From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 27 6:45:38 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 736C837B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 06:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from otter.mills-atl.com (dsl-64-192-140-77.telocity.com [64.192.140.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7228143E3B for ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 06:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmmills@telocity.com) Received: from localhost (jmills@localhost) by otter.mills-atl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA07948; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:47:33 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: otter.mills-atl.com: jmills owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 09:47:33 -0400 (EDT) From: John Mills X-Sender: jmills@otter.mills-atl.com Reply-To: John Mills To: Kirk Strauser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Peter heads back to M$FT WinBloze In-Reply-To: <87fzy6nh58.fsf@pooh.int> Message-ID: 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 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