Thanks shazza, very informative. I've been ogling the Macbook and its very interesting to see what Apple is doing with the pricing. The stock low-end model is a bargain, but you have to sell a kidney if you want anything else. Even the...
I'd like to echo the 2GB price gap. Why in the world does Apple want 500USD over the 512MB price?! A single 1GB DDR2-667 stick costs $100 on the street! http://castle.pricewatch.com/s/searc...667+sodimm+1gb
Can anyone chime in on the...
Glad to help.
You really be should quite well off with Ubuntu. I have found other "ready-to-go" distributions like Suse, Mandrake, and Fedora to be quite awkward due to their package managers. Ubuntu is Debian-based so you can...
Hey Hecluro, welcome to the club!
Although I am a Gentoo user myself (not something you want since you want to be up and running painlessly), I would definitely recommend giving Ubuntu a try.
You can try Ubuntu out by grabbing the...
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Originally Posted by easysea
yes i am a linux noob, but i will change all that soon LOL
im teaching myself now, it is going slow, but learning new code
always takes a while.
thnx for the reply...
easysea, if it is at all possible to get Linux going on the machine, you will be fine with Gentoo. It's not a matter of whether it will work, it's a matter of how long it will take you.
Mikhail
What about I/O performance of the USB drive? Even if you're talking about standard ATA/SATA drives in USB enclosures, I haven't been too satisfied with those. The hard drive is what keeps you down in regards to performance, so you don't...
