Reading Joel’s long piece on the Windows Vista shutdown menu, which took 48 people a year to implement, had me thinking; the answer is pretty simple. It is three choices. Sleep, Restart and Shutdown. ala Mac OS X.
So all this recent switching from Mac to Linux has me wondering whether a switch from Windows to Mac is right for me. Maybe I too should jump Mac and head straight for Ubuntu from Windows. I’ve used Ubuntu a bit and was really impressed. That it is funded and started by a fellow South African just makes it better.
One point Cory makes is that you can get a small-form Lenovo ThinkPad T60p with a good deal more grunt for less than the MacBook or MacBook Pro I was thinking of getting. I love the design of the MacBook hardware itself rather than the Mac operating system but is it worth the extra pennies? The ThinkPad is a decent looking laptop too and apparently quite brilliant.
What do you reckon. Has Linux desktop’s time come in the form of Ubuntu and is a MacBook worth it?
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