Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 26th May 2008 17:54 UTC
Ivan Krstic' critique of the One Laptop Per Child Project has made its ripples around the pond of the intertubes. Apart from the obvious part where it criticises a major project from an insider's point of view, it also had a few other remarks that caught people's attention - most notably the admission that despite his ability to do Linux kernel hacking, his main development laptop is a Macintosh running Mac OS X.
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2005-08-29
Good thing the majority of people are smart. That's why we never have idiots getting elected. By your standards the infinitesimal market share of linux on the desktop would make it terrible.
For anyone working 8 or 16 hours a day on a computer, little day to day comfort details can mean a lot. I don't really care if my computer could have been 500$ cheaper. I have been using my MacBookPro for the last two years and I am fairly sastisfied with it. Hardware-software integration brings a certain peace of mind over time which is pretty cool. It didn't burn, so I guess I was lucky. In the meantime my colleague with his Dell cries every day because Vista laptop changes his external display resolution everytime he connects it in the morning and my Kubuntu colleague never complains because he has got used to the idea that his computer is meant for programming (but still goes to the demo XP computer in the backroom to do tasks that would take him hours of configuration to do his box).
BTW, I don't see where you go the 90 days guarantee. That's the phone support. The standard guarantee is one year (three if you pay for the rather expensive AppleCare).