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if your a hacker why would you need that?

• lifeisstillgood 14y ago
  Because I am a hacker with a per hour cost. I love messing around with BSD, and then blogging about it (itmanagerscookbook.com / ciocookbook.com) but, I simply cannot afford downtime like this for things that are totally avoidable, by leveraging the intelligence of others. Apple collates that intelligence and "curates" it for me. But they are not "open" - and if there was someone even similarly testing hardware and polishing drivers then for me it is worth paying a premium, following their hardware instructions, and having a BSD machine that does what I want without the fear of sitting in front of the blank screen and spending a long time getting everything back to where I want it. :-(
  • koopajah 14y ago
    What about using a virtual machine? That way when you have a hardware failure you just switch computers, even on an old one temporarily and are still able to work properly? That's what I'm doing to ease when I'm working from my parents' home for example where they have multiple computers and I use one available.
    • lifeisstillgood 14y ago
      That's quite a good idea to combine with the whole backup routine. In theory I could carry the whole thing on a USB stick.
  • dholowiski 14y ago
    Now I'm curious - what kind of premium would you pay for this? 10%? 25% 100%? (keeping in mind the premium people pay for apple hardware ~%100%)
    • lifeisstillgood 14y ago
      Ok, I paid 300 for this laptop (I know - but I booted and ran bsd on it before purchase) anyway, I just lost nearly twice that in day rates so frankly you could sting me for 2000 pa depending on your guarantees - which is something like a MacBook pro every six months dunno - I am going to go for the n+1 laptop idea. I looked like an idiot this weekend and that's not helping