[ale] wireless card

[Jeff Hubbs]

I've gone the same route, and while I miss things like amarok and 
certain keyboard/mouse behavior, overall I'm happy and much of my 
Linux-type functionality is still here.


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. 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.
>
> On 9/27/07, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>   
>> Acer 5100 Turion X2 w/ 1GB RAM (upgradeable to 4GB RAM) with ATI Radeon
>> 1100 video, madwifi B/G wireless, Dual layer DVD burner 100GB hard drive
>> $500 at Walmart (evil store).
>>
>> Runs every Linux I've thrown at it except for the built-in web cam which
>> no one has hacked a driver for yet (that works).
>>
>> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 10:32 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
>>     
>>> I'm waiting until February to see if Apple releases new Macbook Pros.
>>> My Powerbook is a couple years old now, and I want a new one :)
>>>
>>> On 9/27/07, David Tomaschik <ozone at webgroup.org> wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Wow, that is crazy.  Yet another reason my next notebook will NOT be an HP.
>>>>         
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>>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
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