Comment Re:Portable Python? (Score 1) 386
Why not go the whole hawg and use vim?
Why not go the whole hawg and use vim?
It's easy, just start selecting some extra options such as more RAM or an ssd drive. Admittedly the other manufactures also have a high markup on such upgrades but it's much easier to upgrade these parts yourself. Apple do their best to go against this with helpful features such as hard to open cases, oddly sized storage mounts and glued in memory.
If you choose the cheapest RAM / storage options on a "pc laptop" and buy upgrades elsewhere you not only save a few hundred bucks on manufacturers price but also have a spare drive for backups/whatever and an extra RAM stick to flog on ebay. Given Apple's price markup on upgrades the savings will be even greater for similar specs.
As for the GPs comparison of a 13" XPS vs the MacBook Air, Standard: given that the Air uses a low power Core variant the fact that it has a higher clock speed is meaningless. The XPS will be faster and costs 20% less than the Air.
Obviously substitute the url for which ever one you decide to actually d/l, but the following ought to work:
wget --limit-rate=20k http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/#index1h1
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.