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I run Debian and XMonad on a Macbook Pro with 16GB of memory. Nice machine. I guess it would still dual boot to OSX, but I haven't tried for more than a year.
by tom_b 10y ago
I run Debian and XMonad on a Macbook Pro with 16GB of memory. Nice machine. I guess it would still dual boot to OSX, but I haven't tried for more than a year.
- soperj 10y agoPay out the ass for 4 year old hardware?
- tom_b 10y agoNo, not really. When my purchase was made, the Macbook Pro had the nicest screen and form factor with 16GB of memory. I debated the Carbon X1 at the time, but I recall it was limited to 8GB of memory. I regularly work with Java-based ETL tools and datasets that spill out of 8GB, so having 16GB was important. I could have gotten more memory if I wanted a bigger form factor but I really didn't want to lug a "workstation replacement" around. A couple of years ago I said if the Macbook lasted as long as my Thinkpad X200 did (4-5 years), it would be a reasonable purchase. If I was buying today, I might just buy some type of large screen Chromebook and do everything on some cloud VM instance with even more memory.
- chirau 10y agoSo you would rather pay out the ass for the latest hardware... even if it does not allow you to install Linux?
- brokenmachine 10y agoHow about older hardware without the Apple tax, that does run Linux?
- CaptSpify 10y agoI do admit this is a fairly viable system, but I don't want to pay a ton of money, nor do I want to support apple.