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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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
Member since:2005-11-09
I know... My iBook's only problem in the 2+ years I have owned it is a misaligned combo drive due to me dropping it on the floor from my couch. My battery has lost its life, but that happens when you use a machine every single day for hours at a time.
My P laptop was in the shop 5 times for a week at a time. I think it speaks for itself.
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I use Fedora Core PPC and Gentoo PPC on 2 ibook G3.
It works OK but compilation for Gentoo PPC and yum/yumex on FedoraCore PPC take a lot of time.
Apple did sell expensive hardware at high prices with a slow slow CPu ...
I used Linux on these systems because MacOs X was so damned slow ...
I miss on these systems things such as Flash (swf) support in browsers - Blame it on Macromedia - and
Vmware ...
Clearly I will buy a DualCore (Asus or Acer) to be more productive (and will consider Asus or Acer)
with PCLOS + Debian ...
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2006-01-20
I agree on the fact that Apple products may be overpriced and that the attitude of the company may be quite annoying (modeled on its chief, I'd say); and I subscribe 100% on the fact that OSX is just simply dumbed down because "choice scares".
But I honestly think that the hardware they sell is of a very high quality and I don't regret buying my iBook. And running linux on it