Buying a Mac WAS RE: Re[2]: [geeks] Dual Xeon vs Dual G4

[Mike Hebel]

Chris Byrne wrote:
> Fair enough. It seems like just about everybody gave the same reasoning.
> Os9 and before sucked, OS X rocks, and g4's kick ass right ;-)

I haven't tried OS X yet but I definitely prefer my iBook over any 
Windows box I've ever had.  (I'm gonna do the 10.1 install/upgrade 
tonight if I get finished with the anime music video I'm making.)

> I never would have bought a "classic" box new, for exactly the reasons
> you describe above, but I bought a couple of used ones. I ran MacOS from
> 7.5.3 up to 9, a couple of different UNIX variants, and tried to run the
> first X beta (I never got it working properly) on them and loved them.
> I've always loved Mac hardware, and industrial design.  

I personally am partial to 7.5.3 for older Macs - especially ones with 
68lc040's in them as they have a hard time running 'nix.  Hardware wise 
they're fine usually IMHO but often you get the bottom of the barrel and 
have to hunt for parts.  Newer PPC macs I haven't had a lot of 
experience with.  Still, very sturdy machines for the most part - IMHO 
sometimes subject to mystery-meat problems where they just decide not to 
work right one day and you have to sacrifice a live chicken to get them 
to do what you want them to.  But that's thankfully rare.

> The next NEW workstation I plan to buy is a dual g4 tower. When I need
> to buy a new laptop I'm going to buy a PowerBook. 

I think my wife will eventually get an Alienware notebook but once I 
outgrow my clamshell iBook I'm going for a 17" PowerBook if I can afford 
it. ;-)

> Like most of the people here I seem to think that 2 grand is a perfectly
> reasonable amount of money to pay for a better designed computer running
> a better designed operating system. In fact it's a hell of a bargain. 

<AOL> Me too! </AOL>  I don't mind spending for quality when I can 
afford it.  I just wish everything didn't cost so much.

Mike Hebel