For the starter, you could have been more polite. I am not calling you an idiot, you belong to those 99% of people who come to the Apple Store and buy Apple hardware because you just like it. For me, PART OF THE USER EXPERIENCE is to know what inside the box, inside that pretty shell beyond which you do not look. You do not care, I do care. Since this is Slashdot, I believe there quite a lot of people like me here as well.
I own the latest revision of PowerBook G4 12" -- this my first and will be my last piece of Apple computer hardware. I like absolutely everything about my PowerBook. For me, its greatest attractiveness is its custom design: PowerPC CPU, Apple in-house design chipset, Open Firmware booting, and extra twists like Apple motion sensor. The MacOS X is also great, though not as open as I thought it was, but I like it has Unix foundation.
After they announced Intel switch, Apple hardware immediately lost any geek appeal for me. They just became another Intel OEM, one of very many. I will not be able to justify 20-30% makup on their Intel hardware just because it comes in a pretty aluminium case, when I know that inside it is the same commodity stuff as Acer, Dell, HP and others. If someone wants to buy some pretty hardware other than Apple, but the same on inside, here is the link: http://www.tulipego.com/
Support for the wireless networking, the new a/b/g
thing, is coming whithin 30 days. This is according to the news.com report here http://news.com.com/Intel+lets+Linux+into+Centrino +camp/2100-7344_3-5542514.html
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For the starter, you could have been more polite. I am not calling you an idiot, you belong to those 99% of people who come to the Apple Store and buy Apple hardware because you just like it. For me, PART OF THE USER EXPERIENCE is to know what inside the box, inside that pretty shell beyond which you do not look. You do not care, I do care. Since this is Slashdot, I believe there quite a lot of people like me here as well.
I own the latest revision of PowerBook G4 12" -- this my first and will be my last piece of Apple computer hardware. I like absolutely everything about my PowerBook. For me, its greatest attractiveness is its custom design: PowerPC CPU, Apple in-house design chipset, Open Firmware booting, and extra twists like Apple motion sensor. The MacOS X is also great, though not as open as I thought it was, but I like it has Unix foundation. After they announced Intel switch, Apple hardware immediately lost any geek appeal for me. They just became another Intel OEM, one of very many. I will not be able to justify 20-30% makup on their Intel hardware just because it comes in a pretty aluminium case, when I know that inside it is the same commodity stuff as Acer, Dell, HP and others. If someone wants to buy some pretty hardware other than Apple, but the same on inside, here is the link: http://www.tulipego.com/
Welcome to the USSR!
Support for the wireless networking, the new a/b/g thing, is coming whithin 30 days. This is according to the news.com report here http://news.com.com/Intel+lets+Linux+into+Centrino +camp/2100-7344_3-5542514.html