Star One-Third of Slashdot Readers Find the Mac 'Very Tempting'
Linked by Jim Vanaria on Fri 4th Oct 2002 21:25 UTC
Apple When it comes to using computers, it used to be (and still rings true today) that most people find the Mac platform to be either loathsome or lovable with few spectators taking middle ground on the issue.
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Apple's move to Open Source is attractive
by Anonymous on Sat 5th Oct 2002 04:54 UTC

but it's just a marketing gimmick.

I'm irked by what they did with Jaguar--i.e. charge existing OSX users for what is essentially a bugfix release. I'm angry that the ibook comes with a soft modem and the driver is not available. As soon as Yellowdog comes up with a working driver, I think our house will be 100% Linux again. Linux has way more Free/free software. Yes, I know about fink, but "Fink will not officially support Mac OS X 10.1 anymore, we are gearing all our efforts towards 10.2." And it was not a good solution to begin with, because if you're going to have to install X11 you may as well install Linux and get the whole ball of wax.

The ibook would be a nice little machine if not for Apple's proprietary software.