Professional laptops, particularly Apple professional laptops, are more analogous to sports cars. So yes, you do always buy the fastest sports car. You know you'll barely use a fraction of its potential on public roads, but when you burn some old shitbox off at the lights, you'll have a smirk on your face that almost makes up for the impotence.
To get a verbose boot, hold down option-v on power up (or do 'sudo nvram boot-args="-v"' to always show the boot sequence). Note that you can also boot into a single-user shell using option-s.
As to why Apple would have gone back to providing a CLI, I suspect it's merely a carry-over from NeXT; if Apple had succeeded in writing their own next generation OS it probably wouldn't have included one. Given that it's already there, it provided opportunities too good for Apple to ignore, including a vast array of existing CLI-dependant software & services, a familiar toolset for unix admins, and a lot of geeky users and developers.
I always have a bit of a chuckle when I fire up the terminal - I distinctly remember an Australian Macworld editorial c. 1991 discussing the future direction of Apple, which included this gem: "2050 - Mordecai Jobs, great-grandson of Steve, implements a command-line interface for the Mac, hailed by the Mac media as a 'breath of fresh air', claiming that 'the old Mac interface has more windows than apartment buildings in New York'."
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You mean like MSMQ?
Unfortunately the author of the article doesn't know what message queuing is either.
Yep, I got "Unable to understand address Perth, Western Australia". We might have to settle for the much-maligned sensis.
Professional laptops, particularly Apple professional laptops, are more analogous to sports cars. So yes, you do always buy the fastest sports car. You know you'll barely use a fraction of its potential on public roads, but when you burn some old shitbox off at the lights, you'll have a smirk on your face that almost makes up for the impotence.
To get a verbose boot, hold down option-v on power up (or do 'sudo nvram boot-args="-v"' to always show the boot sequence). Note that you can also boot into a single-user shell using option-s.
As to why Apple would have gone back to providing a CLI, I suspect it's merely a carry-over from NeXT; if Apple had succeeded in writing their own next generation OS it probably wouldn't have included one. Given that it's already there, it provided opportunities too good for Apple to ignore, including a vast array of existing CLI-dependant software & services, a familiar toolset for unix admins, and a lot of geeky users and developers.
I always have a bit of a chuckle when I fire up the terminal - I distinctly remember an Australian Macworld editorial c. 1991 discussing the future direction of Apple, which included this gem:
"2050 - Mordecai Jobs, great-grandson of Steve, implements a command-line interface for the Mac, hailed by the Mac media as a 'breath of fresh air', claiming that 'the old Mac interface has more windows than apartment buildings in New York'."