had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop

[Jay Vaughan]

I'm very content with my DELL vostro laptop, btw. Cheap and very usable with Ubuntu (gnome3) ..

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On Aug 1, 2011, at 22:49, Gert van Santen <g.vansanten at chello.nl> wrote:

> Op 1-8-2011 22:07, Paul Maddox schreef:
>> Guys,
>> 
>>  My mac is now really pissing me off, the new MIDI interface keeps
>> dropping bytes and misbehaving. The machine sometimes recognises
>> external drives in some windows but not others and the whole web
>> browser just sucks ass. no way in hell I'm ugrading to the latest OS.
>> 
>>  So I'm after some advice..... I want a new laptop and new OS, here's
>> what I need ;
>> 
>> 1) AVR Tool C Compiler and programmer, don't care what compiler, I'm
>> happy with GCC for the AVR aslong as the IDE usable)
>> 2) AVR Assembler, again, don't what or how, as long as I can edit
>> text, assemble it and program it
>> 3) Must support Eagle
>> 4) Must have "drop box" available for it.
>> 5) Must have LONG battery life i.e. more than 8 hours
>> 6) needs to be portable (13" screen is big enough, 15" is too big).
>> 7) Needs at least 2 USB ports, ideally 4
>> 8) Needs an "office" type suite that supports .docx and .doc
>> 9) Needs a PDF creator
>> 10) when I close the lid, I want it to suspend, when I open it, I want
>> it to restart... don't wanna screw around pressing "start, shutdown,
>> suspend".
>> 
>> it doesn't need super fast CPU or wizzy graphics, this is for coding
>> and drawing schematics.
>> 
>> i'm totally open to OS, windows7/ubuntu/whatever and machine.
>> 
>> Willing to pay up to 800 quid, but would prefer to pay less than 500.
> 
> Is it possible/would you consider installing windows 7 on your 
> Mac hardware? I have it as a part of a double install on my MBP, 
> and it works very well...
> 
> Gert
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