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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2006-02-11
Apart from the running linux thing (even being a linux user myself linux as primary OS on a PPC isn't the best choice for me)
You think that the iBook it's expensive? I often hear that mac are overpriced, but find me a noetbook like the ibook 12" at the same price!!
Some machine are expensive (like the powerbook 12") but other not, and are simply better that sameprice machines