[ale] wireless card

[William Fragakis]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:22 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Going slightly off-topic, I've taken to liking OS X for every day
> computing. When I decided to give OS X a try, by buying a Powerbook
> with a student loan, I had a basic requirement. The laptop needs to
> "just work." I don't want to fool with suspend2 (and it doesn't work
> well if my Arch Linux machine is any indication), extremely limited
> software selection, et al. When I say limited software selection, I
> mean stuff like Office and education software. 
Admittedly, it's the older Mac Office 03 but my son vastly prefers to
use OpenOffice vs Office on the Mac for his (high)school work. Our OSX
Powerbook gets used less and less for everyday computing by the two kids
in the house.

regards,
William
(mac user since OS 6.0.something)
> Sure, a majority of my
> classes use Maple and Matlab, which have Linux ports, but I do need
> Office and other such things from time to time. Fooling with wine, or
> some derivative, doesn't fall into the "just works" category.
> 
> With OS X I have a cohesive desktop environment on top of a standard
> Unix base. It really is the best of both worlds, in my opinion.
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