MacBook or others ?

[SuSEholic]

Hi all...

I'm having a really deep complicated question in my mind now.

Currently i'm using this laptop:
Travelmate 4021NWLCI
- Pentium M 1.6Ghz 2Mb L2.
- 1.5 Gb DDR2
- 60Gb HD
- 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller
- 1280x800 TFT LCD
- openSuSE 10.2 (with Beryl )

I'm thinking to buy a new laptop, and highly interested with macbook (and partially with the osx , i'm thinking about dual-booting osx with openSuSE10.2)

I will using this new laptop mainly for software development using java (j2ee), and partially for image editing.
I need laptop with high performance (core 2 duo and 2GB RAM is a must).
The budget is around $1000-$1500.

My question is:
- Does openSuSE10.2 run all macbook's hardware flawlessly?
- Is there any laptop i should consider besides macbook (i really interested with macbook's design)
- Is there also any laptop that *don't* have Windows pre-installed on it? (I don't use Windows).
- Does anyone knows place i can buy macbook with cheaper price? (this one just a joke, i couldn't find one).

Anyway, here's the macbook spec:
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz
- 2GB DDR2
- 100GB HD
- Intel GMA 950 graphics processor with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory
- 1280x800 Glossy LCD
And it cost around $1530.

Please give me any advice or your thought.
Many thanks in advance.

[techieMoe]

My question is:
- Does openSuSE10.2 run all macbook's hardware flawlessly?

I'm not sure, but these sites might help:

http://modular.math.washington.edu/macbook/
http://www.jasonparekh.com/?page_id=9
http://hardware.mcse.ms/archive57-2006-3-282819.html

- Does anyone knows place i can buy macbook with cheaper price? (this one just a joke, i couldn't find one).

Have you considered a refurbished one off the Apple "Hot Deals" website? They're usually significantly cheaper.

http://hotdeals.apple.com/

On the subject of other laptops that might work for you, Michael Dell uses a Dell Precision M90 with Ubuntu, according to his corporate bio:

http://www.dell.com/content/topics/g...us&l=en&s=corp

[SuSEholic]

Thanks for the pointers, it gives me more choice to consider .

For the apple's hotdeals, I couldn't find any refurbished macbook, they offer the PowerBook, but that's out of my budget. Anyway, I want to buy new laptop, not the refurbished one .