This has been a very interesting thread to follow. I would like to throw in my two cents on the matter.
About a year and a half ago, I was confronted with a dead PCI board connection on my laptop. I could boot the machine ever so often and upon booting, it would die every now and then. I needed the laptop as it was the only development machine that I had at the time (being a poor student) and I needed to keep working. I was fed up with the PC world as I kept getting Lemons from the various different vendors. I had been looking at a MAC for a while and decided to try it. I have been using MAC OS X since. I find it VERY interesting that people in general, not necessarily technical people, have a tendancy to believe that their files will not run on a MAC or that their MAC won't work with a Windows Environment! This is a belief that many share. I found that shifting all of my files and configuring MAC OS X Environment into what I needed, took me about 2 hours, (Mind you I had never worked with OS X prior). I found it easy and very powerful. Andrew, you are very astute as to the purposes of OS systems. When people ask me what to buy, or what to get, I ask them what they want to do. This is really what this all boils down to, what you want to do. I am THOROUGHLY impressed with the OS X system. My Linux Systems, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, Mandrake, Knoppix, and Ubuntu I am always changing to look like a MAC as I prefer the theme to all the others. Windows....Well.....If people are used to it, and can't work with other systems, let them work with Windows. I prefer the MAC OS X to that of Linux. Although I can do a lot with other OS systems, I still prefer my MAC to others. That is my two cents....I will take your answers off the air! ;-) Thank you! PS - I should say if I had to choose between having OS X, Linux, or Windows on a box, I would have OS X and Linux on my box and use the Windows System CDs as book marks, they do quite well. _________________________________________________________________ Search on the go: Try Windows Live(tm) Search for Mobile beta http://www1.imagine-msn.com/minisites/mobile/Default.aspx?locale=en-us -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
