On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:30 -0500, Benjamin Gramlich wrote: > Personally, I would stay away from Macbooks. My iBook G4 just went dead, > and I had already had major work done on it a year ago. A friend of mine > has had to have her iBook replaced with a Macbook and has now had to > return that Macbook to apple for repairs. Opening up a macintosh laptop > you see shoddy workmanship and wires that have cut sheathing. But this > is just anecdotal experience, from a couple of users. > > Since my iBook just died, I, too, am in the market for a laptop. I'm > pretty convinced that Sony is the way to go. I've owned a Vaio before > and it never caused me any problems. Though I am still researching the > issue. > > Benjamin > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:11 -0500, Tim Wilson wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2007, at 11:44 AM, John Meier wrote: > > > > > As I'd like to be able to switch to any OS depending on client, I am > > > leaning toward a Mac book pro - 17 inch (and will probably get the max > > > amount of memory right off the bat). I would use bootcamp or > > > Parallels Desktop for Mac for OS selection - Parallels Desktop really > > > caught my eye.... > > > > I use a 15" MacBook Pro all the time and the only thing I'll add is > > that I prefer Parallels to BootCamp. If you don't need 3D > > acceleration (I'm not a gamer) then Parallels will do everything you > > need. And the Parallels developers have been talking about improving > > the 3D performance in future versions. > > > > My MBP runs Ubuntu very well. I have 2 GB RAM and I've even had OS X, > > Windows XP, and Ubuntu all running simultaneously just for the heck > > of it. Switch into full-screen mode and you'd be hard-pressed to > > notice that you're running in a VM. > > > > -Tim > >