Macbooks are nice, but some of the modern games can be very demanding so
you would really need a Macbook Pro. I would advise against that if you
are looking for good hardware support in Linux because there are so many
slightly different versions as they upgrade new parts of the hardware,
it is a bit of a gamble. On my 15" MBP, it was not yet supported by the
madwifi driver (this may have been fixed since) and there were also
problems with the sound... and some minor hacks were required to get
some of the other stuff working. Still, a great laptop and I've been
using Mac OS X ever since I got it.
It has to be said, around the €1,000 mark you could do a lot worse than
Dell.
James
Eoin Hennessy wrote:
> I've been running Gentoo on a 2nd Gen. Macbook (Core 2 Duo) for a few
> months. The hardware is very well supported, and by an entirely free
> stack, e.g. Intel graphics so no binary blobs courtesy of ATI, nVidia
> (and very good support in Xorg). Wifi (madwifi_ng), suspend/resume,
> audio, camera etc.. all worked with only minor hacking.
>> I dual-boot between OSX and Gentoo, but adding XP to the mix is
> straightforward. The only hitch might be that the Intel GPU won't cut
> it for gaming. That said, I have seen Halflife2 run very well on the
> Macbook.
>> I decided to go for the Macbook mainly because they're reasonably
> cheap, and known to be well supported by all major distributions,
> meaning endless support is readily available [0]. It seems to me that
> if you want assured, rock solid Linux support, the only other option
> is IBM/Lenovo but the price increases dramatically.
>> Eoin
>> [0] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Apple_MacBook>> On 7/2/07, ollie at eillo.org <ollie at eillo.org> wrote:
>>>> Hi Guys,
>> Im planning on buying a laptop. Spending about €1000 give or
>> atke a bit. I dont particularly care which brand it, though id prefer
>> to aviod DELL. It will need to dualboot windows and linux. Ill be
>> running Arch Linux which leans toward the DIY side of things so id
>> prefer one that has reasonably standard set of hardware thats not
>> going to break my heart trying to get everything working.
>>>> Im not fussy about hardaware in general, my only requirement is that
>> it has some kind of a gaming capable graphics card.
>>>> 1) I never had any huge problems getting ATI graphics cards to
>> run on my desktop box (though without 3d support). What is support
>> like for laptop cards, and if its not picked up automatically how
>> easy/difficult is it going to be if I have to do it manually. I
>> realize this varys between manufacturers and models , im really
>> looking for people opinions and in particular experiences.
>> 2) If you have a laptop that falls roughly in the category of
>> what im looking for id like to hear what your experience has been
>> like with that particular make/model. Notably if you would recommend
>> it or warn me away from it!
>>>> I have already searched the internet and there is a lot of
>> information out there but id like a few personal opinions /
>> experiences before I buy.
>>>> BTW: Gaming will be on windows so full graphics support on Linux is
>> desirabel but not essential.
>>>> - Oliver
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