I've been shopping for notebooks for a while and decided on the powerbook g3 (new 333). I did this for a reason. After reading all the benchmarks in the world I realized the g3 and pII were strong competitors in performance. But their is one thing the g3 has the pII can't even come close to. Power management. The battery life is much much much longer than any comparably priced notebook I checked. I don't care if my app runns 10% slower if the laptop gives me an extra hour to work. This is much more important. Plus MOBILE pII's do not perform the same as desktop pII's (be damned if I could find a reliable benchmark between the two), and most of the negative g3 bench's I found tested stuff like EXCELL which is HEAVILY optimized for win98/intel from everything I have read. I have never ever considered purchassing a Mac before because ease of use isn't all that important to me compared to what I can get per $. The powerbook convinced me it gave me a long battery life, coupled with top noch performance. It may not be *the* fastest, but I think its advantages more than make up the difference. I'm not to excited about running macOS though, never done it before, and every time I have used it, it has felt "cramped" (I know, I will be putting linux on it, but I will most likely be keeping macOS arround for word processing etc...). Anyone mind telling me a good place to really customize the macOS, is this possible? I would like to completely change the look and feel, plus I would love to figure a way to get to a command line interface, but it does not look like one exists:(. (I am speeking entirely from ignorance about macOS here, any mac users PLEASE set me strait, would like to know more).
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I've been shopping for notebooks for a while and decided on the powerbook g3 (new 333). I did this for a reason. After reading all the benchmarks in the world I realized the g3 and pII were strong competitors in performance. But their is one thing the g3 has the pII can't even come close to. Power management. The battery life is much much much longer than any comparably priced notebook I checked. I don't care if my app runns 10% slower if the laptop gives me an extra hour to work. This is much more important. Plus MOBILE pII's do not perform the same as desktop pII's (be damned if I could find a reliable benchmark between the two), and most of the negative g3 bench's I found tested stuff like EXCELL which is HEAVILY optimized for win98/intel from everything I have read. I have never ever considered purchassing a Mac before because ease of use isn't all that important to me compared to what I can get per $. The powerbook convinced me it gave me a long battery life, coupled with top noch performance. It may not be *the* fastest, but I think its advantages more than make up the difference. I'm not to excited about running macOS though, never done it before, and every time I have used it, it has felt "cramped" (I know, I will be putting linux on it, but I will most likely be keeping macOS arround for word processing etc...). Anyone mind telling me a good place to really customize the macOS, is this possible? I would like to completely change the look and feel, plus I would love to figure a way to get to a command line interface, but it does not look like one exists :(. (I am speeking entirely from ignorance about macOS here, any mac users PLEASE set me strait, would like to know more).