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Re: From the first LEGO(r) Train Summit: LEGO(r) Trains are alive and well
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 04:28:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:
> I'm not really too worried about what he may or may not have said or thought
> or did back in 1983-84 -- it's the recent stuff that counts, IMHO. Since
> Jobs came back to Apple, things have greatly improved. Jobs has excellent
> taste knows how to hire industrial designers with excellent taste. No other
> computer manufacturer even comes remotely close, IMHO. (And I'm someone who
> has always hated Macs.)
Yeah, because what's really important in my choice of a computer is how it
looks, what shape it is, and what colors it comes in. :)
And just think, if I want to run some of those highly-tweaked Photoshop
filter benchmarks Jobs is so fond of I can marvel at my really pretty
computer that seems as fast as a PC running at twice the clockspeed. :)
> I grew up on my Apple ][, then moved on to the IBM-PC and Windows for a
> decade and a half, then on to Linux. If OSX doesn't suck, there's a good
> chance I'll switch back to Apple. I've never been so blown away in the
> computer store before.
I went C-64, Apple IIe, Mac, Mac SE30, IBM PC (DOS, then DOS+Windows), back
to Macs (only because that's mostly what my uni had), PC + Windows 3.1, OS/2
(2.1, 3, and 4), 95/98/NT/2000/ME, Linux, BeOS, Solaris. Still mostly M$
OSes on PCs now, although I have access to G3/G4 machines running 8.6, 9, and X.
If I had a need for another laptop (I have a PII-366 running Win2k and a
PIII-700 running Win2k, Linux, and Whistler) I'd probably pick up a Titanium
Powerbook once they come with OSX as an option (or once I know for sure you
can put it on yourself). How cool would a Mac gui on top of quasi-unix with
an option to run some sort of Virtual PC emulation be? That and the wide
format screen for enjoying DVD's with no wasted space... ah.
Still, it would be nice if Apple put more work into making their machines
faster and better and less into making them prettier and cooler. They fly
running those Photoshop benchmarks but they don't quite cut the mustard in
my opinion as a day-to-day machine. Which is why I'd only consider an Apple
laptop, not a desktop. I don't expect my laptop to be able to play the
latest games and such - so I could put up with the lack of real choice for
software on the Titanium Powerbook. SSH client, web browser, word
processor, text editor, mail client. Don't need much else.
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