A Window, An Apple or a Penquin?
You can by an Apple laptop for about $1000.00. You still need to purchase additional software to keep your internet journey safe and you have to spend big bucks for any hardware you want to add on. You make Steve Jobs a rich man.
Windows laptops run for anything from $300.00 and up. You still have to purchase or install a bunch of software to keep your internet journey safe and you have to spend a few hours daily making sure you didn’t get any unwanted shit from that journey. Most additional hardware you want to add will just work although you may need to search for and download some drivers. You make Bill Gates a rich man.
You can buy a Linux laptop for about $300.00 or $400.00 and up. You don’t have to add any additional software to keep your internet journey safe. Most hardware that you want to add just works without having to look for and download needed drivers. You don’t make Linus Torvalds rich. He gave it to you free.
Yes, my Mac laptop was more than my PC friends. I have spent less in the long run. It came with most of the software I will ever need already part of the OSX. I did add “Dragon for Mac” so I do not have to type. And no virus protection is needed. I added a printer (the drivers are all pre loaded on Macs)
It came with a built in mic and camera… A writing program and a movie making program and basic photo editing … So, yes. Linux is more secure and probably cheaper. It is also wildly intimidating to someone my age who never had a computer before… Kinda build your own as I hear? Is there a Linux laptop? I thought one downloaded Linux onto any computer?
Maybe I’m just weird in how I use my ‘puter, but I’ve never once had to search for or downlaod any drivers, they all came installed.
I like the idea of open source OS, but Linux’s fracturing (Ubantu, Xubantu, Debian, Debian XFCE, Puppy, RedHat, Gentoo, Arch Linux and Slackware —just to name a few—all lack the ability to use Adobe Flash 10 (any version for that matter) in a clean and stable mounting, nor does the Linux folks like the antithesis of open source—DRM (Digital Rights Management) and so providers of DRM content like Netflix and all the rest of the subscription streaming delivery are only accessible to Linux Based machines that have dual boot Linux/Windows or Linux/OSx(Apple) set-ups which means the original reason for going open source (to escape Bill Gates and Steve Jobs bony fingers into your wallet)is nullified.
Flash 10 is ubiquitous nowadays on the internet and will soon render Windows, Osx and Linux irrelevant because of the future of the internet will turn content delivery based coding and Google is positioned to dominate (thus the bold challenge of the direct frontal attack against FaceBook (with Google Plus)— just as FaceBook is preparing to go public with an IPO…
The paradigm of the internets is about to shift….
I have extra tinfoil hats (comment unrelated to blog)
Still inexperienced with Linux, Mr Sawyer… I have to say though judging by what you’ve written in the entry it does sound mighty attractive. If I ever start laptopping it I might give it a shot.
I rather buy them in parts and put them together. The down side for me is if I didn’t have an operating sytem, that will have set me back about $300, depending on what version of windows I want to buy. I don’t know if they give you a recovery disk when you buy a computer from the store. Plus you never know what kind of motherboard a pre assemble computer migh have inside. Plus brand computers give you a lot of software that either expires in 30 or 60 days or is compeltely useless.
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