I've gotten tired of watching the spinning beachball, so I decided to switch back to Linux. A friend has a dual boot set up on his mac - OS X and Linux, so I bought a little macbook pro and . . .<p>Bootcamp Assistant only supports Windows 7<p>After updating the OS X on the system, my arch linux boot disk cannot find the disks - which it could prior to the update - so I can't even flush the hd and make a single boot machine.<p>Looks like apple is now an entertainment company.<p>Does anybody know of a nice laptop that I can use - preferably Arch (Ubuntu seems to be going (or have gone) the way of bloat and slow
There's no need to change your OS (especially because the OS really doesn't matter anymore). If you're tired of the beachball, get a RAM upgrade. I can upgrade my machine (which has 8 GB) to 16 GB for about a day's pay (or two). And I don't make very much money right now. Changing the OS usually takes an entire weekend (tweaking things and moving stuff takes longer than many of us think). So by the time you get it done, you've probably broken even.<p>Unless you like doing this sort of pain, in which case you can't be helped :)
If you get a early 2011 MBP you might be about to install linux on it. The models afterward have a new UEFI that does not allow OS's that aren't "allowed".<p>Lookup the new UEFI to get more information about it.
<i>Looks like apple is now an entertainment company.</i><p>Looks like a non sequitur to me.<p>Apple was never in the business of selling general purpose hardware.<p>Running Windows via Bootcamp is just a courtesy for the multitude of switches from Windows.<p>Why should they bother supporting an OS that has extremely few desktop users, and dozens of variations?