Ditto, been using it for 5 years now and love it.
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:28:02AM -0700, John Steinbruner wrote:
> Gotta love OSX. I brought this thing home, plugged it and the mouse/KB
> in, fired it up, and 10 minutes later it was configured and downloading my
> Email for me. :)
>
> "Everything just works" should be their motto...
>
> Just rebuilt a PC last weekend with XP SP2, including the 127 updates and
> downloads, it took 4 hours. 'Course, that was with installing SEP,
> MSOffice, WinRar, Acrobat Reader, and stuff like that too.. :)
>
> I am kinda amazed at how much I like OSX for everyday mainstream stuff.. ;)
>
>
>
>
> On Jun 28, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Ben Ruset wrote:
>
>> Duncan:
>>
>> Mac OSX is built on top of BSD. It's the closest you can get to a really
>> well polished desktop *NIX experience. Ubuntu follows a close second.
>>
>> The nice thing about Mac hardware is that it's largely compatible with
>> newer versions of OSX. There are people who have 10+ year old PowerPC
>> mac's that have had various hardware upgrades and are still fast, usable
>> machines. It's hard to say that about standard x86 hardware.
>>
>> IMHO Apple gear is worth a look.
>>
>> DHSinclair wrote:
>>> Ben,
>>> Thanks, and, mostly I follow your comments and JoeUser's to get an idea
>>> of things MAC. Now that Steine seems to be dabbling, I have another
>>> viewpoint.
>>> Not certain that W2K is totally EOL yet; I still get WinUpdates each
>>> month. Yes, I now longer have dreams of one last "SP5" for Win2K. When
>>> these stop I will decide and jump. I no longer have the time and/or money
>>> to try and acquire enough legit XP copies to keep my stable opsnorml. I
>>> will not go warez either. Email and web-banking is very much fun, but I
>>> can still go totally black (offline) and have a very competent, fully
>>> electronic "typewriter" in an interim.
>>> Or, I will just segregate my one XP machine to full internet status and
>>> figure out how to filter it from my home LAN. Right now I am focused on a
>>> major upgrade to my home, so most things computer are again on
>>> hold............ :)
>>> BSD still seems way too much cmd-line to me. Perhaps there are now solid
>>> wrappers that make it easier for a guy sans programmer experience. I'll
>>> give it another look though.
>>> Mostly likely, I will go MAC. I am not concerned about hdw cost. I will
>>> buy as much as I can afford and then run it fully to failure. I do not
>>> tinker much anymore. I accept that I do not have bleeding edge anymore. I
>>> find it is not needed for my life/banking/commerce needs now. Still it is
>>> nice to know what is out there 'if only.'
>>> Best,
>>> Duncan
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