Going from Apple and MAC OS X to Linux???

It depends on your computational needs and if whatever Linux distro can suffice those. If one does, you will gain a lot of money by selling those Apple devices and getting a PC and putting Linux on it.

 

Desperate times demand wiser decisions, not desperate ones.

Sorry to read your motive, but re-think about it.

Sell some stuff but not all.

Keep your most current Mac and the Airport, as well as some iOS device.

Download iBooks Author, write a book, sell it.
Learn how to code, develop Apps and start getting money.

Anyway, besides the dreams listed above.

Keep your Mac, and use it to work on your Resume, search for new better paying job, learn something with it.

Good Luck.

And you can run Ubuntu or Linux n a Mac anyway, so don't commit that sad mistake of loosing your Mac.

 

Two desktops, a laptop and an iPad? No need to sell it all, get rid of either the laptop and a desktop, or the desktops and the iPad. That way, you'll have a computer and portability no matter what you choose. Two phones? Sell one of them, the 4S if you need a lot of money, the 3GS if you only need a breather. The router isn't worth selling, you need one either way and if those 50 bucks will make a world of difference you have bigger problems than can be solved here. Sell one or both of the iPods.

As for pricing, check eBay and http://www.mac2sell.net/

 

Before I switched to Mac from Windows years ago, I really tried to convert to Ubuntu first. I just couldn't do it successfully, mainly due to video editing (which Apple does better/easier), which was important as I have little kids.

Now, if I were you, I'd keep these and sell the rest.
2. 2010 21.5" iMac 3.06GHZ, 500GB HDD, 6GB RAM, OS X 10.6
3. 2011 15" Macbook Pro 2.4 GHZ i7, 750GB HDD, 4GB RAM, OS X 10.7
8. Apple Wireless extreme base station 802.11N

With this, you have 2 computers that allow both to be working/coding/editing video. I recommend that you sell all media consumption device?

As for the 2 smartphones, are they off contract? If not, keep it. If it is off contract, I'd recommend selling it and picking up one of those newer android devices. I have galaxy nexus and quite happy with it. I avoided previous android devices due to clunky OS but ICE is quite good.

 

Is Windows not an option?

I dual-boot Linux (Debian) and use it occasionally for development, but there's just not enough good software for my daily use beyond, like, email and internet. No native Adobe Creative Suite and few games.

But since you said you run linux in a virtual machine, I think you have everything there to decide for yourself if it's good for you.

 

Sorry to hear about your situation.

If I didn't have my Mac I'd be using Mint Linux. I just recently started using Mint (normally I use Fedora) but I REALLY like it a lot.

 

I'm a huge advocate for Linux.

Having used it very successfully for several years, concurrent with my Macs & Windows machines, I find it fast, fun & very reliable.*

I've used six or seven Linux distro's and settled in with Mint 12 as of late. I might suggest you consider obtaining a live install DVD, along with the 12 DVD set that contains a vast repository of every possible software app one could want.

Here's a link to purchase high quality disks at a very low cost. I've patronized this company for years. They're fast & very trustworthy.

I'm running Mint on a ThinkPad T60, ThinkPads are very Linux friendly.

Linux Mint 12
Platform: PC
Contents: 1 Install/Live DVD
Price: $5.95

Linux Mint 12 Software Repository
Platform: PC
Contents: 12 Software DVDs
Price: $29.95

http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view....nt?ad=google&gclid=CPPi3srDq68CFQZ_hwodPFS6oA

Here's another great resource.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

 

Why are you dead set on selling all your Apple stuff? It would be interesting if you answered my or 2oahu's post.

 

It depends.

Linux has plenty of shortcomings, mostly in the fields of audio, video, hardware support and user interface consistency. If you've been a long time mac user it will drive you nuts.

And I say that having been a unix guy for 15 years +

 

I don't think selling your hardware just to buy new hardware makes much sense unless you really need something faster than what you have. Realistically though, your 2011 iMac is going to be about as fast as anything else out there in that clock speed range. If I were in your shoes, I'd probably just sell my "extra" hardware and make different reductions.

 

I'm not questioning the downsizing, but selling all of it.