From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-10-05T09:17:44+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF Topics :: PC-laptop or Powerbook

Excerpts from Squeak Smalltalk's mail of  4 Oct 2005 (CDT):
> I will change job soon and I have to decide which type of laptop I
> want.  I have always had pc-laptops.  But I see that a lot of ruby
> programers use powerbooks.

My data point: I have a 3-year-old Gateway laptop that's thin and light,
has a 15" screen, and has only had one problem in the past three years
of heavy use and travel (the hard drive was on the verge of failing and
I swapped another one in---trivial). Best computer purchase I ever made.

I ripped off Windows and installed Debian. I have the latest Gnome stuff
on there and it's very very pretty. Total cost:  far less than a
Powerbook.

Of course 99% of my usage involves ruby-mode in emacs (text-mode, run in
an xterm), LaTeX, and Firefox, so ymmv.

-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>