There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh. [LWN.net]

There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh.

Posted Jun 8, 2005 22:46 UTC (Wed) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh. by jcm
Parent article: Yellow Dog Linux sticks with PowerPC

Good laptop makers? IBM, which has stated that the Thinkpad line of products will continue under Lenovo. We can just hope that they continue to stick to good quality.

I had the opportuniy recently to choose between IBM X40 and Apple Powerbook and because the wifi chip on the Apple was unsupported in Linux the IBM was chosen. So far the experience has been very good with perfect Linux support.

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There goes the only good reason to use a Macintosh.

Posted Jun 8, 2005 23:12 UTC (Wed) by jcm (subscriber, #18262) [Link]

My issue is more of not wanting an Intel (and by that I mean x86 for all intents and purposes) processor in my laptop - where do I go for a non-Intel laptop in future? There's Tadpole (which I've seriously considered - though I'm not so happy to hand over so much for their current line of kit) but - as we have established in this thread - there are few good alternatives left.

The hope is that Intel have something good up their sleve - like a superPowerPC (and Steve was just having a laugh or was replaced by aliens for his keynote - about as likely as one of us successfully mail ordering Bush some tasty after dinner pretzels to choke on) - but I have a nasty feeling that the cold face of reality is that Apple are going to use plain old (badly designed) x86.

I genuinely think that PowerPC is a better fundamental design. It's clean (64bit clean but also just plain clean as a design), the assembly is easy to learn in a day (and it actually makes some sense compared to Intel's) and it was clearly designed with scalability in mind from the get go.

Jon.