Linked by Mystilleef on Mon 29th Sep 2003 06:30 UTC
Linux will become ubiquitous in the year 3000. Okay, that was a horrible joke. Linux is just a kernel, the engine that runs an operating system. By itself, it is essentially useless. Kernels shouldn't be discussed or noticed by normal users. And as such when providing these users with reviews, previews and "professional" opinions, computer consultants, computer reviewers and computer journalists should not spew headlines like "Linux is not ready for prime time", "Linux on the desktop by XXX", "Linux to takeover Windows", "Linux is not ready for desktop" and so on.
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Can you please point me towards a similiarly priced new Apple computer? Thanks.
Also, I'll keep Apple in mind if I'm planning on building a cluster of 1100 computers to type my papers and post to OSNews.
All I have to say is, what a cheap piece of shit. Not cheap as in low-cost, I mean cheap as in "cheap and nasty".
No monitor, no modem, cheap substandard speakers, ugly case, cheap/crappy keyboard and mouse, and only a normal CDROM. About the only thing there worth any money is the CPU and memory modules, the rest is pure junk.
Oh and to top it all off, it is only available in the US. So for the other 5.9billion people that live outside the US, they're screwed.