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Re: Pondering a mac mini.



On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 16:01 -0600, Bart Dorsey wrote:
> the biggest thing is probably wine. If you like to use Crossover
> Office for instance, that isn't going to work under PPC.

Don't forget closed- and semi-closed source apps/libs like:
- w32codecs
- Sun Java
- acroread
- Flash
- RealPlayer 10

Some of these have acceptable FLOSS alternatives, but others
don't.

This is also why AMD64 - in 64-bit mode - isn't the best thing
for many desktop users yet.

[snip]

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