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BSD User's Review Of OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the time-for-the-your-check-up dept.

Lally Singh writes: "Getting bored with the latest distribution? Or getting tired of searching for drivers for your 8 bit soundblaster (in)compatible? Then listen to one BSD user's opinion of Mac OS X. And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."

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  1. Re:Whats wrong with a mac by chasec · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    the 9600 i have is going on 4 years old and still shits on my PII 866 with 512k of ram for photoshop work

    512k? My old 386 could beat that...

  2. Re:Apple hardware is actually pretty nice! by pinkpineapple · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Very well engineered my arshe! I bought a TiG4 recently just too find out that the temperature of the sucker goes well beyond what my table top can stand. I took the laptop by one end and the battery dropped on the floor! Next, I found out that the keys are still marking the LCD screen when you close the lid. And finally, the decals on the laptop transfer to the base frame when you close the machine, so you can read PowerBook G4 on the bottom, mirrored. I don't mention the problems I had with a Cube G4 since these are well know, neither the underpowered 256KB cache /66MHz memory bus on the new iBooks making these machines unable to run a bloatware ala MacOS X. What were you saying about well engineered?

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    -- I feel better now. Thanks for asking.
  3. Cost by SilentChris · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    "And stop complaining about the hardware. Give a Powermac or one of the portables a chance before knocking on it."

    Sorry, can't afford it. Really. Has anyone seen the prices of Macs lately? I swear, I think at least $100 goes toward the candy coating.

  4. Re:Why? by supabeast! · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I know all about the differences between a 500Mhz RISC chip with a massive cache versus a 1Ghz CISC chip with a tiny cache, you pretentious fuck. Just because Apple can win a few benchmarks doesn't beat mean that their chips are anywhere near as fast as Intel/AMD chips all around, especially in gaming performance, one of the most important arenas for PC performance. The G4 CPU is a great processor, it just isn't nearly great enough to justify what Apple charges for it.

  5. Drivers? by Grim+Grepper · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Or getting tired of searching for drivers for your 8 bit soundblaster (in)compatible?

    I'm sorry? Now, before you mod me as a troll, hear me out. Of course Mac OS X doesn't have driver problems, but it's because the hardware selection in Macland is very poor. Why should they have driver problems? There are so few peripherals out there for Macintosh computers. What good is it having "working drivers" if there is so little hardware available in the first place?

  6. iBook is LAME by jchristopher · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    And stop complaining about the hardware.

    I'm surprised no one has mentioned the new iBook's (which is otherwise a nice, competitively priced computer) crippled video out. On a laptop with a 12 inch screen, it would be REAL nice to run the video out to show 1280 x 1024 on your 17 inch CRT, right? Or maybe drive a high resolution projector for a PowerPoint presentation?

    It would be nice, except that you can't, because Apple intentionally crippled the video out so that it will only do 1024x768, even though the video chipset is capable of 1600x1200.

    This is deplorable! Why are they intentionally reducing functionality?

    Dell makes their top end look good by giving faster and faster chips and more storage, not by crippling the low end.

    It has been suggested to me that they don't want to take sales away from the TiBook. Well, if the TiBook looks overpriced compared to the iBook, maybe they should revisit the pricing, huh?