Finally a new computer
So as computer geeks go I’ve bought very few computers in my life. In fact I’ve only bought one new computer. And this purchase just took place, a brand-new Powerbook G4 12″. All the other computers I’ve had over the years were either employers or old used machines I picked up on ebay. Needless to say I’m very excited.
The reason I went with a powerbook is that it was one of the cheapest 12″ laptops I could buy (yep, you heard me right the mac was cheapest). In addition to the price factor I also knew from various postings on the web that ubuntu would install cleanly on this machine. I just got the machine this weekend and decided to run with OSX for a bit and see if I could actually make it my daily driver operating system. So far my only complaints iinvolve mounting NFS shares using the finder. I seem to have much better luck mounting them using the command line.
I suspect though by next weekend ubuntu will be installed on the machine. Hopfully that doesn’t take all weekend.