On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 17:19 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > 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. Not if you need screaming FP performance, and/or are concerned about power consumption or dissipation. For ultimate number-crunching performance, PowerPC can't be beat, since it's just as fast (or faster) than x86, and you can pack more in tighter spaces than Xeon and AMD64. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Linux is not a house, it's a pile of lumber." Jeremy White, CEO CodeWeavers
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