Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:47:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills <jmmills@telocity.com> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207270936490.7902-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> In-Reply-To: <87fzy6nh58.fsf@pooh.int>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Oohhh- On 26 Jul 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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 Seconding that for the older-model (1999?) iMac my non-computer-using wife bought. I have some quibbles about features of the MacOS-8.x we got, but from the moment you cut open the box until you're registering your new family member over the net a couple of hours later, Apple is building a user-tool relationship and user confidence. I think they hit 100% as product designers. > FreeBSD system for when you feel like hacking around in a shell. Do you mean Mac OS X, or an overlay of FreeBSD on MacOS-8/9? (That's why I started out 'Oohhh'.) > 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. Apple has run a great series of ads in e-Week, showing that [definitely] pretty desktop and suggesting their combination of iBook and Mac OS X is the answer to a SysAdmin's prayer: sexy _and_ cute. I wish 'em all success. - John Mills To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.21.0207270936490.7902-100000>