Originally Posted By: mlord
And since it doesn't include a free copy of WinXP, it is permitted to have a decent screen with decent resolution!

There was a "workaround" for those restrictions -- get one that came with a free copy of Win7 Pro, which came with a free WinXP boot disk and, ack-ptth, "downgrade rights". In that case the restrictions don't apply. But I think that getout clause itself had a time restriction which may have just expired. (I nipped in at the end and got a Toshiba Satellite Pro T110, 1366x768 screen, "Core 2 Solo" (Celeron) 1.3GHz.)

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Now.. the only question for me, is can it boot/run Linux? If so, I'll probably spring for one.

Apple hardware is better than Apple software. In fact, I'd go so far as to say they make the best Linux workstations available. (The bootcamp pseudo-BIOS thing tends to set its SATA up as legacy not AHCI, and needs to be quirked, but I'm guessing that what took me a day of hard googling would be second nature to the IDE guy.)

Peter