Opinions of local OSX dealers?

[scottprive at earthlink.net (Scott Prive)]

I used OSX for the first time today... WOW.

While I had some fondness for the old Macs and I had a G3, I ditched it
because it didn't have proper memory protection (and I had one too many
Error 11). Consider this a disclaimer... I'm just trying to say I'm not
predisposed to being an "Apple fan".

The tools are there, and it seems easy to just add more. I haven't used it
enough to judge the stability. Performance was better than I expected, and
the graphical responsiveness of the system was awesome. I think this ibook I
used today was only 500MHz, but the desktop is designed to offload
everything GUI onto the video card... and it really shows. Windows are not
bitmaps anymore... they are mapped textures onto OpenGL.

The "panel" is a work of art... small, stays out of the way. The icons on
the panel are truecolor, real world images... they don't look like icons. I
moved the mouse over the icons, expecting tooltips... you don't need them.
The icons "bloomed" under the cursor, so I knew what they were. This was a
12" laptop screen.

I guess if I owned an ibook -- and I want to -- I would mostly miss the
monitor-out (I didn't see one), and the keyboard is less comfortable (for
me) other laptops I've used.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Chambers" <jc at trillian.mit.edu>
To: <discuss at blu.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 5:15 PM
Subject: Opinions of local OSX dealers?


> For the usual various reasons, I'm strongly contemplating getting  an
> OSX  laptop  and  start  comparing & contrasting it with my two linux
> boxen.  A bit of research has resulted in the general impression that
> the  various  online  sources  don't  have  any  discernable price or
> support advantages  to  apple.com,  though  I  probably  missed  some
> evidence.   There's  still  the  question  of whether any Boston-area
> retailers would be better than ordering via the Net.  So does  anyone
> have any comments pro/con any local Apple outlets?
>
> The advent of  OSX  does  seem  like  a  challenge  to  the  historic
> separateness of the Mac and Unix crowds. I suppose it's just a matter
> of time until we start seeing a merger.
>
> Of course, that's not nearly as odd as  seeing  IBM  jumping  on  the
> linux bandwagon.
>
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