Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 21:19:34 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, bzdik@yahoo.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Crap OS X Message-ID: <200105140219.f4E2JY549635@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> of "Sun, 13 May 2001 19:53:46 MDT." <4.3.2.7.2.20010513194802.0458fef0@localhost>
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Brett Glass writes: > What is ironic is that none of these are "retro" compared to Windows. > > I'm strongly considering getting an iBook just so that I can follow > OS X, even if it's not perfect. I'm tired of the hardware > compatibility problems I routinely experience when running UNIX-like > OSes on Intel-based laptops.... And OS X would make it possible to > run a good GUI and mainstream commercial GUI applications without > risking the many problems caused by Windows emulation. Between MacOS > and UNIX applications, I think I'd be a happy camper. Comments? My Titanium PowerBook G4-400 cost $2600 but http://www.outpost.com/ threw in overnight shipping, leather carrying case, and an extra 128MB of RAM (for 256MB). Then another $100 or so for MacOS X because they don't ship it standard, yet. While that's more than an iBook or G4 desktop, I've never had a laptop before. Love it. Also buy a Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse, the blue/silver one which is "PS2/USB Compatible". At $30 its at least as good as Apple's $60 mouse, and slides better. So far I've only taken time to "play" with it. Played with MacOS X Public Beta before and dual booted that installation. Still haven't fully comprended how Apple moved the 9.1 stuff around when they installed X. Part of my problem is I have about 10 years of history in the Mac files I drag around. Is terribly easy to buy a new machine with bigger HD, drag the entire old HD to a folder in the new, and everything works. So I have about 3 folders of prior machines that I ought to spend a couple of days cleaning out. Have long since thrown away the System Folders but keep a stuffed copy as there is no telling what Preferences file I might need later for having forgotten a serial number. The shareware DropStuff utility is essential. The full StuffIt Deluxe is less essential but adds more compatibility such as tar. And probably gzip. Not really sure as I have the full thing. Retrospect from Dantz is about the only Mac backup utility available. Its that good. Its really good. I have a 3-pack of Mac remotes and 5-pack of PC remotes. My 9.1 Mac does automatic nightly backups of 3 machines at work. Writes the backups via ftp on a couple of FreeBSD machines. Have always like Nisus for word processing. http://www.nisus.com/. While I own the 5.0 version I use the 4.1.6 free-for-download version. Will wait on a full native MacOS X version of 6.x before considering an upgrade. Not sure how 4.1.6 behaves under the X Classic environment. Think I need to look into integrating GnuPG with X's Mail. I think there isn't enough time in the week to play with all my toys. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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