[LAU] Apple hardware

Jorge Salgueiro jorge.salgueiro at gmail.com
Mon May 10 06:56:21 UTC 2010


I have a x41t thinkpad and its very silent. Don't know if it's as silente as
a macbook...


Atentamente,     Jorge Salgueiro (Incitec S.L.)
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2010/5/7 Marc Groenewegen <marcg at dinkum.nl>

>
> I realise there were quite a lot of Macbooks at the LAC. I even used mine
> for
> presentations but ran Linux on it part of the time. Due to the insane
> pressure
> of organising the LAC while at the same time all lectures and most other
> tasks
> had to continue I reluctantly stuck to OS-X most of the time in the past
> months
> because reboots drove me crazy.
> So sorry for that, but I'm going back to 99% Linux now.
>
> Most of our staff and students use a Mac and OS-X, although more and more
> students
> are adopting dual booting into Linux. We'll have to show them the
> advantages.
> I know several students that were at the LAC are in for the change, so the
> LAC
> certainly helped in creating awareness. We'll increasingly be incorporating
> Linux in the
> curriculum from now on.
>
> I quite like Apple's hardware though. So far I had quite a lot of trouble
> with
> PCs for audio, mainly due to the noise produced by the mains adapters,
> which
> seems to work its way right down to even firewire sound cards, which is
> unacceptable for serious work. So what will be my next laptop ? Advice on
> noiseless laptops is much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
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