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 actually went out and bought the full MacOSX.1 I thought the $119 I paid was a bargain compared to the what a full non-upgrade price for WinXP would cost. I found a utility that allowed me to install it on my 7300/200 Mac. Very slow, but I love it! I am ready to fork over money for a new mac, but they don't have a machine that suits me. I don't want a n iMac. I want a tower with a G4. I want to spend no more than $1500. The only thing close is a G4 with the EDUCATIONAL discount, at around $1200. Thats a stripped down 533MHz, bare CD-rom, 128 meg machine. I know the G4 is very powerful, but 533?? I can go get a dell 1.4GHz for $999 with no discount with a CD-RW or DVD. I guess I will keep waiting till they have a model more for me. An iBook is almost a better deal. I guess they make up the price on the OS in the hardware. One things for sure... there will be NO .Net, passport, or WinXP product activation in my future !!!
Great article Scot. i enjoyed reading it.