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That's a reasonably good deal for a big LCD screen and a G5 processor and it looks like a nice general purpose computer to me. I don't get excited about computer hardware looks, but this looks very nice and attractive.
I am unhappy with my Windows XP home computer. It probably needs a re-install, since it's been a whole year since I installed the OS. Every other time, photoshop doesn't start, and it sometimes freezes transferring photos from my card reader (IDE on it's own channel) I don't surf the internet on it or do email on it - ever. Windows update is the extent of it. If I want to download an application software update or an internet image, I download it in linux, which my Windows computer is mapped up to, so I can then extract and install it. I also have norton AV on it just as standard procedure. I don't trust Windows for web surfing and internet. I run an ISP and I know what happens first hand from dealing with customers computers. Spyware and virus/worms are a bigger problem than spam.
I can't replace it with one of these cool looking macs since the only thing I use the computer for is color managed photo editing and printing. I prefer to use a CRT screen for this. Looks like the only substitute for this would be a big G5 tower. But for the cost of a G5 tower, I could buy a REALLY NICE LENS or or other camera equipment like a D2H body. If the big towers were cheaper, I'd be very apt to buy one.
I also have a Windows notebook. If I "put it to sleep" DHCP doesn't always work properly after it wakes up at a new location, requiring a full restart, so I always shut it down and start it back up, login, etc.. after taking the computer home, etc.. It also runs Windows because there are a couple windows only programs I can't do without. Mostly it gets used to run Cygwin, so I can use linux X-windows anywhere in the house. Otherwise, I'd run linux on it.
The mac notebooks are very nice, but they only have one mouse/touchpad button. I've been using two mouse buttons forever (since ms-dos and windows run-time days), and three mousebuttons since my first X-windows decstation in 1993, and linux since then. It's tough enough with only two buttons on my notebook.
MacOS, like Windows, is not as fast a system as it could be. We had a G3 at the office here that was a little chunky slow running MacOS a couple years ago. We put BeOS on it as another boot option, and it absolutely screamed! So if someone tells me the mac is a very powerful fast computer, I agree that it is, but the OS slows it down a fair amount.
The first network I ever setup was between a mac and a PC using something from Sun which let the two communicate via some special appletalk hardware. Then I setup a Windows for Workgroups network with BNC 10base2. I've also use netware lite, netware 3 and 4, crosstalk,..., xdmcp, ppp, nfs, samba, you name it. I'm not a frustrated windows illiterate, but a seasoned computer professional with miniscule patience for Windows.
What we need is for Apple to sell their OS for PC hardware. This would pressure Microsoft more than Linux ever has or will, and it wouldn't hurt Linux at all.
posted by 69.39.1...
, Sun, 12 Sep 2004 20:38:39
, Tue, 31 Aug 2004 23:10:44
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