<div>There are laptop discounts if your an Intel employee. I've looked into it. If you want the link search "discount" or some such from circuit.</div>
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<div>We do have an apple discount, but from what I found it isn't really that much, and if you know a teacher, they could get a better one.<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/13/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">mark gross</b> <<a href="mailto:markgross@thegnar.org">markgross@thegnar.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:23:19PM -0700, Cameron Adamez wrote:<br>><br>> > What is the primary use? Are you the type of Mac user that likes to pull<br>
> > up<br>> > a terminal window and poke at things or do you just want the standard<br>> > application and are happy?<br>><br>> Well, I have two modes for myself - work mode and etc mode. My previous<br>
> laptop (an iBook G3 that went horribly awry after the backlight died) was<br>> used for web dev projects, so I used Coda and terminal windows. In fact,<br>> Coda works really well on a G3 because I constantly harassed Tim at Panic<br>
> Inc about the bugs and he ironed them out for me :) So while most of the<br>> time I'm poking at things in the terminal, I also like to be lazy<br>> occasionally and watch Doctor Who. The only Mac program I really need is<br>
> Photoshop, and I guess I could use Gimp... :/<br>> A side note - I'm really used to the Mac's IME, Kotoeri, so while I was<br>> contemplating having the laptop run Debian (which I've used before),<br>
> Gentoo, or FreeBSD, I would need to figure out how you use their IME.<br>><br>> I wonder what else my Intel "discount" is good for...<br><br>I've only been able to get deals on boxed processors and MoBo's. I've<br>
not figured out how to use it to get a laptop yet.<br><br>--mgross<br><br>><br>><br>> > I will loan you my g3 if you are just needing something now.<br>><br>> Actually, if any of you don't mind parting with your laptop for an hour or<br>
> so at the next Dorkbot meeting, that would help. I need to update my site<br>> and the library computers don't run SSH. (Job-hunting time.)<br>><br>> Camo<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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