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I've started to travel more and as I do I need a laptop that can keep up with me and is ASAP (as small as possible). I stopped to take a look at the latest offerings (short of the up-and-coming handtops) and came across a Sony 10" laptop and a Mac 12" Powerbook... I'm leaning towards the Powerbook as I'm getting tired of tweaking a distro to support all types of weird laptop hardware.
Hardware speaking I'm not too demanding, WiFi, Ethernet, and USB 2 are all I really want, not a CDRW, not a DVDR, not even a huge graphics card (it's a 12" inch screen, not prime for UT2K4). Any modern laptop can easily meet these demands.
On the software side it gets a little shakier as I'm not too familiar with Mac-of-late (last time I used one was a PowerPC in 1997). I use alot of linux software for documents, presentations, network (browser, xchat, gaim, ssh, etc), and software development (mostly C and GTK).
With the research I've done I see OpenOffice is on Mac OSX, Xchat, safari, all are on MacOSX. But what about software development? I need to develop software (in C) for the x86 Linux platform, anyone with experience on Macs in this area? How difficult is it to build xplatform software? What about GTK libraries?
Any advice is welcome as I've always admired OSX (beautiful interface) and the laptop is the right size (I'd prefer a little smaller actually).
The Fink project provides a lot of the tools and programs you're used to using on a Linux system for OSX. Compilers, automake/unsermake, autoconf, editors...you name it. Even Gnome and KDE are available.
A friend of mine bought a 12" Powerbook just a couple of days ago. It's nice but the keyboard is a bit awkward to me. That's one of the things you get over pretty quickly though.
Moved: Not directly related to Linux but placing in the Laptop forum since your asking for suggestions, but it really should go in Other *nix's if OSX is the only OS mentioned.
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