Re: FN-FORUM: Mac vs Linux advice?

date posted 12th January 2005 19:33

On 12 Jan 2005, at 20:03, Joe Freeman wrote:

> assuming Mac has SSH

of course. OSX has everything you would imagine UNIX to have... SSH,
SSL, Apache, PHP, MySQL ... and so on. though you have to install some
of those yourself ;-)


> Been doing my research on the PowerBook (iBook doesn't seem geeky
> enough) and it seems that the disadvantages of the 12" are: crap
> display, slow disk and slowish processor - are these just faults of
> older models? Is it really as bad as is made out?


i don't think the 12" pbook is so bad. definitely quick enough for
web based work - and the small screen gives added portability.

i've always been happier with the 15" model though - 17" seems a bit of
a beast!

remember you can customise your laptops: once you click on 'add to
cart' on the apple store, you can spec it up as much as you like...
for the record i specced my current one as far as it could go :-)

this is the main advantage of buying direct from Apple through their
online store: they will modify components and build the spec you want
- as opposed to the stores that will usually have the default
configuration, which you won't be able to change much in future.

L.


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