Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:19:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop. Message-ID: <20080808061934.GC57877@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <367CE1DD-F026-407C-819F-4A190B7F6716@mac.com> References: <20080807224226.GA45445@thought.org> <367CE1DD-F026-407C-819F-4A190B7F6716@mac.com>
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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:15:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> >My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple.
> >amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for
> >some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:}
> >
> >Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an online Mac
> >laptop, please drop a line.
>
> Well, students, teachers, and so forth can get about a 10% discount
> via the Apple Education stores:
>
> http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/education_routing/
>
> (And yes, while one can run FreeBSD just fine on a Macbook, Sahil is
> right that the question is off-topic for these lists. :-)
Well, considering that they asked us (and NetBSD) for clues when
they were porting OSX, it didn't seem like my post was *that*
far Off! maybe a tiny bit.
Anyway, thanks to everybody who replied onlist and off.
gary
>
> Regards,
> --
> -Chuck
>
> PS: #include <std/disclaimer.h>
>
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