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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by alnayyir on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:06PM (#434279)
I've been poking around a cheap Thinkpad on Craigslist.

I didn't know the situation was that hairy with the ports on mac os x. From the way others spoke of macports and fink, it had that same apple 'just works' going on.

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Re:Laptop of choice for a Programmer, Need Help by aposteriori on Sunday February 15, 2009 @06:38AM (#481911)
Fink/ports work enough, but like I said it doesn't integrate with the OS like on Debian/Ubuntu. I've already mentioned the issue of clashing versions (gcc from Fink vs from Apple, etc.)

But OS X is nice, if only Ubuntu and Linux in general had the drivers, the overall polish, better menus (System Preferences on OS X are nice, on gnome they are a dog's breakfast) and dropped the ugly brown theme...

I think I'll stick to Mac laptops and Linux desktops and enjoy the best of both worlds :)

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