Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC
I started out as a Mac user in about 1985 in a world which will be totally unfamiliar to almost all readers of OSNews. You wrote out your stuff by longhand, and a secretary typed it on a word processor. If you were lucky and able to manage it, you could dictate it. But you did not dictate into a dictating machine, because these were big heavy and expensive. You dictated it directly to someone who could 'take shorthand'. If you had a PC, it ran DOS. You looked for your files, and moved them around, started applications, one at a time, from the command line, and the command line was not pretty, it was green on black.
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2006-01-20
I agree on the fact that Apple products may be overpriced and that the attitude of the company may be quite annoying (modeled on its chief, I'd say); and I subscribe 100% on the fact that OSX is just simply dumbed down because "choice scares".
But I honestly think that the hardware they sell is of a very high quality and I don't regret buying my iBook. And running linux on it