From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 23:15:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A99161065673 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:15:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F4088FC08 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:15:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay12.apple.com (relay12.apple.com [17.128.113.53]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C049374C7B1; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay12.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay12.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 46E3F464010; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 11807135-a6df3bb000001321-95-489b82125c97 Received: from cswiger1.apple.com (cswiger1.apple.com [17.227.140.124]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay12.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 2CE40420007; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <367CE1DD-F026-407C-819F-4A190B7F6716@mac.com> From: Chuck Swiger To: Gary Kline In-Reply-To: <20080807224226.GA45445@thought.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:15:30 -0700 References: <20080807224226.GA45445@thought.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: [OT] Re: apple mac laptop. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:15:30 -0000 On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. > amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for > some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:} > > Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an online Mac > laptop, please drop a line. Well, students, teachers, and so forth can get about a 10% discount via the Apple Education stores: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/education_routing/ (And yes, while one can run FreeBSD just fine on a Macbook, Sahil is right that the question is off-topic for these lists. :-) Regards, -- -Chuck PS: #include