I got a MacBook (not Pro) in August 2006, and I've been extremely pleased with it. VMWare has been great for setting up several VMs (I use Parallels, too).
Down sides: It's a good idea to run VMs on a separate drive to minimize thrashing -- extremely easy to add an external firewire drive on any recent Mac, and larger drive is much cheaper. Also good to have a drive case with a fan. Some innovative designs are proud of leaving the fan off, but I'm not impressed.
Also, the later models, with Core 2 Duo processors, allow a total of 3 Gig RAM. My 2 Gig gets a little crowded, especially when I run X servers on the guest systems. Running guests without X servers reduces RAM usage considerably. I also have to quit some of the other apps I run. I understand Leopard has better memory management, so it might be less crowded than Tiger.
I got a laptop since I only have budget for one system and I need something I can carry around. This one has been wonderful, and has met or exceeded all expectations.
--Don Ellis
On Apr 25, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Bradley Hook [email protected] wrote:
I'd recommend NOT using a MacBook. I've been using a MacBook for over a year now, and the hardware quirks that show up in Linux are extremely annoying (i.e., random video buffer corruption).
Sounds like FUD to me. I've been using a MacBook Pro for 9 months and it's great! Keeping your Linux installation under a VM allows you to do image cloning, makes backup a cinch, and you can run images of any distribution you want. Keeping the underlying OS Mac OS X makes the computer more useful overall from a gaming / proprietary software perspective as well. And you can run Windows either natively or under yet another VM.
-- Chris _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug