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Flirting With Mac OS X

Posted by Hemos on from the opening-up dept.

An anonymous reader wrote to us with an article on Byte from Moshe Bar about flirting with using OS X. Taco and I are both strongly considering beginning to use OS X as a primary laptops - anyone else looking at doing this? And anyone from Apple that can get me a good price on super TiBooks? *grin*

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  1. Re:Go for it. by Xouba · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    I use nothing but OS X on the beast (Up the RAM to at least 384Mb)

    Ehm ... you don't mean that it *needs* 384MB, right?

    <rant>I'm beginning to think that everyone is thinking that OS X is great just because of the everyone-says-it syndrome: there are a few people that keep on repeating that "OS X is cool" again and again, and the feeble minded just swallow it. You know, brainwashing. Yeah, it may be cool, but all this switch fever is something that I barely understand.</rant>

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  2. Re:Laptop is apple's strength by Nexus7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why stop at the trackpoint and 3 buttons? Add an IBM case with IBM engineering too. It won't shine like a cheap whore, but it'll have a subtle glitter embedded in the anti-slip rubber coating. It'll also have an unobstrusive night light. Memory will be cheap, peripherals will be user-swappable, and you'll be able to put bog standard Linux on it. And your money will go to a company that does everything from specialized software to fundamental research, not some self congratulatory Taiwanese notebook rebadger such as Apple.

  3. Re:Asthetics by eno2001 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just like dishing out catty comments like the above has always been the realm of fag0rtz. Pot. Kettle. Black... You must be a homo too. Stop posting anonymously and come out of the closet, it'll make your life so much better.

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  4. Huh? by I+Am+The+Owl · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Apple is closed, proprietary hardware and software. Aren't we supposed to inherently distrust closed software because we can't audit the code for bugs and security problems?

    We shouldn't trust Apple farther than we can throw them, but we're promoting the use of their closed OS (and an overpriced one, at that.). What gives?

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  5. Nothing beats... PINE!?!?! by jbuilder · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Moshe writes:

    Multiple terminal sessions (screen, Linux virtual terminals, Emacs, vim) and a good e-mail client (nothing beats pine).

    At this moment I stopped reading the article. Anyone who would say that PINE is a BETTER email client that MUTT (http://www.mutt.org/) is obviously a dolt and not worth the effort.

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