The biggest mistake I made in my life was to stick for too long to MicroSoft Windows. I should have switched to Apple Macintosh OS (or, alternatively, Linux Ubuntu) long ago. I am going to buy a MacBook Pro 17″-, next month.
- Bill Gates and Steve Balmer are 2 idiotic bullies, who never cared about usability, but about expanding their monopoly, rather.
- Steve Jobs is a little dictator, granted, but he has been focusing solely on user experience.
- I have researched the Apple Macintosh for one week, and I found out only positive reviews. (George Tziralis told me that the MacBook Pro batteries might be a weak point, though.)
- Now that the Internet (and “-cloud computing”-) is the center of the Universe, we don’-t need PC standards anymore. The PC is just a client —-so that PC could well be a Mac or a Linux.
- I know that Windows 7 is coming, and I know that it is going to be better than Windows Vista (which is a calamity), but I am never going back to MicroSoft again. N-E-V-E-R. Period.
- I have suffered 2 terrible crashes this past month, with lost of fresh data. I see that Apple Macintosh has developed a “-Time Machine”- and a “-Time Capsule”- to back up data. I am going to use that.
- ADDENDUM (following Jed’-s comment): Most of the open-source software packages which I work on are also available for the Mac OS platform.
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If you don’t care as much about screen size and want to save some cash, the standard MacBooks are great machines. I’ve had mine for over two years of hard abuse and it’s still going strong.
That said, my next laptop will probably be a MacBook Pro because of the screen size.
Mac’s are now UNIX at their core, which is nice, and you can get Windows virtualization software for pretty cheap if there are PC-only programs you still need to run. Have fun shopping.
“PC-only programs you still need to run.”
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Nice feature. However, most of the open-source software packages I use do run on both platforms, so I am fine.
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/…..9257.shtml
http://www.businessweek.com/te…..5_2021.htm
http://www.buzzmachine.com/200…..r-mr-dell/
If you don’t care as much about screen size and want to save some cash, the standard MacBooks are great machines. I’ve had mine for over two years of hard abuse and it’s still going strong.
That said, my next laptop will probably be a MacBook Pro because of the screen size.
Mac’s are now UNIX at their core, which is nice, and you can get Windows virtualization software for pretty cheap if there are PC-only programs you still need to run. Have fun shopping.
“PC-only programs you still need to run.”
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Nice feature. However, most of the open-source software packages I use do run on both platforms, so I am fine.
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/…..9257.shtml
http://www.businessweek.com/te…..5_2021.htm
http://www.buzzmachine.com/200…..r-mr-dell/