{"id":126,"date":"2007-02-17T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-17T10:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=126"},"modified":"2007-02-17T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-17T10:15:29","slug":"apple-macbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Apple MacBook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to Canada this summer (next to Toronto), and it would be a GREAT occasion to buy a MacBook at an interesting price (regarding the price here in Europe: <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/1-800-MY-APPLE\/WebObjects\/canadastore.woa\/6894006\/wo\/JW2y38ucGxsP2k7XEMhatpVWXsP\/2.?p=0\">1.649 CAD<\/a> Vs. <a href=\"http:\/\/store.apple.com\/Apple\/WebObjects\/belgiumfrstore.woa\/6254041\/wo\/vL68dtIVPAEQ3OJE5xwrNrdMJJc\/2.?p=0\">1.519 EUR<\/a>, namely a difference of 440,18 EUR!).<\/p>\n<p>However, there are still 3 problems:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>The keyboard<\/strong>: I can only choose between a Canadian keyboard and an American keyboard. And the keyboard doesn&#8217;t seem to be easily replaceable on a Mac&#8230; They seem reluctant to exchange (or even buy) you a keyboard different from the one you got originally with your Mac&#8230;. Surely to prevent people like me to buy their Mac in other countries! Bastards&#8230; Happily, alternatives exist, like covering the keyboard with a thin latex keyboard with a custom layout, or painting new letters on it (the hardcore way&#8230; ).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The power adaptor<\/strong>: that&#8217;s only a minor issue. Converters are available everywhere.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The OS<\/strong>: for sure, Mac OSX is a terrible OS!!! But I want to be able to boot Linux. Once more, a solution already exists: some folks wrote a wiki about <a href=\"http:\/\/gentoo-wiki.com\/HARDWARE_Apple_MacBook\">installing Gentoo on a MacBook<\/a>. And the good news is that almost everything work fine: the iSight webcam, the remote control, the special keys, the suspend mode, &#8230; Thanks to them!!!!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So it&#8217;s almost 100% sure that from September on, I will be running on a Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to Canada this summer (next to Toronto), and it would be a GREAT occasion to buy a MacBook at an interesting price (regarding the price here in Europe:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jerome.harckmans.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}