idk rumor is it won’t be that bad
I use a Mac Book Pro for work i7/16gb ram/SSD its nice…Just like having a desktop for home.
After trying to get Linux working nicely I now understand why hackers/devs/everyone runs OSX you get a BSD backend with a GUI that doesn’t suck.
Those are some nice specs! Very similar to what I have in my work PC.
She went with the i5, I tried talking her into the i7, but I believe that the i7 is only in the 27 inch iMac. Which was a bit too large for her. We maxed her out at 16 Gigs ram, since the 21.5 inch iMac isn’t upgradable post purchase (well atleast without voiding the warranty). On the 27, the ram can be accessed on a back panel for easy upgrade…but that’s about it I believe.
She grabbed the apple care, which for the price, is actually a pretty great idea. I used my old UB id from 09 and still got the student discount =)
EDIT:
Saved about $200 bucks for the iMac/apple care with the UB discount. Put the order online, and they didn’t ask for a copy of my ID AT ALL! 
When I upgraded from XP to 7 with a, now 5 year old, laptop I was pretty surprised by how fast 7 ran. I installed 8 on a partition one day for fun, and never went back to 7. 8 is extremely fast and reliable, takes time to get over metro, but typically once I boot, I just have thunderbird and chrome open.
I grabbed one of those get your windows 7 menu back apps and its all good
Amen. CentOS is pretty awesome too for non critical applications you don’t need RH support on
I love it but can’t put the money up for one with out any reason to
Upper 2k for one model and upper 3k to low 4k for the higher end models I saw on the Apple site on launch but cant seem to find it anymore. Way more than any normal person needs to spend IMO to update their facebook status.
boxxa you will appreciate this…
I had ubuntu once on my laptop but ditched it when I couldn’t find sound drivers. a faptop without sound is no good.
How old was the laptop? Sound, Network, and Video seem to be pretty supported out of the box from what I have seen.
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Doesn’t seem to load for me
weird http://instantserver.io/ works for me
Click button
Get free VPS for 35min no questions asked
If you want to keep it pay money
Thats pretty sweet. Cool business idea. I wonder how they fight spam/bots/stuff on that.
Here is another cool use of linux http://www.docker.io/
instantserver.io won’t load for me either. DNS lookup is fine, but the connection just churns and churns. Tried to hit it on 443 and got a bad ssl cert, so the web server is listening and doing something…
Someone wrote a script to keep spawning instances and using them to nmap :lol:
should have seen the abuse coming… connect to the site through TOR, hack away on free machines then leave
I wonder if there would be a way to redo this business model. I am pretty good with the VM setups and wonder if you could restrict it to prevent abuse like that.
the answer would be authentication, then limiting the number of VPS’ they can run in parallel.
Well there wasn’t even any session control you could keep hitting the VPS button :lol:
I would make them generate some certificate based on their IP address/real name and confirm with an email the limit them to connect from that IP during the “free” time
Annoying enough that it would cut down on a lot of abuse.
a half-decent captcha would cut down pretty good too
Well I guess I got my weekend project.
The other issue is clicking would instantly create a VM…
You didn’t have to agree to any terms of service.
4-5 year old dell 1525