What i don't understand is that, over 20 years later, the boat is still passing and Apple is still missing it. They could make billions off OS X if they'd just port it to x86. The market is practically begging for a secure, reliable, "standardized" OS to get away from Windows. If OSX ran on x86, i think it would be real competition for Linux, especially for people/companies moving to Linux to get away from Windows.
But i'm actually thinking about getting a MacMini since they're pretty affordable and appear to be decent machines (haven't read any in depth reviews though). ray On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Jeffrey Lee wrote: > I see people that take os x off of their macs and put gentoo or some > other version of linux and i cant understand why. I guess there are > benefits? > > It would be nice to be able to design your own mac or buy parts off the > shelf. > > > On Jan 21, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > > With the new generation of G5 Macs and the Unix based OS X, I'm > > thinking strongly of converting over. > > > > I need them to allow me to build my own workstation though! I will > > NOT pay their prices for something I should able to build in a > > whitebox case. I'd say the Mac Mini is a step in the right direction > > but it's a little underpowered for my geeky taste. > > > > I will, however, pay 100 dollars for OS X. It's that good. > > > > > > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:09:29 -0600, Jeffrey Lee > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Read it in the paper this morning, I want to see it... being a mac guy > >> and all I think it is great. I think it should be used for more than > >> just 3d/music though. > >> > >> On Jan 21, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Brad Bendily wrote: > >> > >>> Did you guys hear about LSU's new supercomputer Nemeaux? > >>> > >>>> From the small clip i heard on the news it's a cluster > >>> of Apple Xservers! > >>> > >>> > >>> BB > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> General mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> General mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
