The only reason I would buy a Mac is for the laptop hardware. I don't need cute eye candy, or a nifty music playing program. I need manipulexity and whipuptitude in an operating system, to borrow terms from Brother Larry [1]. OS's like Linux or the BSD's give me the freedom to tinker. I only wish laptops in general were as commoditizable as whiteboxen are, so I could cheaply and easily build a laptop like I can build a whitebox (PC).
-Jon D. [1] http://use.perl.org/~ziggy/journal/26131 -------------------- 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
