From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 26 18:15:24 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 E996B37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E93643E42 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 18:15:21 -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 B784528E15; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:15:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 21:15:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Kirk Strauser Cc: FreeBSD LIST Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze [MacOS] In-Reply-To: <87fzy6nh58.fsf@pooh.int> Message-ID: <20020726211013.O20468-100000@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 26 Jul 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2002-07-27T00:06:27Z, Peter Leftwich writes: > > Comments? Admonitions? Saving graces? > I won't argue preferences. I'm happy with my Unix/Linux/FreeBSD workstations, but you may not be. Go with what works best for you. > > Personally, though? Buy a Mac. No, I'm not kidding. My wife bought a new > iMac last weekend, and that little box is great. You have a terrific GUI, > lots of commercial software ready-from-the-box, and a pretty featureful > FreeBSD system for when you feel like hacking around in a shell. Yeah funny you mention that. I've thought about the iBook or Titanium G4 laptop but continue to be anti-Mac-Software and pro-Apple instead. If their portable devices came with a right-click button I'd probably bite. > After playing with it for a few hours, I doubt I'll ever again suggest > Windows to someone I don't dislike. Mac OS X is pretty, it's stable, it's > easy to use, and it's largely Unix. I can't think of a better combination > than that. > -- > Kirk Strauser > The Strauser Group - http://www.strausergroup.com/ My constant complaint still holds true (AFAIK).. I feel "constrained" on MacOS. Something about having that menubar always there annoys me, and not having a lower-left startbutton (I know, the top left has an apple icon)... and media being mounted permanently to the desktop, and icons flowing top right and over to the left and down by default and zapping P-RAM. Bleh. If cost sways me that way, we shall see. I built the PC I'm using and there is something glowing about the joy of having accomplished that :) Thanks for the advice though, honestly ;-P -- 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