[ILUG] Linux and Macs

[Kevin Philp]

Gareth 'bigbro' Eason wrote:
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> On 09/03/10 14:52, Kevin Philp wrote:
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>> the future. I was going to set up Samba for the Windows users but I am
>> now thinking I won't need to bother if Windows is going away. They are
>> all techno-phobes and just want to type, email and make pretty
>> presentations. I will need to integrate the laptops into the network one
>> way or other over the next couple of months, the Mac may be an easier
>> option - I am thinking of encouraging this Mac mania!
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> 	While I find OpenOffice 'Presentation' excellent, I find Keynote on a
> Mac makes the prettiest presentation for given amount of effort. It's
> also a pleasure to present from, given any Mac laptop will understand
> the concept of the laptop screen being different to the external display
> (projector) and will give a presenter's screen on the internal display
> showing the timing and the next slide - this is incredibly useful for
> anyone giving presentations.
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> 	Re everything else, a Mac will do things roughly equivalently well to a
> (say) Linux laptop. I'm personally more productive for general work
> tasks on Linux, but that's a feature of practice and experience rather
> than Linux being innately faster or better in any way. If doing
> multimedia, Mac is 'yer only man' (though Linux does a fine job on many
> things now.)
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> 	For laptops that just work, it's hard to beat an Apple. And you can
> always run Linux either natively or in a VM on a Macbook :)
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> 	Best regards,
> 	-->Gar
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Thanks for all the comments. We will try the Mac and see how it goes.

Kevin.