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Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop

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224 points cspags | 1 comments | 01 Dec 25 01:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.325s | source
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barfoure ◴[07 Dec 25 04:53 UTC] No.46179255[source]▶
George is probably too young to remember when we thought OS X was hot shit because it was UNIX compliant. That meant a lot back then.

However over the years they dropped the ball big time. Arch may be the new hotness but BSD was the once (and hopefully future) king.

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1. linguae ◴[07 Dec 25 06:14 UTC] No.46179556[source]▶
Having an iBook or a PowerBook with Mac OS X was a big deal at a time when driver support for Linux was less commonplace than it is today. Even today there are driver issues with Linux on some laptops.

Part of the reason I bought a Core Duo MacBook the summer after my freshman year of college was because Apple was the only vendor I knew where I could purchase a fully-supported Unix laptop. It could also run Microsoft Office without having to dual-boot with Windows, though ironically I ended up just using NeoOffice (a Mac fork of OpenOffice), the Apple iWork suite, and LaTeX during my college years.