Good Timing

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April 19th, 2004 by Kelson. Posted in Apple, Linux, Powering Up

Sometime early last year I decided I’d like to get a PowerBook. Ideally, one dual-booting Mac OS and Linux. I spent several months saying “I don’t really need a laptop,” but I really started to like the idea after a while, and Katie started to like the idea too, and this January I went so far as to contact TerraSoft Solutions about pricing. TerraSoft maintains their own PPC Linux distribution, Yellow Dog Linux, and their stock in trade is selling Macs preconfigured to dual-boot Mac OS and Linux.

I decided not to buy one then for two reasons: We had the wedding coming up, and I figured Apple was likely to upgrade the line by summer.

Well, the wedding is next weekend, and Apple has just announced upgrades to the PowerBook line.

It may be time to start looking at PowerBooks again.

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Anonymous says:

April 23, 2004 at 3:04 PM

I’m surprised that Powerbooks and iBooks are outstripping G5 desktops. Weird.

A lot of the guys at work have OSX and Yellow dog on their personal machines. It seems to be a hit. The only person I know to bitch about dual boot, has RedHat I believe.

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Stacy says:

April 23, 2004 at 3:06 PM

The above belongs to me. Gideon just tore through a curtain and I was a wee bit distracted.

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K-Squared Ramblings says:

April 27, 2004 at 9:26 PM

Power on its way
Last night’s mutual cyber-binge after only two days away from the keyboard was the kicker: If we’re going anywhere for two weeks, we’ll want to bring a computer along.

And so tonight I finally ordered a dual-boot PowerBook from TerraSoft. …