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Lord C:
As most of you know, I'm a big fan of Ubuntu.
I'm also into Open Source Advocacy.

I hate dual-boot. It sucks. I like to leave my PC on 24/7, reboot occasionaly, but never turn off.

I totally love my Ubuntu, but I am a gamer.
I have played games on Ubuntu, but it's just a waste of expensive hardware tbh - Most games need WINE, which doesn't use the full potential of my nice system.

I installed Windows XP so I could play Neocron2 again (a game which doesn't work with Cedega/WINE), but I'm missing Ubuntu.

I'm also going to Uni in a couple of months, to do games programming/design, which means I'll need to be running Windows/OSX apps.

I need a new PC, I have specs in mind, but I'm still thinking of possibilities.

I could buy a mac, which would run my design/programming apps at uni, and/or Ubuntu, but not my games.

I could build my new PC, and use Windows :/ being able to design/program and game.

Or I could build a PC with Windows on for gaming, and a mac notepad for design/programming/ubuntu :)
But that would be expensive lol.

Or I could build the PC, as above, but also have a PC laptop with Ubuntu on it xD

Anyone know of cheap Mac notepads? (imacs, dmacs, cmacs w/e they're called lol) Places like eBuyer.com for eg, so I can compare the prices with PC notepads.

Lord C:
I'm not quite sure if the above post makes any sense.

But basically I want my games and Ubuntu, and pretty soon, I'm gunna need to design/programm (with Uni's chosen applications, not my OSS alternatives) too.

WMD:
The cheapest new Apple laptop is $1000 US.

If you go: http://www.macofalltrades.com , they have refurbished ones (only one cheap one right now, but they usually have more).  There's also powerbookguy.com.

bedouin:
You qualify for educational pricing at Apple, which could get you a new iBook for $899 with a vanilla CD-ROM without burning capabilities (this is not available as a consumer model).  For $949 you could get a model with a CD-RW.

However, I run OS X on an 800mhz G4 and an 800mhz G3 and find it to be perfectly fine.  A number of people have had positive experiences with refurbished models, and the 1 year warranty, and ability to extend it another two years with Applecare still exists.  I run Debian on a 400mhz G3 and it's snappy enough (it's actually not awful with OS X either).

There's actually one reason you may want to think of getting a G3 iBook: no PPC Linux distribution to date can support an Airport Extreme (801.11g) card, but it can support Airport (801.11b).  I'm pretty sure all G4 iBooks used Airport Extreme.  Since the iBooks lack PC card slots, your only wireless upgrade path in Linux involves USB dongles; D-Link and Linksys ones can be made to work, but it's by no means out of the box.

15" and 17" Powerbooks have PC card slots, so the situation isn't quite as complicated in Linux.  Really though, I kind of doubt you'll care about Linux much once using OS X for a while alongside something like Fink or Darwinports.

Orethrius:
...and if he does, he can always use VMware to run other systems.  That reminds me, is there a FOSS answer to VMware yet?  I can't remember whether we answered this already.

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