Yeah, and do you remember the guys at Parroty Interactive? They got kicked out of COMDEX for having a Bill Gates look-alike to promote their parody of Windows, Microshaft Winblows '98?
According to Future Power, the Epower (or whatever it's called) and the iMac don't compete because Apple sells the iMac to mac users and the Epower is for the "windows enthusiast". This isn't true becuause Apple has been selling the iMac to both wintel users and mac users. Furthermore, they both sell to people who don't own a computer yet. As for the "windows enthusiast", I didn't know such a beast existed. Can anyone confim or deny this for me?
Well, I use Yellow Dog (kind of, still have a lot to learn) and I think that the combonation of *nix and the mac is a potentially powerfull concept. Indeed Mac OS X tries to pull this very trick. You can't tell me for a second that the vast majority of Linux users wouldn't slobber over an OS with the underpinnings of *nix and the ease of use of the Mac OS. In the meantime, while we're waiting for this messiah of operating systems, we have to choose between ease of use (mac os) or power (linux). Windows would fit somewhere in the middle, not as easy to use as the mac os, but argueably more powerfull (NT anyway) and linux is more powerfull but tougher to use. As a person who believes in the best tool for the job, I find that the mac os best meets my needs when trying to record my band (thanks Deck II) and I use linux for most of my network activity. It's not about uptime, it's about productivity. I feel like I have the best of both worlds. And let's not forget that, for what it is, the G3 kicks serious ass. I can't wait to see what G4 Alti-vec copper chips w/ SOI manufactured on a.18 micron process can do. Anyone know if there will be Alti-vec support in any of the PPC Linuxen?
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Yeah, and do you remember the guys at Parroty Interactive? They got kicked out of COMDEX for having a Bill Gates look-alike to promote their parody of Windows, Microshaft Winblows '98?
According to Future Power, the Epower (or whatever it's called) and the iMac don't compete because Apple sells the iMac to mac users and the Epower is for the "windows enthusiast". This isn't true becuause Apple has been selling the iMac to both wintel users and mac users. Furthermore, they both sell to people who don't own a computer yet. As for the "windows enthusiast", I didn't know such a beast existed. Can anyone confim or deny this for me?
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Well, I use Yellow Dog (kind of, still have a lot to learn) and I think that the combonation of *nix and the mac is a potentially powerfull concept. Indeed Mac OS X tries to pull this very trick. You can't tell me for a second that the vast majority of Linux users wouldn't slobber over an OS with the underpinnings of *nix and the ease of use of the Mac OS. In the meantime, while we're waiting for this messiah of operating systems, we have to choose between ease of use (mac os) or power (linux). Windows would fit somewhere in the middle, not as easy to use as the mac os, but argueably more powerfull (NT anyway) and linux is more powerfull but tougher to use. As a person who believes in the best tool for the job, I find that the mac os best meets my needs when trying to record my band (thanks Deck II) and I use linux for most of my network activity. It's not about uptime, it's about productivity. I feel like I have the best of both worlds. And let's not forget that, for what it is, the G3 kicks serious ass. I can't wait to see what G4 Alti-vec copper chips w/ SOI manufactured on a .18 micron process can do. Anyone know if there will be Alti-vec support in any of the PPC Linuxen?