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struggle4progress

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2. I think your kid may be right -- especially if he can escape microsoft and put linux on his box

Reply to musiclawyer (Original post)

Wed Jun 20, 2012, 09:11 PM

Jun 2012

macs are grossly overpriced; their attitude towards incompatible connectors flat-out sux; and the latest macbooks seem impossible to upgrade yourself

i say this as a person who owns over five mac boxes of at least three different kinds

i like and use the macs i've got, but i'm not buying more -- from now on, i'm going the route of cheap machines with linux

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Help me convince my kid to get a macbook [View all] musiclawyer Jun 2012 OP

With a Mac running Parallels or VM Ware Fusion Windows emulation software rocktivity Jun 2012 #1

I think your kid may be right -- especially if he can escape microsoft and put linux on his box struggle4progress Jun 2012 #2

this PowerToThePeople Sep 2012 #9

Posted from my phone yesterday, I want to elaborate. PowerToThePeople Sep 2012 #11

Macs last forever NV Whino Jun 2012 #3

With an average of less than $100 per year on upgrades rocktivity Jun 2012 #4

+1 emulatorloo Jun 2012 #6

Get him what he wants. emulatorloo Jun 2012 #5

Bingo! 6502 Sep 2012 #7

Or get the MB, then wipe it sir pball Sep 2012 #8

What happened anyway??? winstars Sep 2012 #10

Tell him what I told my wife PD Turk Sep 2012 #12