> On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:39:32PM -0700, M. Bitner wrote: >> Are you looking for recommendations on hardware or general obstacles >> to switching?
Yes. >> I bought my first ever Mac in February, a G4 Powerbook. Overall I like >> it a lot. There are some differences I found difficult to get adjusted >> to, but once I did I thought the OS X solutions were generally more >> elegant and user friendly than Windows. The only complaints I have are >> fairly programmer-specific, such as the lack of really good >> programmer's text editors that don't cost $200. > > There's always vim. ;) And if you want a good free IDE, you could use > emacs. But I guess if you're going to use emacs, you're back to looking > for a good editor. =D > > Several people swear by jedit, which is cross-platform. I don't use it > because, as you can probably tell from the above wiseassery (is that a > word?), I prefer console-based editors which can be used over ssh. Probably doesn't matter for them. The kinds of tasks that I know of are email, web browsing, and *possibly* graphic editing. Definitely not programming. >> Also, the Powerbook seems to be much better built than what I'm used >> to in the PC world. I have a Dell Latitude D800 at work and it seems >> like a clunky cheap piece of plastic next to my Powerbook. Add to that >> the lack of viruses and spyware and that might make a better choice >> for a college student than a Windows PC. > > Clunky and cheap definitely describes the average Dell next to the average > Powerbook, and as I said, the iBook is definitely more rugged than the > Powerbook. The average wintel laptop feels fragile (and the average > non-Centrino wintel laptop absolutely should not ever actually be used on > a person's lap under any circumstances for any time period..) > > > A lot of things that are ctrl-key in Windows are cmd-key in MacOS X. Cut, > copy, and paste for example. I don't find it hard to use ctrl-x vs cmd-x > when I sit down at a wintendo or wintendow wannabe (Gnome, KDE, etc), > though I am always trying to alt-w to close a window. I assume they will be able to deal with that. BTW, thank you for your comparison of various apple HW solutions. I forwarded that to my sister (with minor deletions to remove my comments about Microshaft and Gates.) Oh, and I also deleted the bit about UofO. They are in Redmond. -- Allen _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
