Personal computing discussed
captaintrav wrote:just brew it! wrote:The MacBook Pro I use for work seems sturdy enough. I still prefer my EliteBook though, because the keyboard is more "normal" and I can run Linux on it natively.
Not to derail the topic, but you can't run Linux on a MacBook?
Phaleron wrote:I've got an old Core 2 Duo ULV laptop at 1.4Ghz, 4GB ram, 180GB SSD. When it comes to streaming content it can lag quite a bit using Chrome, Opera, or Firefox. The fix? It's weird but when I run Netflix, youtube, etc. on Edge it all works fine - so that's what I do. Wired or wireless doesn't seem to matter.
just brew it! wrote:captaintrav wrote:just brew it! wrote:The MacBook Pro I use for work seems sturdy enough. I still prefer my EliteBook though, because the keyboard is more "normal" and I can run Linux on it natively.
Not to derail the topic, but you can't run Linux on a MacBook?
Well, in theory I probably could. But: 1) Running something other than our corporate OS X image on my primary device is going to result in additional headaches (both technical and bureaucratic); 2) switching OSes doesn't fix the keyboard; and 3) running Linux natively would probably negate one of the two things I actually *like* about the MBP, namely the battery life (the other one being the Retina display).
Running Linux under VirtualBox seems to work well enough (provided I remember to take the VM out of full-screen mode before disconnecting the external monitor) that I'm not willing to tangle with issue #1 above.
captaintrav wrote:Ah, ok, I was just curious if there was some way Apple locked you out of booting into another OS, which I would find annoying since there was even PPC versions of Linux you could run back in the day.
kvndoom wrote:Hey I'll take sturdy over thin any day.
End User wrote:kvndoom wrote:Hey I'll take sturdy over thin any day.
I'll take sturdy and thin.
Glorious wrote:I'm guessing we should dive his dumpster, it seems he throws out like 10k worth of perfectly viable gear per year.
JBI wrote:Yeah, no kidding. The off-lease EliteBook 8460p was even a bit of a splurge, especially given that I upgraded the RAM and swapped out the HDD for an SSD!
Glorious wrote:I'm guessing we should dive his dumpster, it seems he throws out like 10k worth of perfectly viable gear per year.
captaintrav wrote:My best laptop is a ThinkPad T61, OPs would be a great upgrade! I wonder how many people are running a Core2 Duo with an SSD, though - it's surprisingly usable.
ludi wrote:Got any pointers?
captaintrav wrote:My best laptop is a ThinkPad T61, OPs would be a great upgrade! I wonder how many people are running a Core2 Duo with an SSD, though - it's surprisingly usable.