Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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I was at an Apple store playing with OS-X the other day. I thought the speed was roughy equal to WINXP. Both seem to be a little bogged down in the interface department. OS-X impressed me though, I severely dislike XP interface, but OS-X felt great. And I has always hated the MacOS.
The problem is price. Macs are full of things I down't want and cost way too much. For instance, the Harmon Kardon speaker looks cool and sounds better than any other case speaker, but I am going to use my own speakers. I don't need a DVD writer, which came bundled with high end G4's. I don't want integrated sound, soundblaster thank you. I would also like to choose my own HD, video card, and CD-RW, and I do want more than 4 PCI slots. And isn't it time they went to DDR and a faster bus.
Basically I want a barebones Mac, for about $1000 I can get a barebones Athlon MP 1900 dual setup. Now I don't think it is too much to ask Apple to produce a dual G4 barebones box that is less than double that.
I loved the G4s except for the price, even Sun has much lower prices now. Apple has a near perfect OS, instead of selling it to the Zealots willings to pay for Mac hardware because they love the industrial design or they have been using macs since the 80's. They should aim for the whole market, half the price and 10 times the sales. Apple's market share can be doubled quite easily.