From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 06:19:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05CDB1065670 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 06:19:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47D58FC13 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 06:19:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m786JqC1076274; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:19:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:19:34 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20080808061934.GC57877@thought.org> References: <20080807224226.GA45445@thought.org> <367CE1DD-F026-407C-819F-4A190B7F6716@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <367CE1DD-F026-407C-819F-4A190B7F6716@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:19:38 -0000 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 > -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org