[mythtv-users] OT - Mac Advocacy, was; Which SVN?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

>
> Yeah.  I wasn't really thinking of laptops, and--at the laptop price
> premium that exists even on Wintel laptops--the difference there is
> small or non-existent.  So, I see your point (though, with sufficient
> hammering, I've always been able to fit a quite-useful, fully  
> functional
> GNU/Linux on my laptops--but doing so does require a lot of research
> before purchasing, which is good because it helps keep me from  
> upgrading
> a laptop that I don't absolutely /have/ to replace :).

I don't think you can touch a Wintel laptop with comparable features  
for what a MacBook costs these days.

The MacBook Air is an awfully high price for a machine without an  
optical drive, though I do note that Apple seems to be the first to  
mass-market a machine with a solid-state drive.

beww