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I learned a lot from Dvorak's Hardware Bible back in the eighties and  
when I discovered Macs I was disappointed by his attitude toward them.

The new press on Apple is right on.   I have been using a Ti Powerbook,  
(1 ghz G4 for non Macophiles) for over a year as my main ride.  I have  
seven Linux desktops at home (and no windows) but Apple goes to work  
with me.  I really think OSX is the best *nix OS I have ever used.  I  
used to use Virtual PC about six years ago to help my old Macs keep up  
albeit slowly but I don't need it anymore.

I can truly run any Linux app on my powerbook plus all the Apple stuff.  
  I use a python script to run rsync to back up to an external firewire  
disk.  I edit photos with the Gimp and edit .docs with Abiword.  When I  
need NT authentication for my browser I use Firefox not IE.  I prefer  
nmap to the few mac network exploration programs I use Kermit to do  
serial communications to oddball hardware I have to fix sometimes.   
(through USB!)

People still look at my "obsolete" Powerbook (new model out last year),  
and ooh and aah when I take it out.  It is exactly what I wish my Linux  
boxes were.

Mark

On Dec 31, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:01:22 -0500, Christopher Fowler
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
&gt;&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1745930,00.asp";>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1745930,00.asp</a>
&gt;&gt;
&gt;&gt; Read above article and discuss.  I've always wanted an iMac ever since
&gt;&gt; Jobs went to a UNIX platform.  I want a laptop that is created to run
&gt;&gt; UNIX not  UNIX that is massaged to run on a laptop.  My problem with
&gt;&gt; PC's is that there is always a piece of hardware not supported and
&gt;&gt; sometimes running Linux on them can cause issues.  But I just can not
&gt;&gt; get myself to spend that much on a laptop when I can buy a PC based
&gt;&gt; laptop that is extremely fast and has many benefits.
&gt;
&gt; Dvorak is a babbling, incoherent, washed up PC promoter who has been
&gt; helping to perpetuate the idea that &quot;no, this time it is really
&gt; over...the mac is dying&quot; for the last decade. Meanwhile Apple
&gt; continues to sell more units every year. Now we have this idea that
&gt; since their market share dropped a bit this year that it means fewer
&gt; macs sold. Fraid not, Apple is selling more macs than ever. Now the
&gt; scary part is that with the introduction of Tiger (OS 10.4) and Oracle
&gt; 10g for OS X, the macs will become a serious contender in the
&gt; enterprise market as soon as we start to see IBM (yes, IBM!) start
&gt; offering support for them. The truth of the matter is that Apple, and
&gt; the lowly Mac, are positioned to become a driving force in the
&gt; computing industry again. It takes a while to draw all the lines that
&gt; connect the dots, but the signs point to Apple becoming a serious
&gt; player at home, work, and anywhere else silicon is used to process
&gt; information. I'm not a big mac guy, but I've been playing with the
&gt; Tiger beta for a few weeks now and I have been more impressed by this
&gt; OS than I have ever been by anything done in lintel/wintel
&gt; country...Solaris 10 included. How well it scales remains to be seen,
&gt; but I suspect that somewhere deep inside an IBM facility there is a
&gt; big pSeries machine running OS X (or at least Darwin) to investigate
&gt; that very thing. Apple has the reputation for being overpriced, but
&gt; before you convince yourself of that you should probably read this:
&gt;
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://osopinion.com/modules.php";>http://osopinion.com/modules.php</a>? 
&gt; op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=3095&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0
&gt;
&gt; and this:
&gt;
&gt; <a  rel="nofollow" href="http://osopinion.com/modules.php";>http://osopinion.com/modules.php</a>? 
&gt; op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=3133&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0
&gt;
&gt; Now go on over to the Apple web site and price out 2 XServe G5 boxes
&gt; maxed out on RAM and CPU with an XServe RAID box maxed out at 5.6 TB.
&gt; Compare that to the best you can get from Dell. Hint: One will be 5
&gt; figures, and the other 6. :)
&gt;
&gt; Apple has certainly got my attention, despite what Dvorak may say.
&gt;
&gt; --
&gt; Jonathan
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