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Old 10-26-2009, 11:07 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Yeah, pretty much. But it has limitations, I'm sure.

It's the look I'm after, as I'm thinking of getting one of these laptops, loading it with Linux, and using it for notes and things like my friend does.
Yep, looks nice and for basic computing will probably work fine. It'll confuse people from a distance anyway.
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Positive. It was a linux distribution. He had a dock which shows me it's highly customizable.
The "dock" was probably awn which roughly replicates the dock from OS X in case you are/were interested.
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For all folks who like to read the basics about Linux on Macs go to:

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