Quoting "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I have a Mac Mini at the office, but I rarely ever go there. Our servers
are remote, much of my work is done at night, so what's the point of
wasting the time and overhead of going downtown and using the facility?
Anyway, I like Leopard and I can use most of the Linux applications I
need on it just as well as in Linux. I've been considering getting a Mac
to replace my desktop here at home, but I would want to play games on it
so I'm not sure if it will fit the bill.
The seemless integration/support via X11 and built-in terminal are
part of what won me over as well.
As for games, if you mean windows for gaming, then you can definitely
use boot camp to install windows and play. I think you can use it for
linux too if you meant games there (vs mac games.. pickings still
pretty lame) but not sure on that.
Speaking of mac games, I just bought Puzzle Quest for it. I had it
for the PSP and was having fun, and stumbled across info online about
2 bugs that could basically ruin the PSP experience.. 1 which was
already hitting me and I didn't even realize it, but had been making
many battles harder. Anyway, the mac version of the game isn't
native.. it's the PC version with a Transgaming wrapper optimized for
it. Sorta annoying that it's basically transcoding windows, but
surprisingly it's been rock solid (I had tried the PC demo already
under crossover mac that failed completely, and in a parallels windows
install it was unusably slow) and the memory usage isn't that bad. My
thumbs thanked me last night. :)
I won't drink the iTunes kool-aid any more than the VCAST. I've encoded
over 200 of the tracks on some of my CDs today and copied them to my
SDHC card. My Voyager recognizes the albums, artists, and songs and
The reality is, you can only sip the kool-aid and still do everything
in mp3 form, and never use the iTunes store if you want. I set the
default import settings to a high bit rate mp3 and have ripped plenty
of stuff. It's always worked well, and playback on other devices
(like another mp3 player I had, but don't use anymore, and also tivo
which I do once in awhile) works great.
At about $250, it beat getting an iPhone or iPod + a phone and being
tied to AT&T and iTunes.
This is true.. Apple stuff generally is NOT cheap, though I've yet to
ever have issues with it (sans the one MBP battery issue, which they
swapped for me without any delay when I went into a store once) so you
do (usually, there are always going to be some failures) get what you
pay for.
Too bad it doesn't run Linux (I wonder if anyone's hacked it yet? :) )
Well, it is running an OSX variant, so it is a unix. :P
I had my ipod Touch hacked with an ssh daemon on it for awhile..
didn't make much use of it so I went back, but it was a unix install
with some basic tools.
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