had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop

[ibi sum]

For web, I'm using chrome on OSX and it is bloody wonderful. Beats Safari which is like, IE6 for Mac, by comparison.

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On Aug 1, 2011, at 22:07, Paul Maddox <paul.Maddox.mail-list at Synth.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> Paul
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