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Wall Street Journal: Mac vs. PC
cpk0 writes "Walt Mossberg is taking a few days to discuss the differences between Mac and PCs, and which is suitable for whom. He begins by saying the tides have definitely turned in regards to Apple's state as a computer which he will recommend. This is the first in a miniature series of articles by Mossberg touching base on the Apple vs. PC situation (but don't worry, it's not at all about bashing one side)."
I'm not sure about full keyboard re-mapping, but for your caps lock woes, there's uControl.
Hope that helps!
mark
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -- Carl Sagan
The iBook comes with a 1 year warranty, the $249 simply extends the warranty to 3 years. You'll think that's a good deal if your LCD ever breaks. A side benefit of the extended warranty is that you also get free support for that 3 year period.
It's also worth noting that if you don't get the 3 year warranty, any time within the first year you can choose to pay the $249 to extend the warranty the additional two years.
MS hired the Mach MicroKernel developers to create WinNT way back in the day. These guys are excellent and experienced OS developers and they still work at Microsoft.
This is not true. Yes, Mach's Rick Rashid works at Microsoft. However, he did NOT write anything for NT; he is the head of Microsoft Research. Microsoft hired Dave Cutler to write NT. Cutler worked at DEC and wrote DEC's VAX/VMS, RSX-11M and VAXELN operating systems. NT more resembles Cutler's canceled "Mira" operating system project at DEC than it does Mach. In fact, Cutler left DEC because his Mira project was canceled. He took his ideas and team of engineers to Microsoft.
WindowsXP/2K may be the only non-*nix desktop OS, one can assume that it has a *nix basis, since the core team of developers do
This is also not true. Dave Cutler hated Unix.
cpeterso
Mac OS X requires Darwin. Darwin does not require Mac OS X. Darwin is completely independent and can be run alone on PPC and x86 machines.
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