When you toss in the sub-woofer it might be pretty good. Beats me, but it's best not to berate them until you've really hat a chance to test them out.
For example: Apple brags it's iBook gets a 6 hour battery life (what laptop actually gets it's marketted battery life?). I've read two reviews from people, one from the L.A. Times and the other from the Wall Street Journal, that actually got 6 or more hours from the battery.
Mac OS 9 (you can reserve your copy now at any Mac reseller) and OS X allow for multiple users to do exactly as you describe (i can log in and have my desktop and when your girlfriend comes over to spend the night and logs in, she too can have her own desktop). Apple's been braggin about this for months (long overdue, but hey, it's basically there now). Better yet (and just to be a snot), I can log in with a secure voice command - to hell with the keyboard and mouse! There's also benefits to consistency - big time benefits. You don't sound like any IT person who has to hop from desktop to desktop in a large company: in such a place consistency is a godsend (unless you're paid by the hour;). I was at a small company, and even there people would tweek things to their preferences and it makes managing a network that much more of a pain. Consistency also helps the tech support guy on the other end of the phone when your computer fritzes out. Don't get me wrong, i think being able to tweek this and that ad infinitum is great, but there's great power in consistency and depth. As usual, I'm off topic.
That's cause they don't taken into account SSE or 3DNow or the G4's AltiVec unit.
AltiVec (what Apple is marketting as the Velocity Engine) is superior to both Intel's and AMD's fancy multimedia stuff. It's what actually gives apple the bragging rights to the G4's Supercomputer status (as defined by the US Government). Don't believe me that the G4 kills the PIII or K7? Check Thresh's review.
Even better, a simply recompile will give software an immediate boost (althought further hand tweeking will yield better performance still) - which isn't so with PIII or K7 i believe (which requires code to be rewritten).
Apple's current G4 tower doesn't make the most out of the G4 chip, but in a month or two it'll be mostly there (they'll be introducing a new motherboard with 450+ MHz G4's).
Boy, this is really off topic. Yellow Dog linux is G4 friendly. I don't see what the whole issue is.
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don't know any other OS that does that.
to prevent from being completely off-topic, Mac OS X has some freebsd stuff it.
And more, like a signed (personalized!) copy of Spiegelman's Maus in hardcover, oh the list just goes on and on... And you can't have them.
When you toss in the sub-woofer it might be pretty good. Beats me, but it's best not to berate them until you've really hat a chance to test them out.
For example: Apple brags it's iBook gets a 6 hour battery life (what laptop actually gets it's marketted battery life?). I've read two reviews from people, one from the L.A. Times and the other from the Wall Street Journal, that actually got 6 or more hours from the battery.
somebody talked me into buying worldcom stock some years ago. sometimes less competition is good! -one greedy bastard.
Mac OS 9 (you can reserve your copy now at any Mac reseller) and OS X allow for multiple users to do exactly as you describe (i can log in and have my desktop and when your girlfriend comes over to spend the night and logs in, she too can have her own desktop). Apple's been braggin about this for months (long overdue, but hey, it's basically there now). Better yet (and just to be a snot), I can log in with a secure voice command - to hell with the keyboard and mouse! There's also benefits to consistency - big time benefits. You don't sound like any IT person who has to hop from desktop to desktop in a large company: in such a place consistency is a godsend (unless you're paid by the hour;). I was at a small company, and even there people would tweek things to their preferences and it makes managing a network that much more of a pain. Consistency also helps the tech support guy on the other end of the phone when your computer fritzes out. Don't get me wrong, i think being able to tweek this and that ad infinitum is great, but there's great power in consistency and depth. As usual, I'm off topic.
That's cause they don't taken into account SSE or 3DNow or the G4's AltiVec unit.
AltiVec (what Apple is marketting as the Velocity Engine) is superior to both Intel's and AMD's fancy multimedia stuff. It's what actually gives apple the bragging rights to the G4's Supercomputer status (as defined by the US Government). Don't believe me that the G4 kills the PIII or K7? Check Thresh's review.
Even better, a simply recompile will give software an immediate boost (althought further hand tweeking will yield better performance still) - which isn't so with PIII or K7 i believe (which requires code to be rewritten).
Apple's current G4 tower doesn't make the most out of the G4 chip, but in a month or two it'll be mostly there (they'll be introducing a new motherboard with 450+ MHz G4's).
Boy, this is really off topic. Yellow Dog linux is G4 friendly. I don't see what the whole issue is.
i thought Hotmail was run on Solaris before Microsoft took them over...