wow, are powerbooks really that shoddy? i know a ton of people with ipods and zero people who have not had an ipod explode on them. does apple make fragile products all around or something?
PREACHY - there are a number of ready-for-desktop end-user linux distros that are, well, very shiny and convenient. i stuck ubuntu on my toshiba satellite and seriously everything Just Worked. you need to apt-get a few things to get proprietary codecs for divx, mp3, whatever (i hear the latest release has a point'n'click utility that even handles this for you), but other than that, no problems. wireless, suspend to disk, widescreen display... all the traditional problem areas are covered. also my toshiba is almost 3 years old, has been all over the east coast, dropped a few times, banged into walls/car doors/humans, a hell of a lot of wear and tear, and i haven't had a single problem with it. not even a dead pixel!
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PREACHY - there are a number of ready-for-desktop end-user linux distros that are, well, very shiny and convenient. i stuck ubuntu on my toshiba satellite and seriously everything Just Worked. you need to apt-get a few things to get proprietary codecs for divx, mp3, whatever (i hear the latest release has a point'n'click utility that even handles this for you), but other than that, no problems. wireless, suspend to disk, widescreen display... all the traditional problem areas are covered. also my toshiba is almost 3 years old, has been all over the east coast, dropped a few times, banged into walls/car doors/humans, a hell of a lot of wear and tear, and i haven't had a single problem with it. not even a dead pixel!