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Tim Rueger <rueger@io.com> wrote:
> Since this is degenerating into advocacy, here's
> why I use a Mac:
>
> 1) Perl
> 2) Emacs
> 3) Photoshop with scanner input
> 4) Internet apps
> 5) Zero-maintenance OS
>
> Show me a cheaper machine than my Mac that does
> these things, and I'll buy it.
Not sure what Mac you have, so it's hard to know if this machine is
(or was) cheaper, but my wife's P2-350 can do all those (although she
doesn't do 1 + 2). We have Photoshop with 2 different scanners
(flatbed HP and HP negative/slide scanner), net stuff, etc.
Dunno exactly what you mean by zero-maintenance OS. A desktop machine
that doesn't ever burp is one that isn't being used, on both the PC
and Mac side of the fence. I rebuild MY machine almost monthly, but
that's because I run a half dozen OSes, use lots of beta junk, etc.
Rachael has probably HAD to reboot her machine once in the last 6-9
months. She's probably chosen to reboot it a half dozen times, but
every one of those was after a game that is known to crash from time
to time did so, and one of the suggested "fixes" was to reboot.
I made an image of Rachael's machine back in December, when I rebuilt
it after taking NT off it (didn't have to rebuild, just didn't need
the NT junk on it so I did). Haven't had to ghost that image back
onto the machine yet. To ME, that's zero-maintenance.
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| (...) I'm use a hand-me-down PM6100 (60MHz 601) that I've added memory and an L2 cache to, say $150 total. We also have a substantially more expensive Power Computing box (CPU was about $1400 in '97, we've added other stuff since then). (...) This (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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