To answer Femme's questions. Cocoa is developement language that is, now,
heavily used on Mac OSX. It's supposed to be very simple, makes very good
light weight apps. I've only seen it used on TechTV, but I've heard that it
makes programming very easy. A lot of people have a lot of nice things to
say about it. Not just the large number of Mac junkies.
As for the original question. Why Mac anything? Your question can be asked
of just about anything.
In your case, of course you're not going to have any hardware problems. The
software, and the hardware are created by the same people. So if they can't
get that right, then they're in the wrong business.
However, for an industry that has countless possible hardware configurations,
the PC OS is going to run into hardware problems.
But OSX is capable of running a web server, ssh server, database servers as
well. You can turn off the options in both systems. It is very simple to
build a machine with a Linux distro that is very slimmed down, that runs no
servers at all.
So if you want put together a quick list of pros and cons between your situation
and many of our situations.
MacOSX -- No hardware issues and tons of proprietary software for that
hardware. Kind of hard to have problems when the software was written
specifically for that hardware and it's present.
But at the same time you only have a small list of hardware available, and
Apple is one of the Kings of over charging. It's rediculous to spend Apple's
prices for hardware that you can only get from them. You can't go to your
local computer store and buy a new video card for a Mac.
Linux -- Very stable, very capable of running various servers if needed/wanted.
I have no problems finding apps and installing them to do the things that you
do on your Mac. (All save Quicktime, and that's only because I refuse to pay
for it.) A very vast amount of the hardware out on the market is supported
or will work with some attention given to the situation, for a quarter of the
price. What's the new Mac's price? $1,500? I built a 1200 AMD Tbird, 512 MG,
DualHead display, Soundblaster, speakers for under $600. (So in saving almost
a grand, I went on vacation twice. :')
There are some hardware issues. Due to proprietary drivers, or lack of drivers,
or kernel support, but the kernel has taken leaps and bounds in recent years.
But these hardware issues exist in the desktop giant, M$, as well.
Everything has pros and cons. The above are just simple points. I've not used
OSX, meanwhile the new Mac does look pretty sweet, and the DvD authoring is really
the only thing that I'd ever be interested in.
I only know one truly objective Mac user. And he says he enjoys MacOSX, but it still
doesn't compare to the stability of the BSD base it boasts.
So why do you use Mac?
tdh
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| whats cocoa?
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| Personally i'm looking to replace windows with it. Except for gaming
| that is.
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| So, I write, listen to music, surf, do heavy research, tweak & fiddle
| with it. *shrugs* its a tool for me that doesn't crash.
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| Femme
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| Omnus Necromancy wrote:
| >
| >
| > If your not running a server, or doing a task that requires linux
| > specifically, why are you using it?
| >
|
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