[geeks] Dual Xeon vs Dual G4

[Michael Schiller]

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 08:56 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I swore I'd never buy a Mac - but then OSX happened, and EVERYTHING
> CHANGED.

I couldn't agree more! Back when I was primarily an Amiga user I swore 
I wouldn't have anything to do with a Mac. then Commodore (aka suits) 
killed the Amiga, so I went to a PC running Unix and Windows (dual 
boot), and after a while I ended up getting a Mac LCII to play with. It 
has OS6 on it, but I put OS7 on it (I just found the original OS7 box, 
with docs, and floppies yesterday at my storage unit) After using 
AmigaDOS, Macos sucked. I played with it a bit, then forgot about it. 
After hearing all the folks here talking about how great Macs are I 
bought a used one on ebay (a 5500/225) only to find out that it can't 
run OSX, so after playing with it a while I gave it to my ex for my 
stepson, and went and bought one of the 17" iMacs.

I love this machine! I used to use my Ultra-1 as my main workstation, 
and kept a Win98 machine around for the stuff that can't be easily done 
on a Sun. (and yes, I know that almost anything done on a PC can be 
done on a Sun, but I did say easily) Now my iMac is my primary 
workstation, AND my machine to grab audio/video, and other stuff I used 
to do on the PC.

Right now I'm considering removing my U1 from active service (The only 
reason I even set it up in the first place is because it had a 
creator3d card in it, and my U30 only has a PGX8 in it) as the iMac has 
really replaced it's one function (I still have other Suns that are my 
primary servers), and I really wish I could get rid of my win98 pc, but 
at the moment it's running an app that I havn't found a replacement 
for, called AuctionTamer (www.auctiontamer.com). I keep hoping that the 
authors will come out with a version for OSX so I can get rid of the 
PC, and have no x86 machines in my home!

Sorry for the long post :)

-Mike
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