Jasjeet Sekhon benchmarked Linux and MacOS X on the MacBook Pro using his statistical software, and finds that "Linux is found to be much faster than Apple's OS X for statistical computing. For example, in one benchmark Linux is more than twice as fast." Earlier, he ran tests on a G5 and an Opteron, and conlcuded: "Those results were terrible for OS X and not particularly good for the G5 (970) chip. For example, my 2.7 pound Pentium-M Linux laptop is faster than my 44 pound G5 running OS X. The floating point performance of the 970 chip leaves much to be desired, but OS X makes the performance problem significantly worse."
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Member since:2006-01-03
Why would I want to buy a card when I have internal wireless? That is a waste of money? You may make enough that it doesn't matter but not me.
As far as peripherals...it is much easier to find out if something works with OSX than Linux.
Also name one PC manufacturer that *pushes* Linux on the desktop. I can name them...er none.
Member since:2006-04-21
Why would I want to buy a card when I have internal wireless? That is a waste of money? You may make enough that it doesn't matter but not me.
Actually, it was cheaper than buying a laptop with a supported internal card, because all those were much more expensive.
As far as peripherals...it is much easier to find out if something works with OSX than Linux.
I wouldn't know about that, as I've never used OS X and have no interest in doing so. Apple would be a much more expensive option for me. Not only is Apple hardware more expensive anyway, but for a laptop that costs (say) $US600, Apple UK would charge around £UK600, when an equivalent price would be around £300-400 depending on exchange rate.
Also name one PC manufacturer that *pushes* Linux on the desktop. I can name them...er none.
Which isn't a whole lot less than the single vendor which pushes OS X on the desktop.
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2006-04-21
For those purposes, shame you weren't using a Windows laptop. On mine, SUSE Linux works fine for everything except Bluetooth (which I haven't tried) and the internal wireless card. The second problem was easily fixed by using a D-Link G650 Cardbus card. At the bottom of the article, meanwhile, you will see a link to a Linux user's review of the Mac. His claims are that although peripheral support *does* just work, that's only for certain devices; if it doesn't, there's *no way* to get it to work.
Apart from having to plug in the Wireless card, yes, in SUSE Linux 10 on my laptop, everything *does* just work.