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From: Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linus rant on HFS+
Date: 22 Feb 2015 18:38:53 GMT
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On 2015-02-22, android <here@there.was> wrote:
> In article <cktnuuF7a8eU2@mid.individual.net>,
>  Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-02-22, android <here@there.was> wrote:
>> > In article <mc83jk$orj$1@dont-email.me>,
>> >  Electric Comet <electric-comet@mail.invalid> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 29 Jan 2015 10:47:36 GMT
>> >> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Sufficiently so that I bought one. Although I am hovering on the
>> >> > threshold between between keeping it on MacOS for the automatic
>> >> > updates & having someone else do the support and ditching MacOS for
>> >> > Linux because I prefer it.
>> >> 
>> >> Are there firmware updates you would miss going to linux?
>> >> Why not run macos in a vm
>> >> 
>> > You get a Mac because you can install software on it that's not 
>> > available for Linux... 
>> 
>> Actually, I got an Air because I needed a laptop and I loved the hardware.
>> The O/S is OK, I guess, but only because there's an 'almost-Unix' hiding
>> underneath.  If it wasn't for that, it would have had Linux on it like a shot.
>
> No need to tell you that you can get a Windows portable for less than 
> USD 180... 
> http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-2487/index.html#1

Not interested. I have a Windows laptop provided by work. That's why I
wanted one that *I* chose.

And I can afford the Air, especially since it was 2nd hand on eBay.


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