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Return of the Mac

Posted by Zonk on from the it-went-away? dept.

Ben Gutierrez writes "Paul Graham has posted a new essay on the Return of the Mac which begins with: 'All the best hackers I know are gradually switching to Macs.' Tim O'Reilly said some similar things in Watching Alpha Geeks . From the article: "My friend Robert said his whole research group at MIT recently bought themselves Powerbooks. These guys are not the graphic designers and grandmas who were buying Macs at Apple's low point in the mid 1990s. They're about as hardcore OS hackers as you can get."

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  1. Re:Let the flame war commence! by HiThere · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How are the apps on Debian for PPC? I've been quite displeased with the paucity of Yellow Dog apps. (Presumably there are yum servers around, but I haven't found any yet that carry packages that aren't on the main servers...and it would be easy to do, e.g., wxPython...I know because I recently compiled it [well, I HAVEN'T tested it yet...].)

    Will Debian PPC install libsdl and pygame? (I ran into trouble trying to get that working.)

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  2. Re:Games are the key... by rokzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    no, it just seems like there's a lot of anti-abortion stuff recently.

    I don't want to seem to avoid the issue by hiding behind a politically-sensitive phrase like "pro-choice", I have no problem with abortion and want it to continue to be an option.

  3. Re:Oh brother. by EvilStein · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I need to invent the Slashdot "+10 Hammer Of WTF". :P

  4. Re:I would buy a Mac... by elbenito69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If everyone on Slashdot participates here, the cost argument goes right out the window.

  5. Re:G3 and OSX is fine by emilymildew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or it's whiny babies who have opinions that aren't in any way based on facts who want to be able to spread their own crap around without any repercussions to their registered account.

    Or are we saying exactly the same thing?

  6. Re:I would buy a Mac... by ifwm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "all these examples have something in common. The strategy backfired" All of them? ALL of them? I think you're full of it, and I'd like you to back that statement up with some FACTS please.

  7. Re:Anyone really using XServes? by anothy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we're approaching one dozen at three locations (US-MD office, GB-London office, GB-London data center). we've also got about as many PowerMac G5s for development and test servers (all but one in our US-NJ office). we're quite happy. we do, however recognize that we're in a distinct minority, and we've gotten more than one odd look from someone when we tell them this.

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