hpoom | Comments | So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy

Comment from Mark H on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:58:21 +0000

And now... I contradict the whole article.

For I have now ordered a top end iMac 2.8GHz Extreme. Oh yes.

PC? Pfft. (Anyone want a nice PC for 600 quid?)

Comment from Aders on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:45:08 +0000

Hi Mark,

I did get your email, it was in my spam folder. Things is I tries adding it to my approved senders list, and it dissapeared. Damn windows enviroment and cacky software.

Anyway if you want to resend it I will send you my home email, dont want to add it here as I will only end up with even more spam. Cheers.

Aders.

Comment from Mark on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:59:30 +0000

That is superb! I have a mere two Macs at the moment (and neither is a mini ;)

There are some nasty rumours that Apple is planning to ditch the mini - an insane decision if you ask me (assuming it is true)

I always liked the mini, but its graphics "card" always meant I couldn't recommend it to nearly everyone who was about to move on from an old PC... now, if they fixed that...

Comment from adamd on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:45:01 +0000

I have just setup a complete network of Mac Minis ( intel dual core ) and an OSX FileServer. They are lovely little things and are suprisingly nippy. Although I am still struggling to find everything in OSX, must be age...

Comment from Mark on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:50:47 +0000

Ha! Hi dude! Nice to see you posting :)

In truth, all you say make sense (well, nowt new there eh? ;)

I should add that, due to my recent PC purchase, I am now a "proud" Vista home user... and as a result, I simply use the Mac more :)

Do you have a Mac again? Using the file colouring scheme? (Thanks to you pointing it out, I can't do without it now ;)

But the most interesting question to me is: did Dan leave you a bit of a tangle there? :D

Comment from Adrian Cooper on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:15:26 +0000

Hi Mark,

Back to your old grumpy fed up self then!

Only kidding. i think the Mac may still yet have some life or even a good future. The Mac Mini has sold as fast as they can produce it. An the latest offering from his Bilness aka Vista, is a load of old *****. For your average home user Vista is over the top, too complex, too memory hungry and bogged down with more sceurity than fort knox. Apple still know how to produce a great OS thats simple to use. It may take another OS release from microsoft to shoot themselves totally regards home users, unless they come out with a total re-write. But if they continue with their regime of constantly bolting on attitude and total backwards compatibility I think their OS will commit suicide without any help.

Oh, well, back to work on the catatlogue patching system. Damn I wish Dan hadn't left!

Aders.

Comment from Mark on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 17:05:22 +0000

Until RPM and versioning hell is sorted out, and things like USB support works without fiddles on common hardware... but most of all, until MP3s and other things work out of the box (in spite of the Open Source ethos), then even OS X will effortlessly to trounce Ubuntu, or any other Linux, in the home.

And don't let me get started on what happened when I swapped monitors on the Ubuntu machine I gave to my sister... (command line all the way for over an hour, yeah great!)

My only somewhat perverse hope is that the truly awful Vista will annoy so many people, that *someone* will respond. Even if it *is* Google.

Comment from hpoom on "So... my Macbook may be the last Mac I buy"

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:43:14 +0000

Good article. Not too fussed if OS X does cease to exist though as Ubuntu is getting better with every version they release.