Where did u by the Sony Viao laptop and how much and specs please<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Mike Harrison <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cluon@geeklabs.com">cluon@geeklabs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Richard Bronosky wrote:<br>
> to portables... Fagetaboutit. No one come close to Apple's size<br>
> constraints and build quality. Maybe Sony, but they are more expensive<br>
> than Apple for lesser specs.<br>
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</div>I bought a very nice 18.4" Sony laptop and have been very very happy with<br>
it. I'd say about par with Apple for similiar specs (I -almost- bought the<br>
Macbook Pro), once you discount the OS and Application licenses from<br>
Apple.<br>
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I tend to buy hardware I know (or at least think I know) will run Linux<br>
well, solves a lot of issues. Linux on good hardware sings and dances<br>
like Fred Astair and Ginger Rodgers.<br>
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And I had to check: My home media center is running a 1.5tb Seagate<br>
as Ext3 with bare (/dev/sda1) non-LVM style drives with no issues.<br>
It was running Mythbuntu, but I went back to straight Ubuntu 10.04 a<br>
while ago. It used to dual boot, but Linux's midi / sound software<br>
got good enough I no longer needed windows at all. It dual booted<br>
without issues, it no longer has Windows at all. My wife is still in<br>
Windows mode for some things, but is loving a Linux netbook for general<br>
use.. she is slowly converting.<br>
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Avast yelling "Virus database updated" may alone be a reason for the final<br>
swap once she is out of school (in 2 weeks, yahoo!).<br>
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Wouldn't be the first time a dos boot disk and "fdisk /mbr" fixed some<br>
boot weirdness.<br>
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