[geeks] OSX is going to ruin my life

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 09:21:21AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> Let's not get confused here...  The //e wasn't a Mac.  I actually liked
> those critters (though the //c was far kinder in terms of space used). 
> Then they had umpteen years of Bad Macs, then they hit PPC, and started
> to suck less, eventually getting to the nice machines they've had for
> the past couple of years (save the iBook and original iMac).  

Ahem.  While some of the Macs were questionable, most of the older Macs were
pretty good.  In particular the Quadras (especially the AVs) rocked.

Some of them were downright clever.  A lot of people bought SE/30s because
they did a decent job of replacing much more expensive Sun or HP workstations
(true, small screen size, but able to hold lots of ram and possesing a fast
processor).  My only real complaint about them was the few brain dead ideas
(like some of the cost cutting measures in the II), and the OS which lacked 
memory protection.  And that was only a major problem if you used buggy 
applications or did development in C or other machines allowing for such
low level hardware manipulation.
 
Personally, I think the G3 chips are nice.  I really detest all the desktop
cases since (and including) the B&W G3, except for the Cube.  And all the
iMacs are really ugly also.  

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd