[OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 04:15:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> 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.  :-)


	Well, considering that they asked us (and NetBSD) for clues when
	they were porting OSX, it didn't seem like my post was *that*
	far Off! maybe a tiny bit.  

	Anyway, thanks to everybody who replied onlist and off.  

	gary


> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
> PS: #include <std/disclaimer.h>
> 

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