Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 02:23:09 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Chip <chip@wiegand.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: beginners with bsd Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10011010209070.24821-100000@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <39FFBE74.372EF3DC@wiegand.org>
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Chip wrote: > I wouldn't give you any flak, I'm just curious why you would > recommend the > Mac. Why would it be better than any custom 'pc'? I will admit, I > have never > used a Mac and know basicaly nothing about them. Well Basically because there are whole teams of people at apple whose job is to make the OS easy to use. They also have proffesional interface designers whose job is to study how people interface with the computer. And these people's opinions are listened to unlike other places. When trying to get the same task done in windows and Mac, the mac task is much easier. Often when using Mac OS, I find myself saying 'man, somebody was thinking there' I don't use Mac unless I have to now that I have FreeBSD. It's not that much more stable then windows and is purposely designed for someone who doesn't know what the OS is really doing and don't care to know. Mac OS X, coming out soon (Beta already of course) will combine that ease of use and well thought out interface with a solid unix core. See www.apple.com/macosx/ if you dig around enough you can find some details. And I would have to politely disagree with Igor and say that ease of use (for a beginner; ease meaning: does not have to learn too much to get something done) does pretty much equate with GUI. Now efficiency and getting a lot done in a short time (power) are a different story. A GUI cannot do that well. Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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