"Poke around the net for a while searching for information on what it's like to switch to a Mac, and you'll quickly get a face full of hyperbole, zealots, platform bigots, feature weenies, and naysayers - from both the Windows and Mac camps.
But there are precious few places to get an honest word about what it's like to switch, other than some deeply technical face-offs. So, I've been taking notes for the past few years, and thought I'd write them down."
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Member since:2005-10-06
So I am think maybe you MAC PowerBook Pro maybe not best option? Maybe not good with compupoturs? Maybe you try different softer!!!! Linux softer? Windows softer? It fulled worked!
Mac systems NOT MADE FOR PEOPLE HOW WANT TO KNOW HOW SOMETING IS MADE! Errors messages compiling from source!
Seriously, stick with Linux and your cabal of IRC friends that have absolutely no grasp of written English. It's not Apple's fault you didn't do any research into these things. I had OpenSUSE running under Boot Camp and Parallels pretty easily and found DarwinPorts fairly effective, if somewhat different from the Apple way of organizing your filesystem.
Member since:2005-07-09
I honestly don't really know what you mean in a lot of your post, nor do I know what you mean by "MacPorts". If you're talking about ports (as in connections to connect peripherals, then they're the same as with PCs. USB, Firewire, RJ45 10/100 (and 1Gbit sometimes), RJ11 Modem, etc... It's all the same.
As for compiling software - I switch from a "PC" and Linux because I was sick of it. I wanted my software to just work. It's not that compiling software was hard for me (I used Linux for about 7 years), but it just got tiresome. It's sometimes great to know how your computer works down to a source level. In my opinion, however, your average joe user simply doesn't care. Most just want music, a web browser, email, word processor, and perhaps a chat program. They don't want to do any "work" to get that working either. Even still, if you want to dive "deep" and compile software, it's really not too much different from Linux. You've got a terminal with bash and developer tools.
I personally was willing to give up being able to dive *deep* into my system for things to "just work" like I have already said. I've had my Powerbook for wow, 2 years now and I haven't had a single hiccup (knock on wood..) - it has been the best laptop I have ever purchased.
By the way, I think you mean Macbook Pro 
Member since:2006-09-24
I honestly don't really know what you mean in a lot of your post, nor do I know what you mean by "MacPorts". If you're talking about ports (as in connections to connect peripherals, then they're the same as with PCs. USB, Firewire, RJ45 10/100 (and 1Gbit sometimes), RJ11 Modem, etc... It's all the same.
Oh dear. Not to be a total dick but if you don't understand what he meant by ports, you needed to stop your post right about there. You're not qualified to continue on. He meant ports as in BSD ports tree for compiling software, and he's absolutely correct. None of the BSD ports trees will work and the Darwin ports are pathetic.
Member since:2006-06-02
I'm sorry, but your post makes no sense at all. You spend 2800 dollars without doing a little research to know something of what you are purchasing? What is the point of buying a Mac to prove that OS X is not OpenBSD? You got modded up to 3 for this absurdity?
I suppose one good thing will come out of your wasting the resellers time and money is that someone will get a good deal on a refurbished "Powerbook Pro" or what ever it is you claim to have bought (MacBook Pro?).
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2006-04-19
I bought a PowerBook Pro I think it was, the 2800 dollar model, and return it in a hurry.
I returned it because I wanted to use the ports, only to find that I have to use MacPorts, but didn't get it working. I downloaded some source and compiled the software source code but had nothing to do it with. So I downloaded and installed the 900MB development softer, that sounded like it had some compliers to configure and make, make install, all that, but had errors messages trying to compile software from source. Tried using a few typical BSD commands and that got nothing.
I tried an openSUSE DVD, that didn't work, tried it in Parallels, that didn't work. It booted my OpenBSD CD, but I didn't try to install it to see if it fulled worked the way I normally use it.
So I am think Mac systems are not for people how want to know how something is made, how it's put together, and people who want to write software that is platform or OS independent. So I have zero respect for Macs, can't stand them, not until and I can customize source code and compile it for any program I want and install it. Since BSD seems to be built around developers and not end users, I find the configuring and compiling really simple and consistently smooth, so that's my preference.