On May 25, 2005, at 10:03 AM, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
Did you add pre-emptive kernel patched to the Linux system? That
adds a
lot in apparent responsiveness.
Uh, no. You don't add "customer patches" to Windows XP or OS X in
order to make them "sufficiently responsive".
I don't want to do this. I shouldn't have to do this. I refuse to
do this.
I don't want to play with my OS. I want to do stuff with my computer.
I am just of the impression that they are overpriced. It may also be
because they package their computers with good stuff, so you don;t end
up getting a crappy system. They are not trying to lure you in with
cheap prices, then charge you as you build it to be usefull. I did see
that Dell did do that with their ``starting at!'' prices.
Yes and no. There are things that OS X "just does" out of the box
that XP is a pain about, but I normally don't find there is a big
difference given that I live on open-source software for most tasks.
Looking at my main docking pane I see: Firefox, X11, Eclipse,
Azureus, NeoOffice, and VLC -- all open source. I also have Mail,
Dungeon Siege, Toast, and iTunes/RealPlayer/Windows Media Player/
Quicktime. I count the media players as one item because I only open
them under pain of incompatible media files. If I were sitting on
XP, I would have Thunderbird instead of Mail (Outlook can go pound
sand), but I'd still have paid equivalents for the other 3.
Perhaps Apple is not as overpriced as I am thinking. I know that I
think
they do produce wonderful hardware. Except that to buy one, one would
have to buy one with the supported Airport card. I can't even find
those
in the Refurb section. Try your luck with EBay or Craigs List?
Does anyone in the x86 world sell internal pinout compatible wireless
cards? I was under the impression that most wireless cards were
specific to vendor and model. I'm not sure of this, but I'm pretty
sure your same complaint holds in the x86 world.
Which leaves MS Windows as the only major non-UNIX based system left.
And Intel as the only ``pure'' CISC chip maker left. Hmm...
Intel is not CISC. The RISC/CISC dichotomy is effectively
meaningless as almost all higher end microprocessors do internal
translation to RISC micro-operations.
The only microprocessor which still probably qualifies as CISC is an
ARM.
-a
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