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Subject: Re: Laptops & FreeBSD? 
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To: "Steve (CK)" <toen0013@tc.umn.edu>
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On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 23:35 US/Pacific, Steve (CK) wrote:

> My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the 
> prohibitive
> cost has me second-guessing that option.  Maybe if the new IBM PPC 
> chips
> were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this
> option but the speed and cost issue makes me not want to do this.

???  Have you looked at the Apple store with educational discount?  You 
can get a very nice 800MHz iBook with 14" display for an excellent 
price.

OS X makes a superb laptop OS - the power management is great, you can 
run Office.X if you need the compatibility, Virtual PC pretty much 
takes care of the dual-boot issue, and to connect to Windows machines 
Microsoft has released a very nice Remote Desktop Client.

KeS


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