[NCLUG] Desire suggestions for college laptop

[Paul Wehr]

>At 2:46 PM -0600 23/06/2005, BJ Tiemessen wrote:
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>Unfortunately many of the programs used in a college environment 
>only run on Windoze so this ruled out the Apple iBook.
>><snip>
>>BJ
>
>BJ,
>
>Would you please elaborate on this point and provide a sense as to 
>the names of some of the *many* programs.
>
>Best regards,
>Joseph

Indeed, please elaborate. Certainly there are multiple programs that 
run on Linux that suffice for most general-studies programs at the 
university level. For that matter many (no cost programs) that run on 
Mac OS X that can masquerade as Windoze programs, not counting M$ 
(cost programs) that--well--behave as Windoze programs.

I know of only too many programs, specifically programmed to work in 
the M$ environment, that simply _don't_ work. I don't have any faith 
in programmers using the M$ environment or the M$ (make a quick buck) 
environment itself. I'm thinking here of the databases put together 
by huge database companies. "You'll be up and running in a year," 
pronounced five years ago and they are still working on it.

Paul