Re: Pondering a mac mini.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:01:33PM -0600, Bart Dorsey wrote:
> All in all, my mac makes a very nice Linux box and has the cool OS X
> software I can run on it to boot.
I just don't get why Mac is cool.
Linux on PPC -- wow, it looks and acts exactly like i386, only with
still more hardware incompatibility problems and even less support!
Mac OSX -- I keep trying to like it. I go to the store, click on the
floaty icon bar on the bottom, and I see nonstandard Bash prompts and a
bunch of nichy apps.
I think my parents would like a Mac. I'd probably like it if I was a
graphic designer, musician, or video editor. But for a grungy hacker
like me I just don't see the appeal.
At best it's "equal to" with a couple gotchas -- slowness and
nonstandardness.
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