On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 3:01 PM -0700 01/13/2006, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An interesting couple of reads:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/01/
from_macworld_0.html
You know, it sounds as though Yeager hasn't paid ANY attention to
what Jobs&Co said last year when they announced the move to Intel.
"Low end systems first, high end systems last"
hey, I said it was an interesting read.
Didn't mean to come off at you...sorry...
I don't always agree with Yeager. But the guy does try - a Mac
advocate in a PC world.
That's largely my problem, he's claiming to be a Mac advocate, but
doesn't quite seem to know what he's talking about. Not good in a PC
centric world to spread misinformation. like trying to extrapolate
from chipset made for laptops to professional level systems. (and,
just in the interest of a little perspective, people were running
Final Cut Pro happily, on G4-450 and 500 systems. FCP will rock on
the new iMac...)
And I'd like to have his budget, if he thinks his systems need
replacing every six months...in our office, my computer is an
upgraded Sawtooth that was donated by a secretary when her system was
upgraded to a G5, one co-worker has his own computer in there, my
boss's laptop was a freebie from Gateway as incentive on a large
server deal, and only our newest hire actually has a new computer.
Of course, I'm setting up new dual-core PC's with 400G of SATA drives
for graduate students to use, and 2.5 Ghz G5's in faculty member's
offices...we're the cobblers children in the College...
Though that last G5 was a relief...I've finally moved our very last
holdout from OS 9 to OS X...we now have only TWO systems running OS 9
now in the entire college. One is attached to an instrument, running
it and saving the files to the network is all it does, and the other
spends most of it's time turned off, I think.
That last OS 9 holdout has given me a better feeling for David Elmo's
plight. This professor was ready to send the thing back to the
bookstore in pieces because he didn't catch the little reveal
triangle in the default open and save dialogs that let you navigate
folders. "It won't let me save the files where I want it!"
I remember stumbling around with that one myself, then, but that was
in 2001 when OS X was released, it's become so far buried in my
memory and trained in my fingers that I don't think about it anymore.
Moreover, that style of dialog had been present from 8.6 on...
--
Bruce Johnson
"No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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