yes, waiting is a good plan. that way I can save up the money and won't have to buy it on credit. plus in a year they'll probably be 3 ghz rather than 2
oh, I see what you mean. the $1000 ibook has a 30gb drive, the $1300 has a 40gb drive, so you get an extra 10gb with the more expensive one (along with 100mhz faster g3, and a dvdrom/cdrw drive)
My ibook is only 700MHz, maybe it runs cooler than yours. Mine hasn't been too bad at the end of a 27-hour kde compiling session under gentoo linux. It was definitely very warm, but I could still touch the bottom of the ibook, no problem.
actually, a g3 is faster than a g4 for non-vector code. and the g5 won't be in a laptop for at least a year.
I agree that some $1300 x86 laptops will be faster than a $1300 ibook, but the x86 will also be much hotter and have at best half the battery life.
for serious number crunching, I'll stick to a desktop machine where I don't care about heat & power. but I appreciate low heat and a 4.5 hour battery life in a laptop.
and again, $1300 isn't a very high price. even the ibook with the 14" screen can be had under $2000. plus, you can run linux on the ibook too. (mine dual-boots OS X and gentoo linux).
check out the ibooks, they are much less expensive than you think. start at $1000 with dvd rom drive, cost around $1400 with dvd rom & cdrw. I agree the powerbooks are expensive, but I think that feature-for-feature, the ibooks can price compete with any x86 laptop, and will generally have longer battery life.
that was the first time I've laughed out loud at slashdot in a long time! it's funny because it's true!
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good point.
I just finished porting lavaps to Mac OS X, and almost all the system calls I had to make to get the info about running processes were mach system calls. I only used one bsd system call (sysctl), around 6 mach calls I think.
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apple's kernel is really mach, there is just a bsd compatibility layer.
The common problem they share is getting every piece of software to compile & run correctly on OS X. They can obviously pool their talents (and patches) to attack the porting of the software.
each group simply provides their own set of software for installing and maintaining the ported software on your OS X system. They get to share & distribute the hard work of actually porting the packages. Then everyone benefits, regardless of which package manager you choose.
if the problem is curses, that wouldn't apply to gvim (X11) or gvim (carbon) since they don't run in the terminal, they have their own separate window.
also, vim has a vi compatibility mode. if one of the gui versions works with your character set, you can try 'set compatible' in your ~/.vimrc file.
I can't live without the multiple undo levels, the much more convenient cut buffer handling, the syntax-directed coloring, splitting the buffer (horizontally or vertically) to show more than one file at a time, I could go on all day.
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yes, waiting is a good plan. that way I can save up the money and won't have to buy it on credit. plus in a year they'll probably be 3 ghz rather than 2
but I have no money :(
I've never used an emac. sounds like a good deal if you don't want an lcd
oh, I see what you mean. the $1000 ibook has a 30gb drive, the $1300 has a 40gb drive, so you get an extra 10gb with the more expensive one (along with 100mhz faster g3, and a dvdrom/cdrw drive)
the current ibooks with 12" screens for $1300 with dvd rom/cdrw have 40gb hard drives, not 10gb
could be, mine is only 30gb.
My ibook is only 700MHz, maybe it runs cooler than yours. Mine hasn't been too bad at the end of a 27-hour kde compiling session under gentoo linux. It was definitely very warm, but I could still touch the bottom of the ibook, no problem.
I agree that some $1300 x86 laptops will be faster than a $1300 ibook, but the x86 will also be much hotter and have at best half the battery life.
for serious number crunching, I'll stick to a desktop machine where I don't care about heat & power. but I appreciate low heat and a 4.5 hour battery life in a laptop.
and again, $1300 isn't a very high price. even the ibook with the 14" screen can be had under $2000. plus, you can run linux on the ibook too. (mine dual-boots OS X and gentoo linux).
can you please repost that, and rewrite it so I can understand what you're saying? Seriously, I have no idea what you were just trying to say.
ok, they start at $1000 with cdrom. you have to spend $1300 to get a dvd rom/cdrw drive equipped ibook.
check out the ibooks, they are much less expensive than you think. start at $1000 with dvd rom drive, cost around $1400 with dvd rom & cdrw. I agree the powerbooks are expensive, but I think that feature-for-feature, the ibooks can price compete with any x86 laptop, and will generally have longer battery life.
I was trying to print 8 individual 4x6 images, not a book.
and I've turned off my firewall, plugged my ibook straight into the cable modem, and have even tried it over my 56k modem.
What people are saying on the gentoo forums about this too-brief article.
also, a g3 is faster than a g4 for non-altivec operations. I even have toy benchmarks to prove it!
that was the first time I've laughed out loud at slashdot in a long time! it's funny because it's true!
I just finished porting lavaps to Mac OS X, and almost all the system calls I had to make to get the info about running processes were mach system calls. I only used one bsd system call (sysctl), around 6 mach calls I think.
apple's kernel is really mach, there is just a bsd compatibility layer.
mail.app desperately needs to be able to thread messages in a mailbox by subject also.
yes, there is a gtk+ theme called 'AquaX' which I think makes gtk+ apps blend in quite nicely with aqua. see an old screenshot, then google for it.
each group simply provides their own set of software for installing and maintaining the ported software on your OS X system. They get to share & distribute the hard work of actually porting the packages. Then everyone benefits, regardless of which package manager you choose.
ok, I see. cool!
in vim, each 'u' steps back one more undo. to redo, you hit ctrl-r. that way you can step forward and backward in the history of the document.
I'll give 'dtterm' a try. what did that improve for you? thanks
also, vim has a vi compatibility mode. if one of the gui versions works with your character set, you can try 'set compatible' in your ~/.vimrc file.
I can't live without the multiple undo levels, the much more convenient cut buffer handling, the syntax-directed coloring, splitting the buffer (horizontally or vertically) to show more than one file at a time, I could go on all day.
Here's a few good screenshots of gvim in action:
carbon gvim
X11 gvim running over the net, showing a diff between two files & a vertical split