Gotta love OSX. I brought this thing home, plugged it and the mouse/
KB in, fired it up, and 10 minutes later it was configured and
downloading my Email for me. :)
"Everything just works" should be their motto...
Just rebuilt a PC last weekend with XP SP2, including the 127 updates
and downloads, it took 4 hours. 'Course, that was with installing
SEP, MSOffice, WinRar, Acrobat Reader, and stuff like that too.. :)
I am kinda amazed at how much I like OSX for everyday mainstream
stuff.. ;)
On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ben Ruset wrote:
Duncan:
Mac OSX is built on top of BSD. It's the closest you can get to a
really well polished desktop *NIX experience. Ubuntu follows a close
second.
The nice thing about Mac hardware is that it's largely compatible
with newer versions of OSX. There are people who have 10+ year old
PowerPC mac's that have had various hardware upgrades and are still
fast, usable machines. It's hard to say that about standard x86
hardware.
IMHO Apple gear is worth a look.
DHSinclair wrote:
Ben,
Thanks, and, mostly I follow your comments and JoeUser's to get an
idea of things MAC. Now that Steine seems to be dabbling, I have
another viewpoint.
Not certain that W2K is totally EOL yet; I still get WinUpdates
each month. Yes, I now longer have dreams of one last "SP5" for
Win2K. When these stop I will decide and jump. I no longer have the
time and/or money to try and acquire enough legit XP copies to keep
my stable opsnorml. I will not go warez either. Email and web-
banking is very much fun, but I can still go totally black
(offline) and have a very competent, fully electronic "typewriter"
in an interim.
Or, I will just segregate my one XP machine to full internet status
and figure out how to filter it from my home LAN. Right now I am
focused on a major upgrade to my home, so most things computer are
again on hold............ :)
BSD still seems way too much cmd-line to me. Perhaps there are now
solid wrappers that make it easier for a guy sans programmer
experience. I'll give it another look though.
Mostly likely, I will go MAC. I am not concerned about hdw cost. I
will buy as much as I can afford and then run it fully to failure.
I do not tinker much anymore. I accept that I do not have bleeding
edge anymore. I find it is not needed for my life/banking/commerce
needs now. Still it is nice to know what is out there 'if only.'
Best,
Duncan
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