[ltp] Why do you love your ThinkPad?

[Tim Prince]

Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:38:15PM -0700, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
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>>I love my ThinkPad. Hopefully I'll be able to afford a pre-Lenovo Pentium M 
>>ThinkPad in a couple more years. Then again, Apple's announcement of Macs 
>>with Intel Inside (R) makes the future look pretty wild. MacOS X, x86 Linux 
>>and Windows on the same laptop? Sounds like heaven to me. Where do I sign 
>>up???? ^_^
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>Apple plans to ship a new Mac with Intel processor yes, but they've 
>already announced that this new cpu won't be compatible with other 
>Intel platforms. They really suck, what you describe won't be 
>possible, I'm afraid.
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Probably just enough differences to make it require a Mac-compatible 
linux rather than a TP style linux.  Don't know if you're serious about 
the CPU not being compatible, but it sounds like they intend to make the 
system incompatible with Windows, mainly to prevent you from running the 
Mac OS on a generic laptop.  The biggest worry might be that with the 
Mac OS not being 64-bit compatible for the foreseeable future, the Mac 
hardware may not support any 64-bit OS.