make up your mind afterswift! you seem to have a number of dispirit personalities who are each using different hardware and software. i suggest a huggy jacket and some thorazine, stat (i don't think the tin foil is working any more!).
use intel processors? now there's a joke, intel wanted to ditch the grossly outdated and over stretched x86 architecture after the original pentium, and had even announced as much. unfortunately, unlike apple who have successfully migrated to new processors microsoft wasn't up to the job and forced poor intel to make more and more silly and inefficient processors. apple has consistently used some of the best processors available, which is part of why a mac usually cost more than a pc box. even ibm, when they came out with the original pc considered using the 68k processor because it was far superior, but chose the x86 architecture for supply reasons. ibm was willing to build a lesser machine cheaper for more monkeys, apple wanted to build a better machine for slightly less hairy primates even if it meant charging more and making fewer. oh, by the way, another brilliant reason for apple to go to osx is that it will make future migrations much, much easier. perhaps even to intel chips, but most likely to their good risc chips, not the retarded pentiums which are superb only in their ability to generate heat and electrical noise. why with osx apple can even migrate to other more exotic processors for the higher end machines, while maintaining compatibility with lower end machines using the same os and third party software. os x was a brilliant move. i think your orientation is clear, it's not toward the end user, it's toward microslough and their poor L(users) who you don't want to be elevated to people who actually enjoy using a computer, where as most pc users spend allot of time working on their computer rather than with it! will the real lessthanswift please stand up, please stand up? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ---------- > I agree with you. System 9 is an excellent OS. Much simpler and less > complex-looking than Windows for the end-user. Jobs could have built a > terrific customer base on 9, whatever he would call it for promotional > purposes. Frankly, I turned off Launcher because it looks like hell, takes up > too much of the screen, and is intrusive. I work out of the Apple menu and > aliases. > > I'm oriented to the end-user. That's where a computer makes it or doesn't. I > want Apple to compete with the PC community. It that requires that Apple buy > processors from Intel, so be it. Then the issue will become the design of > hardware, the universality and stability of the OS, customer service, > and an easy environment for software programmers to work in. Apple could > excell in all of these categories. ----------- -- "For six years, John O'Neill was the FBI's leading expert on Al Qaeda. He warned of it's threat to the U.S. But to the people at FBI headquarters, O'Neill was too much of a maverick, and they stopped listening to him. He left the FBI in the summer of 2001 and took a new job as head of security at the World Trade Center." <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/knew/>. Why did 911 happen? Politics, in the broad sense and at the FBI, that's what makes it a tragedy in the truest sense. O'Neil's body was found in the stairwell of what had been the south tower. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
