From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 30 18:38:35 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 9AF2437B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5080B43E42 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:38:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jud@myrealbox.com) Received: from dialup-209.246.208.185.dial1.philadelphia1.level3.net ([209.246.208.185] helo=sparky) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17ZiRa-00075l-00; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 18:38:31 -0700 From: Jud To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Vivek Khera Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 21:38:53 -0400 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <4Y06HCXSB876SOSPLI87TT87HBKEVP.3d473fad@sparky> Subject: [OT] Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: Opera 6.04 build 1135 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 7/30/2002 4:59:24 PM, Vivek Khera wrote: >>>>>> "JM" == John Mills writes: > >JM> Apple has run a great series of ads in e-Week, showing that [definitely] >JM> pretty desktop and suggesting their combination of iBook and Mac OS X is >JM> the answer to a SysAdmin's prayer: sexy _and_ cute. > >Last week at O'Reilly's Open Source conference, about a billion people >were sporting shiny new PowerBooks and iBooks. Two of us had those >creaky old iBooks, too. > >The next time I need to update my desktop at work, it will be running >MacOS X. The servers will still run FreeBSD, though... 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. (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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message