Ha, no worries. I was actually considering a MacBook prior to making my purchase. Ultimately, it depends on what you're looking for. I actually got mine for $940 from an individual on eBay who went to Google IO and got it for free. Mine's the 64GB ($1,449) model w/ LTE. Otherwise you can get the, still overpriced, 32GB Wi-Fi only model for $1,299. So, you can get a 13" MBP w/ a "retina" display for $1,499 with more memory, faster CPU, more HDD space, and a /slightly/ smaller screen. So, yeah, I *never* would have purchased a Pixel for more than $1,000. My biggest concerns with getting a MBP was putting Linux on it. I'm just really not a fan of the Mac OS (my sister has one and after all these yes, I still dislike the interface) and so I went to BestBuy and monkeyed with one for hours using a Live Linux distro... and there were just too many things that didn't work right or annoyed me about the hardware, and this was a /year/ after they had released the MBP I was using. That's the entire reason why I didn't buy one. All of the Pixel drivers were included in the 3.10 kernel, I believe. Had I not gotten a Pixel, I probably would've waited for the Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, which is looking to be out now for $1,399 with slightly lower specs (but larger display) than the MBP I outlined above. At the end of the day, I bought my Pixel several months ago for the resolution. My primary monitor at home is 2560x1600, so I wanted a laptop with a resolution around there that was also very light and portable. It works for me, but I'd never recommend buying one for the retail price. That said, the non-ARM ones that cost <300 are pretty great. A friend of mine has two (one x86 for him and one ARM for his fiance) and they're incredibly useful, especially for the price. So, I /would/ recommend one of those. Drop the Pixel down to $1,000 and I'd recommend it as well. With the price as is, get something else. And, I think I've rambled long enough! -Andrew On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:01 PM, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Andrew Dahl <droidjd at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Ultimately, if your son can't do what he needs to using Linux, a > Chromebook > > probably isn't the best idea. Personally, I have a Pixel and I'm in love > > with it. > > Forgive my ignorance, but for the price wouldn't it'd be more > advantageous to buy an Intel Macbook? > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130822/ad9c474a/attachment.html>