Didn’t it end up being a grounding issue with your tower?
Ground looping.
The more the power drain, the worst the ground loop problem becomes.
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Bear in mind listeners this is Canadian dollars, so that’s about a hundred bucks USD (I might be a few dollars off 
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Cheapest MacBook starts at around $1300 CAD.
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I adjusted my price accordingly lol. Oh how i miss when the dollar was at par
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The canadian dollar is worth less than the US dollar? WTF? What happened?
Read a newspaper once in a while. There’s a whole world out there.
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Not useful!
North American inflation was not a big topic until now. And I would have thought that the state of the economical situation of the US is not so good, based on CNN and Fox News…
It was at par briefly around 2013 I think, its been all downhill since then. The current idiot in power isn’t making things better but we shouldn’t get political.
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So, get political but we shouldn’t get political? 
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We would gladly welcome Canada to the EU. With Brexit we have a slot available ^^
Touché
Damn, its been that long eh
I remember that. My wife and I were dating at the time and I was up visiting her in Calgary shortly after 9/20/07. As an American who was used to my dollar going further up in Loonie land, it kinda sucked a little.
no
I mean I have done this several times (to Minis), and love linux, and have used it professionally for decades, but… it’s not an improvement over MacOS, not even close. Not even as a unix (love BSD :))
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Oh but it is! 
This was done on Macbook Pros and iMacs.
As far as I am aware, there are still some active in the company running Linux. 
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I mean there’s no danger of Linux desktop ever being successful beyond us nerds (and even most of us prefer MacOS as a user), so arguing against this is kind of like punching down at a kid brother, but seriously comparing Linux Desktop to MacOS as a user experience is pretty amusing.
I actually like MacOS a lot as a unix variant as well, as mentioned. Easily the most widely installed BSD variant, and most users never know because the UI integration blows every other attempt at this out of the water by such a wide margin that it wouldn’t even occur to most users that they were running unix.
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But also it’s not apples to apples (haha, get it?) macOS has an entire massive international corporation behind it, aggressively marketing their OS and entire ecosystem. Linux doesn’t have anything remotely close to that. It might also not be the year of the Linux desktop, but you can do all everyday things on a Linux desktop no problem anymore. It’s not 1998. For music in particular, Reaper, Audacity, Ardour and so on, run natively on Linux.
To get back on topic a bit more: the Lenovo laptop that was suggested + Linux slapped on it would actually be a great choice. Even without Linux, probably one of the best choices in that budget range.
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I use it all the time, I’m aware of the current state. There’s still no way it will work for the average user; the minute you have to trade files with people and interact with others it starts to break down. OpenOffice still mangles Word/Excel files, etc. And even then, the experience on MacOS is still just much nicer.
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Not too sure about that, my friend put Linux Mint on his grandma’s laptop and she uses it daily and hasn’t noticed a difference 
Also, recently I had a huge issue with Microsoft Office not playing nice across my PC and my supervisor’s Mac and to this day haven’t figured out why. I do get though that macOS is quite a bit more refined. We can only dream about the year of the Linux desktop
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