From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 11:43:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C731037B400 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EDDD43E65 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 11:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06E8228D44; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 14:43:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Jud Cc: FreeBSD LIST , Vivek Khera Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze In-Reply-To: <4Y06HCXSB876SOSPLI87TT87HBKEVP.3d473fad@sparky> Message-ID: <20020731144001.L44895-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Jud wrote: > I poked around on some Macs in a local CompUSA, having become > curious about OS X and the new iMac. OS X was slower than I > expected (not smooth on stuff like dragging windows) on the new iMacs > and eMacs, and the 15" flat-panel display on the iMac still seems a bit > small. But on the 2-processor G4, hooked up to a 22" flat screen Apple > Cinema Display, running a number of apps including an animated > mathematical simulation, OS X ran fast and looked by-God impressive. Anyone here remember when PowerPC first came out, circa 1994-1995? Macs came with a graphing calculator that would instantly graph huge equations involving x, y, z and more variables... in 3D and you could rotate and spin the graph all around... instantly! RISC was something magical then. :) > (If the folks at CompUSA had some sense, that would have been sitting > in front of the entrance rather than at the back of the store.) > Jud If the generic slobs at CompUSA had any sense at all, they would be hiding out wherever the managers and/or people in-the-know hide out in stores like CompUSA. Right? *grins* PS - That 22" Cinema display costs slightly less than your local cinema. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message