[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[Richard Bronosky]

I've vented on this very issue many times. I have been doing all my
work via SSH to Linux servers (ssh+screen+bash+vim+mysql all day
everyday) for so long I thought of myself as a "Linux guy"... until I
tried using a laptop. The entire GUI stack just drives me crazy. But,
it was trying to get a decent portable workstation that drove me to
give my ThinkPad back to my employer and ask for a MacBook Pro. I
can't wait until I can scrap the Mac forever. Until I can spend 75% of
my computing time doing my work and not trying to get my machine to
work, I'm a "Linux server guy" and a "Mac laptop guy". I hate that it
has to be that way!

.!# RichardBronosky #!.



On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Warning: This message contributes nothing helpful to the conversation.
>
> The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top
> 3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops
> issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems
> that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must
> say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.
>
> A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such
> easy? That would be OS X.
>