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>1 Apple G4 for kick-ass GFX and SFX-processing with nice, configgable GUI
>[configgable? what a word] and a widescreen TFT thrown in the mix
I'm not too much into configuring the GUI... If there are lots of
configgable things, it usually means that the designers didn't know
what they were doing in the first place...
I used to play around with Kaleidoscope (a Mac extension that lets
you change every little detail of the Mac user interface -
http://www.kaleidoscope.net), but after a couple of months of
changing the skin every week I returned to the default Mac look. The
default look is good-looking enough and neutral enough at the same
time... Most of the Kaleidoscope skins keep breaking your
concentration...
I don't even use desktop background pictures - particularly on Mac,
because I want to clearly see my files on the desktop. Desktop
pictures disturb me...
>2 A UNIX machine for all the networking I'd like to do, as well as
>scripting: hooks to every program, with nice CLI and input output (have
>been looking for a 'normal' CLI Telnet for windows... didn't work out)
_I_'d like to have a UNIX machine with Mac interface and good
multimedia support... Heehee... sounds like a Mac with OS X to me...
;)
>3 An absolutelyX-all enabled, ActiveX,DirectX,3DFX,MicrosoftX blazing Intel
>machine with our beloved Windows installed (yeah..)
Microsoft is eeeeeevilllll, eeeeeeeeeeviiillllllll......
Seriously speaking, I think that Windows 95 was originally a good
thing for human kind... ;) Windows has made real the thing Mac was
desperately trying to do: it has democratized (**) computer use. But
I just keep wishing that the most wide-spread OS would've been Mac OS
and not Windows.... The original, not the replica. The innovators,
not the copycats (*). (And of course I'd like to live in world
without Microsoft...)
And the only one to blame for losing Mac's market dominion chances is
Apple itself. Microsoft offered a deal to bundle M$ Office with every
Mac in '85 or '84, but Apple refused the offer... Later John Sculley
(CEO of Apple after Steve Jobs) made a deal with Gates which allowed
M$ to copy "some parts" of Mac OS user interface to Windows in change
for continuing M$ Office support to Mac.... (Don't forget that Word
and Excel were Mac applications first... How ironic...)
This gave the birth to Windows 95, which copied _everything_ from Mac
to Windows (poorly).
Apple menu -> Start menu
Trashcan -> Recycle bin
Finder -> Explorer
Recent applications, recent documents and recent servers -> Documents
(in Start-menu)
etc...
---> jab
(*) Before you mention it, yep, I _do_ know that speaking about
"original" is a bit absurd, because originally graphical user
interface was developed by Xerox and before them in sixties in
Stanford University by Doug Engelbart and his assistants. But Apple
was the first to make it really work and brought it to the people...
Xerox had dumped the whole graphical user interface project as a
total failure at the point where Apple rescued it.
(**) ... and while doing it, Microsoft has also demoralized computer
industry business...
