[ug-bosug] You thoughts on OpenSolaris and MacBook Pro

[Manish Chakravarty]

Thanks for the info Sriram.

Tell me if I am stepping on the line here, but would I get one if I
join TW? That would spare me from buying one (and sinking into credit
card hell)

I know I am entering from personal to professional domain.

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Manish Chakravarty
>  <manishchaks at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Hi Sriram,
>  >
>  >  I am in need of a more powerful laptop.
>  >  I will be giving this one (the acer aspire 2920) to my mom for her use
>  >  (basic email, chatting, photos etc) when I go home next week.
>  >  I plan to purchase a MacbookPro when I come back; I plan to burn all my
>  >  credit cards (I am unemployed right now :) ) to get an MBP.
>  >  I recall you had managed to install some Nevada build on it.
>  >
>
>  >  How was your experience on it?
>  >  Were you able to scroll and right click using multi-tap as in OSX? Did
>  >  wireless etc work out of the box?
>  >  Which build of Nevada did you use?
>
>  I tried build 81.
>  Out of the box: Video.
>
>  Drivers needed for : Wireless and Ethernet
>
>  What didn't work : audio.
>
>  What I didn't try yet: usb camera
>
>  What I know won't work right now: bluetooth.
>
>
>  >
>  >  Could you please share your experience with it?
>  >
>
>  I'm going to follow this thread with build 86 (which I'm about to burn
>  onto a DVD next).
>
>  http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=56995&tstart=15
>
>  I'll write in with my review on this tomorrow.
>
>  -- Ram
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Manish Chakravarty
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