From: "Kris Steenhaut" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 09:04:29 +0100
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This is to good to let it pass away. :-)

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Thinkpad] OSX on a T60?
Date: 	Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:53:53 -0600
From: 	Alex Austin <circuitsoft.alex@gmail.com>
To: 	tsservo@gmail.com
CC: 	thinkpad@stderr.org, Andrew <andrewaa@comcast.net>
References: 	<9f4afcbe8bf216411fd1e7250a56b6aa@comcast.net> 
<001e01c70d3c$7bb92ac0$0201a8c0@biggerpengin>



When IBM sold the Thinkpad line to Lenovo, Apple got more Thinkpad engineers
than Lenovo did. At this point, you might say that an Apple is more Thinkpad
than a T60.

- Alex

On 11/21/06, Tim S. <tsservo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> About six months ago I was trying to decide if I wanted to get a MacBook
> Pro
> or a T60p.  I had narrowed it down to those two options.  Long story short
> I
> went with the T60p because I was not convinced that Apple got their
> hardware
> issues squared away - I was moving to Egypt and didn't want my machine to
> croak.  But in the back of my mind was was concerned that I was not going
> to
> like OSX and I'd be stuck with it.
>
> About two months ago I was a bit bored and thought I'd try out OSX, so I
> downloaded a copy (yea, I know... It's gone now though), installed, and
> tried to live with it for a few days.
>
> I actually wrote up my install procedures here:
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=28200&start=60
> Scroll down to tsservo
>
> And my initial thoughts on it here:
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=30747
>
> Before someone gets on me for downloading it, it's been deleted now - and
> sorry, I won't help anyone find the ISO to download.  Gotta find your own,
> it's like a rite of passage.
>
> But by going through this, Apple has gained me as a customer.  This little
> exercise taught me was that I actually like OSX and could use it for an
> extended period of time - If only Apple sold OSX for everyone else because
> I'm still not sold on their hardware.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org] On
> Behalf Of Andrew
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:18 AM
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] OSX on a T60?
>
> On Nov 20, 2006, at 12:16, thinkpad-request@stderr.org wrote:
> > I've carved off partitions for Linux, installed, uninstalled, removed
> > the partitions - even did it for OSX a while ago when I decided to
> > give that a spin on the T60p.
>
> OSX on a thinkpad?
> More details please.
> ISX running on a Thinkpad would suit me fine.
> I know I've heard discussions of how to install Windows on the new Intel
> Macs (but no convincing "why")
>
> Andrew in Ann Arbor
> technology is the answer, what was the question?
>
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-- 
- Alex Austin
Circuitsoft Computer Services
(651) 238-9273
www.circuitsoftcs.com

"...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur."
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Groeten uit Gent,

   Kris