had enough of mac, looking for new OS and laptop

[ibi sum]

Btw it runs OSX too .. :)

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On Aug 2, 2011, at 9:07, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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