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Laurent Haug’s blog » Blog Archive » Another mac bites the dust — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:31:32 +0000

[…] bad luck, maybe it’s bad quality. Whatever it is the result is the same: 2 months after my last crash my mac went down again, losing one week of data and a day of work in the […]

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:55:25 +0000

I confirm Bebop comment, Ubuntu is very easy to install and very stable, however some drivers (specially wifi) are not yet available under this distribution…

By: Bebop

Bebop — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:18:57 +0000

Ubuntu is really easy to install but in my experience it was really hard to set up wifi/wpa connexions, but it’s probably because of the hardware as said above

By: Yoan

Yoan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:07:14 +0000

SSD stands for static RAM, so no HDD which are more fragile. the MacBook AIR should come with a 64GB SSD instead of the 80GB classical HDD, but it can be more expensive.

Ubuntu is damn easy to install, the point is to be sure that every single piece of hardware are supported. (http://hardware4linux.info/stats2/) Most of the linux distro are shipped on a Live CD so it’s easy to give ‘em a try.

By: Doris

Doris — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 12:01:47 +0000

had the same problems with mine. there was a whole bunch of MBPro going out between feb and may 2006 that had defect logic boards. mine was one of them, I checked serial numbers and all the broken ones where going out from the shanghai assembly line of apple….

apple never confirmed officially, of course, but my dealer was resonably fast to change logic board and DVD slot - 2 days. I stayed with the MBPro because of the dealer’s immediate positive reaction.

good luck with the preparation, sure everything’s work out ok. see you there!
doris.

By: laurent

laurent — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:58:29 +0000

I want to try Ubuntu, but isn’t it super hard to install?

What is a SSD btw?

By: Yoan

Yoan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:07:16 +0000

IBM Thinkpad are well known to be very resistant, ugly still but strong. And having a peecee doesn’t mean you have to use a lousy OS, there a plenty of funky alternatives and you keep the UNIX taste that OSX has. It really depends on what you’re doing with your laptop, I’m pretty sure that for the 80% of your time is really OS independant (surf, email, photos, music, video, …).

By: nippotam

nippotam — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:13:09 +0000

It’s a pity that the hardware broke so easily. May by a SSD will help next time. ;-)

By: Mark Jaroski

Mark Jaroski — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:21:11 +0000

Consider Ubuntu. It’s a lot less of a leap from Mac OS to Linux than from Mac OS to Windows.