Comments on: Apple MacBook vs. IBM X60s

By: nishiyama

nishiyama — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:15:59 +0000

Amazing coincidence: yesterday I bought an x61 for 128.000 yen (that is ~180 kHUF) for my wife – she will see it in four weeks. After that I realized that the basic Macbook is approx the same price. Actually I am not fond of Macs, but was afraid that maybe she would like it… :( I am not sure. I will introduce her a Mac later just to bear the responsibility for the uninformed choice :)
However, this machine is better, imho. Lighter, smaller and the Kiwi Linux almost look like a Mac :D
And not to mention the trackpoint – I anticipated that it would be a disaster but having used it for 1 day I already miss it from my own Acer TM6291… what a great thing is the travelling the without moving!

By: trandojedi

trandojedi — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:49:00 +0000

i just picked up a new x60s for 1550 australian $ (lenovo sells for 3000 on their site)

very practical. can imagine whipping it out on bus on way to uni. have to buy external dvd to install different OS :P

By: phanatic

phanatic — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:53:48 +0000

Hi JayC3,

you can use the Desktop CD Installer of Ubuntu, it’s pretty easy and straightforward (you’ll get a menu at boot time to choose between Windows XP and Ubuntu).

Hope this helps…

By: JayC3

JayC3 — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:39:45 +0000

Hi Phanatic

Can you point me in the right direction (or websites) on how to dual boot the x60s with Ubuntu and XP? A step by step instruction is much welcomed ^_^ Cheers !

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By: arjun

arjun — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:17:15 +0000

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By: brian c

brian c — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:11:28 +0000

I hope my input helps

Im the proud owner of a ibm x41 its much lighter and has the nice magnesium? case

I recently bought a macbook 13 intel core 2 duo
the x41 centrino is still zippy but core 2 duo is a nice jump in processor speed and battery life even from the core duo

the macbook is heavy close to 15 inch heavy. but its slim and the materials are nice.

With Apple moving to Intel processors and programs like parallel. Apple
has new light to take over a huge market share from ibm pcs

My macbook runs windows and mac x, Apple has the same market appeal as say the motorola razr.

By: phanatic

phanatic — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:37:22 +0000

Caffe: you’re right about your concerns about the comparison, but I loved these two models, and wanted to buy only one of them. From the search results it seems that many people asked the same question ;)

In my later blog entry about Ubuntu 6.06.1 and X60s I wrote that the Linux kernel currently doesn’t support low-voltage processors (with the 4-cell battery my X60s runs for 2 hours).

By: Caffe

Caffe — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 16:31:12 +0000

IBM X60s is clearly a superior note book when light weight and long battery life are the main concerns.

It is not even sensible to compare a mac with this ‘ultra portable’ class laptop. They are just built and designed differently.

Read the following review and one would soon understand why it has been given such high rating.

By the way some linux OS cannot really make use of the ultra low voltage features in the chip, so the battery will never run for 8 hours on the laptop.

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2828
http://reviews.cnet.com/4323-6527_7-6509056.html?tag=txt
(select ibm x60s)

By: phanatic

phanatic — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:07:55 +0000

I’m happy that you found this entry useful. I must tell, that I’m very happy with my X60s running Ubuntu day and night :)