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Why I Will Probably Never Buy Another Mac

Linked by alcibiades on Wed 10th May 2006 19:40 UTC

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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RE: Fair enough

by rockwell on Wed 10th May 2006 20:38 UTC in reply to "Fair enough"

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2005-09-13

/ I don't regret buying my iBook. And running linux on it //

er ... you bought an iBook to run linux? Glad you don't handle my finances.

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RE[2]: Fair enough

by ma_d on Wed 10th May 2006 20:40 in reply to "RE: Fair enough"

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2005-06-29

If it's not the broadcom wireless it's not a bad investment.
It's one of the more affordable laptops which you don't wonder if it'll suddenly crap out on you; or it was 6 months ago, but laptops have come down a lot this last year.

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RE[3]: Fair enough

by dagw on Thu 11th May 2006 09:58 in reply to "RE[2]: Fair enough"

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2005-07-06

Yup, when I bought my iBook a bit over a year ago I wasn't looking for an Apple. All I wanted a small (12" screen) laptop with good battery life, wifi and reasonable performance. The iBook was much cheaper than any x86 laptop fulfilling those criteria. I've stuck with OSX mainly because it hasn't yet annoyed me enough to make me want to change.

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RE[3]: Fair enough

by snowbender on Thu 11th May 2006 20:05 in reply to "RE[2]: Fair enough"

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2006-05-04

The broadcom wireless (you mean the Airport Extreme, right?) is supported on linux now. Development on the driver is still going on, but I'm using that driver already for a couple of months now, so it is definitely working for me.

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RE[2]: Fair enough

by ra1n on Wed 10th May 2006 21:14 in reply to "RE: Fair enough"

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2006-02-11

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

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