A couple of reasons....
Footprint is smaller than a normal PC. The cube is tiny and runs fast.
No annoying fans. The imac and I think the cube have been engineered so that
no cooling fans are needed.
You get the best of both worlds. There is software that would let you run
the Mac OS inside of the yellow dog Linux. So you get all of the great
design stuff (like adding tons of fonts) plus the familiar and usefulness of
Linux and Linux apps. You could design with the Mac and test using cfserver
locally. I know there are a good amount of you using BBedit.
Oh yeah, and they look kinda cool. Because, you know, that's the most
important part. j/k
I'm sure next to none of you would find any of this useful, but there are a
few out there. And some might just find it interesting.
Sorry for getting so OT.
Dave Livingston
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 12:05 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Allaire on a Mac?
Of course... But why would you buy a mac just to
run Linux to finally make it useful? <G>
Jeremy Allen
elliptIQ Inc.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Livingston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:43 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: Allaire on a Mac?
>
>
>http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/
>
>Or just run linux on your Mac and make it real useful.
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:30 AM
>To: CF-Talk
>Subject: RE: Allaire on a Mac?
>
>
>It is actually not that far fetched when one
>considers what OS X is.
>
>Granted its not needed since OS X will be a fringe OS
>for some time.. But the technical feasability of it
>is definately easy.
>
>In fact I bet you could get it working in OS X with
>VERY little coding at all.
>
>OS X is built on FreeBSD and a BSD kernel which have
>excellent Linux emulation.
>
>Take linux version of CF, run on OS X under emulation.
>
>A native port to another Unix is cake, they have three
>already, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, moving to a BSD would not
>be much trouble at all (in relative terms to say porting
>it to MacOS)
>
>OS X *IS* another Unix..
>
>Jeremy Allen
>elliptIQ Inc.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Patricia Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 9:56 AM
>>To: CF-Talk
>>Subject: RE: Allaire on a Mac?
>>
>>
>>I doubt it. Generator Server doesn't work on a Mac, and THAT's a
>>Macromedia
>>product. Besides, extending CF to a Mac Platform just seems WAY
>>out in left
>>field to me (and I *like* macs). And when I say left field... I mean on
>>Mars.
>>
>>Maybe, possibly in the future if the OSX becomes the main mac platform and
>>they can really starte treating the Mac OS more like a *nix platform. ***
>>Maybe *** ... and still I'd say not for a few years even then.
>>
>>|-----Original Message-----
>>|From: Randy Zeitman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>|Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 8:58 AM
>>|To: CF-Talk
>>|Subject: Allaire on a Mac?
>>|
>>|
>>|Anyone have any insight as to whether Allaire's apps will soon run on
>>|Macintosh as a result of the merger with Macromedia?
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