I'd disagree about 1 point there, at least for 1 of their systems. The 27" iMac. 27 inch 2560x1440 display, Core i5 Quad Core, 1TB of HDD, 4 GB of Ram, and a pretty nice 512MB ATI Radeon card. 2 Grand, educational discount gets 100 bucks off, so 2 grand out the door after tax. Find me an equivalent machine(including a display of that size/caliber) for less than that cost. If you can, then find the engineer willing to built it all into the sleek 27" display, with only 1 cord coming out the back for power. I just bought one last week and I love it. Running OSX on 900gb, 80 gb goes to Windows7, and i run various linux in VMWare.
I agree with the needing to install their dev crap to get gcc/make, and about Steve Jobs. Not sure about package management issues, I don't see a need for it. Ports(http://www.macports.org/) is nice for command line stuff, other than that I don't see a need for any package management inside of OSX. Michael Gorman http://michaeljgorman.com On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr. <[email protected] > wrote: > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Dino K <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Guys, please don't argue about trivial evils on the list, let's >> concentrate on the real third reich... it's called Apple. >> > > Ok, I'll bite... > > I own a Macbook Pro, and Apple really sucks in a lot of ways. Namely... > > --you gotta install special stuff just to "make install" WTF? > Seriously... > --you pay a fortune for hardware that you can otherwise build for very > cheap. > --package management sucks on Apple. I paid $3K for my Macbook...WTF? > apt-get and/or yum is FREE! > --Steve Jobs is a dick (seriously, the book "No Assholes" had tons of > submissions on Mr Jobs). A visionary, but still a dick... > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
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