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Flirting With Mac OS X
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*
The truth is that unless someone gets me a "good price" on the hardware there's no chance that I'll get OSX. The interface is quite nice, although that's not enough on its own, and the hardware is great but then a 1930's Bentley is a really nice car but I ain't got the cash.
How much Intel can 500 quid buy? What fraction of an Apple would the same money buy?
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
And, eventually, I installed Linux on the machine.
Reason one: I'm not paying $130 for an OS update when it's (at least the useful parts) entirely based on user contributions.
Reason two: Getting ordinary software packages to run under Mac OS X takes a lot of time, even for a seasoned developer.
Reason three: Mac Linux distributions are pretty fast these days. The CPU's are well supported and in my experience Linux is faster on the machine because there's no graphics overhead other than the kernel framebuffer.
If I had it to do all over, I'd of just bought a cheaper PC notebook and installed Linux on it. Mac OS X wasn't worth dealing with Apple.
As a company, Apple has a policy of religious bigotry. See here. I'm boycotting them because of this; you should too.
Id consider OSX if it wasnt Proprietary, Non-Free software. Sure the kit has its merits, but I cant see getting fooled again...