🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 28 May 1999, durandal wrote:

> In article
> <Pine.OSF.4.10.9905280357070.15856-100000@alcor.concordia.ca>,
> Alexander Fong <ap_fong@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
> > iMacs are for the normal joe-shmoe.  If you're a power user and want to
> > use a Mac, get a PowerMac G3 (the tower).  I don't remember the specs, but
> > they're okay for a Mac...
> Ok for a Mac? I'd take a 400 g3 over a 500 p3 - in fact we have the new
> sgi ps3 and a 400 g3 - the g3 is faster and I like pc's.

G3 is highly optimized and the system is built practically around it
(well, for OS X, that is).  I hear the G4s should be coming out in a few
years, but I haven't the foggiest idea what the specs'll look like.

> > I like Mac Powerbooks... nice, compact, fast, and do work well.  Just make
> > sure you've got all the updates and patches for your software, since Mac
> > software lately has been going unstable due to what they're doing with the
> > OS...
> What Apple is doing with the OS's is moving towards a BSD kernel - I
> wouldn't call that unstable my friend. Sure beats NT...

I'm quite aware of Rhapsody and MacOS X, but currently, MacOS8 is
basically as bad as Windows in terms of how it's been stuck together to
maintain compatability with legacy software.  It would be ideal to just
throw all those away, but for some people that's A LOT of money (and it
wouldn't be smart for Apple to do such a think).  The next best thing is
to have a transition period... which doesn't always work so well...

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                            Alexander Fong
                   ap_fong (at) alcor.concordia.ca
         Concordia University --- Montreal, Quebec, CANADA
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