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Macbook air 13", just uninstall Mac OS and install Ubuntu. I switched from PC Laptop to Mac and will never look back. OS aside, the hardware is phenomenal, easi
by nnnnnn 14y ago
Macbook air 13", just uninstall Mac OS and install Ubuntu. I switched from PC Laptop to Mac and will never look back. OS aside, the hardware is phenomenal, easily the best hardware on the market. The ultrabooks are catching up but they're still nowhere near the air.
I've been doing all my dev work on here and have been impressed with the snapiness of the processor and SSD.
Good luck!
- ziziyO 14y agoI wouldn't say easily the best hardware in the market. The zenbook prime outclasses it in raw power, though the touchpad gets bad reviews. I'd also give OSX a fair shot if you buy a Macbook Air. Most of your linux tools are available for it.
- jessedhillon 14y agoMost of your linux tools are available for it. Basic tools are available, like 'ls' and 'grep'. Getting anything a little less popular requires what I would term "jumping through hoops," as is the case with many Python dependencies I've encountered. It's especially horrible if the thing needs to be compiled. For a platform where the hardware always conforms to one of a set of fixed profiles, it's bizarre that there isn't a binary package manager for these things.
- betageek 14y agoMay have been true on the past but Homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew) has improved the situation immensely
- vineel 14y agoI've made the switch and haven't looked back. Anything I needed from Linux, I've found in OS X somewhere.
- riffraff 14y agoFYI, macports has supported binary packages for a while
- alaaibrahim 14y agoWell that depends on how much attached you are to GNU tools, as OSX provides the BSD versions. I've been using OSX for 3 years now, and I still ssh to a linux box to do date calculations with date $ date -d "next sun" $ date -d "+3 years +2 months +3 hours -15 min"
- ziziyO 14y ago% brew install coreutils All commands have been installed with the prefix 'g'. % gdate -d "next sun" Sun Dec 9 00:00:00 CST 2012 Hope this makes your day.
- eshvk 14y ago> it's bizarre that there isn't a binary package manager for these things. There are three! * Fink * Macports * Homebrew There are countless articles on the internet on which one is better than the other. The summary is that it depends on how closely you want the environment to look like Linux.
- hollerith 14y agoMacports installs everything from source. That is, it is not a binary package manager.
- taligent 14y agoYeh no. I am actually deploying onto OSX Server and have had to install countless Python modules for Munin alone. It is just the same as on Linux especially with pip.
- nnnnnn 14y agoFair point. To clarify, I meant build quality more so than power of internals (though the internals are nice too!).