Mac-to-PC ration on TFL

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Marko Kloos

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I was just reading through the file conversion thread, and noticed that quite a few folks on TFL are Mac users. I thought I was just about the only Mac owner here, considering the user ratio within the general populace. I just bought a new iMac (traded in the old one, kind of like I buy new guns), and I use an older PB520 for writing.

Fess up, folks...anybody else using the superior platform? :)
 
At home I use an old 66MHz Mac. It's so slow that my 56.6K modem transfers data way faster than my computer can read/write it. I get a lot of crashes that way. Got my eye on an iMac G3 though. Sam's club has one for about $700.


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"Fess up, folks...anybody else using the superior platform?"

Superior Platform?.... Yes I believe as a target they work real well.... :)

PC vs. Mac wars round 3 to begin.



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Richard

The debate is not about guns,
but rather who has the ultimate power to rule,
the People or Government.
RKBA!
 
I have always used a Mac. The entire school district uses Macs so it makes sense. I currently have a Powerbook G3, so I can take it anywhere!!! ;)
 
How about: NT at work, Mac OS9 (worth getting, just about doubled the speed and reliable, too) *and* Windows 98 at homs...and Linux for the Web site.
 
I'm on a mac all day at work, and at least an hour at home. Using a Blue and White 350 G3 at work, and a 333 Imac (green) at home. We also use an NT machine at the office for occasional GIS work. Oleg, maybe I can ask you some NT questions sometime.

OS 9 is great, it just uses a little more ram.

Gun owners make great Mac users! We're anti-establishment, staunchly devoted, highly opinionated, and extremely good-looking :)

--Mercator
 
My main machine is a G3/400 running Mac OS 9 with 400MB RAM with two monitors. That's my graphics monster and my primary portal to the Net. Of the various systems in my basement (I have a T1 and run a Web hosting provider out of my house) some include: Sun SPARCstations running OpenBSD, AMD K6 systems running OpenBSD, Intel Pentium MMX systems running Linux, Apple m68k systems running Mac OS, NetBSD or OpenBSD and finally a NeXTstation running OPENSTEP 4.2.

I don't rely on any single system. I'd say that I'm a Mac OS advocate first and a UNIX advocate second. I only use Windows when I'm forced to.

Here is my OS war rant. It's rather harsh. I never really got around to finishing it. Just realize that this rant is more focused to 13 year old hacker wannabes who have no idea how a computer works and say that their computer rocks because, well, it's the only computer they've ever used.

Every OS sucks...but the OS that you choose just seems to suck less. That is what I say every time I see an OS war erupt. Windows versus Mac OS versus BSD versus Linux. It doesn't matter. They're all the same. A simple user interface that allows an end user to control a piece of hardware. That's all it boils down to, although each OS takes a slightly different approach.

Each OS is suited for a specific purpose. If someone says that every other OS sucks and their OS works for every task they do, then they're either a liar or incompetent. If they honestly think that the OS that they use can complete every single task they'll ever need a computer to do and have never run more than on OS to compare it to, then they are not enough of a power user to comment on the abilities of other operating systems.

Every OS has its strengths and weaknesses. Strengths that make it excel at a certain task (OpenBSD and security) or suck at a certain task (Windows 95 and security). But, no matter how amazing an OS is, there are alternatives. And chances are that each of those alternatives does a task pretty damn well. It probably also does some tasks better.

Either way, if an OS works for you, than it is the best OS you can run. If an OS does not work for you, than it sucks. For you, and you alone.

/Sciri/

[This message has been edited by Sciri (edited February 11, 2000).]
 
G3 233 Mhz user here. Can't wait until I can get a G4. I switched from PC to MAC because it is simpler and more user friendly to a computer dummie like me.

Come to think of it my old PC might make a good target, it gave me enough trouble when I was using it.


Geoff Ross
 
About the only reason I would get a Mac is if it came with OS10, which will shell to Linux. :D

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"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
-- Samuel Johnson
 
TFL Stats for the past 2 weeks by number of requested pages:

Windows: 94.2%
Mac: 3.1%
Unknown: 1.2%
Web TV: .8%
Unix: .7%
OS2, RISC, Amiga: .06%

Rich
 
Work: Windows 98, Windows NT,Mac OS 7.5.1 - 9.0, and Free BSD 2.7.7 - 3.4
Home: Windows 98, Mac OS 8.5.1, and FreeBSD 3.4

This is spread out over 7 computers at home and I will NOT do a listing LMAO
 
#1) Sun Ultra 2, dual 200 MHz cpu's, 256 MB RAM, Creator 3D graphics, 100 Mbit Ethernet, Solaris 2.6. Not to flame, but A REAL COMPUTER, good people.

#2) Compaq Deskpro, Pentium 2-233 MHz?, 32 MB RAM, 10 Mbit Ethernet, Matrox Millenium Graphics (4MB Video RAM?), Win 95.
 
My G-4 was supposed to be here in the office at the end of january.. So I'm sitting here with a 20 inch display for the g-4 that looks like half an egg with a graphite cover.. but still wimpy powermac 7300-200 running it. (i've been a mac user for 8 years)

I'm not sure WHAT the I/S guyys are waiting on.

For digital photography I'm supposed to be issued a g3 power book with my megapixel cam.. but that may change if we upgrade cameras as well.

Thinking about getting an ibook to throw in my dry bag along with my soprt-utility rifle on my next camoe trip, cause you never know when you might wanna do color correction of your photos.. and with a new tangerine iLINK, maybe I could even check my e-mail or check in at TFL. ;)

Dr.Rob


Dr.Rob
 
Home:
1) PowerMac 7500 (604e/233)
2) PowerMac 6100/66
3) Indigo2 R10000 (currently under the weather)

Work:
1) P-III/400 clone

Oh, well. Got my eye on that new G4 when the speed bumps hit sometime this/next month (and the IRS gives me some of my 0% APR loan back...)

-Jon
 
Keep in mind that I mostly brows from PCs but do real work on Macs...skews the stats. I have noticed Windows leapfrogging macs in some ways and falling behind in others. BTW, you can run UNIX flavors on Mac hardware.
 
Coinneach: Just FYI, you'll be shelling out to a BSD style UNIX with a Mach kernel, not Linux. :) Still, there are some parts of the Linux kernel that have been folded into Mac OS X Darwin.

ckurts: That's about what I have on my desk here at Lucent. :o

/Sciri/
 
I wonder if there is a correlation between your gun and your computer? My favorite gun is a Frankenstein 1911, and my comp is a pieced-together PC.

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"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." -Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-8.
 
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