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Why do you wish you went with the System76 model (I'm considering both right now)?

• nostrademons 16y ago
  I found that pretty much the only applications I use on the Mac are Terminal, Macvim, Chrome, VLC, and BitTorrent, all of which are just as good or better on Linux. Plus, I like to play around with advanced programming languages and other command-line only programs, and usually the apt-get packages are a bit stabler and more problem-free than the MacPorts ones. I'm perfectly familiar with Ubuntu - I use it at work - so the usability/eye-candy benefits of a Mac don't apply to me. In fact, I found it harder to get used to and learn a whole new set of keyboard shortcuts, because I'm so used to Linux. If I'm just going to use it like a Linux machine, I might as well pay half the price and get a real Linux machine. The Mac does have some nice points. Two-finger scroll is great, as is the magnetic attachment for the power cord (I can't count the number of times I've tripped over that). The battery life is significantly better. I can get more & better games for the Mac than for Linux. But the screen on the Pangolin is better, and for half the price, I think I'd end up liking that more than all the little fit & finish on the Mac. Plus, the Mac had a firmware bug when I bought it (thankfully been fixed since) that randomly would lock up the computer for 30 seconds at a time. Not impressed, Apple.