Two key quotes from the article:
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> However I feel that Apple have concentrated on getting OS X running
> nicely on their top-end hardware and ignoring those of us who can't
> afford or just don't want to upgrade to something a faster
> I think maybe I should clarify here that I'm not an Apple user for
> the software. I don't use Photoshop or Dreamweaver ...To be honest,
> I only really wanted to play with Apples for the hardware. Apple
> hardware is, in my opinion, the best manufactured and designed
> hardware bar-none. Macs are sexy, cool and hell, they last for years.
I have two ibooks. One original ibook, orange, with a 300mhz,160mb,3.2
gb drive. It is the greatest computer in the world. My second ibook is
the newer, tasty titanium version. As much as I love OSX for being the
greatest GUI known to man, it will not run well enough on the original
ibook to be of value to me. Furthermore, once installed, there is not
much space left on my drive for other apps and files.
Thanks to debian, my original ibook does everything I want it to do,
reliably. I have access to thousands of free software products, and I
am only using 2/3's of my drive. The combination of the amazing Mac
hardware and the depth of debian make this the "best" laptop in the
world, for me.
Thanks to apple, the newer ibook runs the greatest gui in the world.
With fink, X11, and the shell, the only limit to what I can do with this
thing is my imagination. While I may eventually make it dual boot, I am
not likely to anytime soon. OSX is not something to "switch" from
unless there is a well-thought out reason. I thought the author had
good reasons.
scott
