paintshop Pro or Photoshop, and as intuitive?
And don't say "The Gimp" - IMO it's a pile of poo.
Which is why my notebook has its native Xandros, but my (bigger) flaptop has Debian as a main OS, but XP, so I can run proper graphics.
It needs to be fairly small, with a built in CD drive, USB, PCMCIA slot and built in sound. I know that all sounds fairly standard but Ive had machines in the past few years without some of these.
It really needs to be at least a 1Ghz machine capable of 1GB RAM - DDR preferably but PC133 would be ok.
Look at Acer. Mine's a bit elderly but it does all I want it to ATM. I've just acquired a legit XP Pro disc and I'm going to use a program (can't unforget its namee but I have its URL saved) to install just the essentials. Firing-up the XP Home (which came pre-installed) takes about three or four times longer than the full Debian package does.
Existing on the state pension as I do, I don't look too closely at "Ooooh, shiny!" all singing-all-dancing hardware in case it makes me unhappy, so I couldn't recommend anything to the spec. you want.
I bought a low-end Toshiba jobbie a while back and it's done me pretty well over the years. Anything brought out within the last 5 years or so is likely supported fairly well.
I now await the reply which shoots that down ;)
You're probably right, so I'll reserve my fire for your blanket condemnation of Otherware.
P.S. Sorry Simon, I blindly hit the reply button forgetting that I
wasn't in mutt.
Ha! Someone else using Thunderguts? (Can't see all the headr on this Eee unless I save it and look at it in a text editor.)