Gary’s Blog

Right, as many of you know, I am a member of the Ubuntu-UK LOCO team, I have been for about a year now.  I was just thinking today, after joining the IRC channel, and being offered advice pertaining to my recent post about my MBP not working quite right under Ubuntu, how absolutely excellent both Mr Pope, and the community are, I did not ask directly for help, I did not whinge, I only posted a blog comment, and actually said I was just waiting to find some guides on how to fix the few remaining “bugs”.

For someone to go out of their way, even if it was just a little google search using different keywords to what I used, and to post them back, un-asked for really impresses me.

This is why I like Ubuntu, and this is why I keep going back to them, I hate the default human theme, but that is so easy to change it’s a non issue, the OS is fab, but what beats every other distro and both the other two mainstream OS’s is the community.

As you can read on previous posts I have just got back from LugRadioLive2007, and I have also gone to LinuxWorld back in 2006, and meeting people who you see make such wonderful contributions to the community on the Forums, mailing lists, IRC Channels and LaunchPad, for no financial gain whatsoever really gives me that nice warm feeling inside.

So folks, and I hope you know who I am referring to, let me say thanks, let me honour you, YOU are the reason so many people like ME are ubuntero’s

Just back in June 2007 I bought a 15″ Core2Duo 2.2Ghz MacBook Pro from the Apple Store in BlueWater, and thought it about time I made a report on it.

I bought the laptop a matter of days after the slight upgrade and price drop, so I got the SantaRosa cpu and all for the sum of £1299 - which I thought expensive but better value than the previous models.

I had a great time in the store, sales assistants were helpful, it was light and airy, there was no pressure to be forced into a sale, nothing like PC World or similar, I was very impressed. I chose the Glossy screen, took me ages to decide too, but in the end I thought that the glossy screen suited my intended use better.

I have joined the apple discussions forums and helped out a bit, and read up on what troubles people have had with these laptops, obviously being a support site, people are mostly there to whinge or seek help, not to give help like me. I have had no issues at all with my machine, well except the skipping a key problem, but thats a very very minor issue for me.

Over all I am very happy with this laptop, and since it is the first machine I have bought with my own money, thats just as well :p