I like Macs - going way back - I had a 128K RAM Mac that I upgraded to 512K RAM by re-soldering new memory chips on the mother board (which I think says something about how Apple can sometimes be very irritating in their otherwise innovative designs).
I liked that NeXT machine when I worked at a company where we did some messing around with development on them. I totally ignored Macs, though, until OS X came around. I like it's ease of use experience for normal computer interaction, and the fact it has Unix under the hood for geek activities. I have a Mac now, but it's no longer suitable for the development activity I want to be doing. As such the machine I spend most time on these days is a Ubuntu64 PC. For years, all the PCs I have, I've built or bought customized - never name brand stuff. The Ubuntu PC is one I built. This time around I have a hankering for a notebook, though. I don't work on computers during air travel, but I do want something that is relatively easy to grab and hall out to my secluded log house. I haven't bought a notebook since about 2002. Folks have gone on and on about the quality of Mac notebooks, and that that makes them worth the price difference. In the past when I've built PCs, I would select good parts and throw them into a not so attractive tower case. But the darn thing would sit under a desk and I'd select a good display, keyboard, and mouse. With a notebook I can't get a quality experience like that on the cheap, though. I have to go to the notebook company for the full monty. Am I a cheap-skate for balking at an extra $1000 for going with a Mac notebook? Maybe. I don't buy BMW - my personal auto is a Toyata 4Runner with V6 and 5 speed manual transmission, with a low-high shift and under armor plating. I rather like solid utility that comes at solid price/value ratios. Out of the PC experiences that I build I get solid utility for reasonable cost. I have to say I'm really balking at Apple's $1000 premium on those grounds. And on the grounds that the Java story for Mac OS X really, really sucks. I wish Apple made products that were easier buying decisions for the likes of my consumer bent (a guy that likes solid values like Toyota 4Runners). Alas, nothing in their computer product line really is very suitable from my perspective. That and the Java problem is driving me nuts about Apple Macs these days. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
