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Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2012 15:38

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steve of oxford wrote: Now have Office for Mac on it. Ha this thing rocks!

Should have bought one years ago. Now I don't know what to do with my old Toshiba, which by comparison is a goliath.
Run linux on it. It will suddenly become fast and responsive once that Windoze thing is removed.

I used to have mint on it for years without any trouble Jonathan, but following a hard drive failure I found distros no longer had drivers for it, so back to xp.

Main comp is an abit board P4 HT 2.8G, in RAID 0 with two matched Hitachi 500G drives. Pretty fast for it's age, and dead reliable.

But for portable and general use this Macbook takes the crown. Particularly impressed with the power consumption.

Posted: Sat Jul 14th, 2012 17:08

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Something like Ubuntu has loads of drivers but it is difficult actually identifying which ones you need.

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Posted: Sun Jul 15th, 2012 01:29

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Something like Ubuntu has loads of drivers but it is difficult actually identifying which ones you need.

I spent ages on the Linux Toshiba driver issue, but concluded that Ubuntu basically had left the laptop hardware behind.

I eventually reinstalled the original mint 6 that worked well, but got sick and tired of failed to fetch errors.....same for all the ubuntu distros I tried.

Funny thing is when I went back to XP pro, it didn't seem to get clobbered with viruses like it used to.

Not to worry, it'll do as a spare even if it is big & fat (more like a portable desktop than a laptop)

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