MacBook Pro Versus Dell Ubuntu
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| As for the latter question, I configured a Dell Ubuntu machine as close as I
| could to the base MacBook Pro to see what the premium was to use a MacBook.
| According to my calculations, I would pay approximately $623 more for the
| right to use a MacBook Pro or $673 more to use a MacBook Pro with a TextMate
| license. TextMate is a very nice IDE, but is it worth almost $700 for
| somebody who just does Rails development? For those people like Wynn who do
| design work on top of application development, the premium makes sense. But
| for those of us who just code, surf the web, and do the occasional blog post,
| I find the cost hard to justify.
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http://www.locomotivation.com/comments/macbook_pro_versus_dell_ubuntu/
Related:
[Opinion] Switch to Linux? No. Get a Mac Clone.
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| I'm a marketing guy, and I look at everything in my world from a marketing
| perspective. From that perspective I think this whole "Switch to Linux"
| thing is unnecessarily hard work - so I take an easier approach to help
| people move in that direction.
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| And to finish this article, Kudos to Linux. I get two reactions when
| people look at the desktop on my Laptop and Desktop. One is.. "Er.. is
| that a Mac?" and the other is "Why don't you just buy a Mac?". Well
| kudos is due, because I don't NEED to buy a Mac. I can get the Mac
| look and feel, which I like, and the massive productivity boost of
| the desktop cube ( and enjoyable extras ) even on my three year
| old HP laptop.
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http://linuxscorecard.blogspot.com/2007/03/switch-to-linux-no-get-mac-clone.html
http://tinyurl.com/3bsk5l
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