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I personally don't care about apple very much as a company and own a few of their products. My reasoning for it was simple:

1) I can't use Windows. I need to be able to open an actual terminal, so Windows has never really worked for me. I don't have anything against Windows or Windows users.

2) I've run a number of distributions on my laptop from Gentoo and Slackware to Ubuntu and Redhat (I stopped before Fedora). I've never gotten good battery life, even on the most custom kernels and running only fluxbox, a shell and a web browser.

I need a web browser, a terminal, and a music player from a computer and good battery life. Apple/OS X does it for me, but I don't fall into the fangirl category and stay up waiting for a new iAnything to be released nor do I rag on them.

Is there a place for people who just use what works best for them?




Yeah, the battery life thing is a real killer. My work computer is a sony vaio running linux. I like it well enough but it only gets 2.5 hours on a new battery! It's far and away the biggest drawback of this computer.


You have written almost everything I would have written except another thing I need: decent fonts.

Rumor has it that the recent Ubuntu has some better fonts, but 5 years ago the Linux fonts were really bad compared to the OSX (or even Windows) fonts.

Given how much time I spend in the browser nowadays, if they could/would move Adium, Skype, NetBeans and a terminal in there, I would just switch to a Chrome OS device.




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