[mythtv-users] OT - Mac Advocacy, was; Which SVN?

[Matt Emmott]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:

>
> On Mar 10, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:
>
> > On Mar 10, 2008, at 4:29 AM, Justin Stanczak wrote:
> >
> >> And your talking about Gusty needing horse power? Not to start a
> >> flame, but I hate Mac crap. People act like Macs are so great, but
> >> they are more proprietary then MS and require more horse power to
> >> run. I would take MS over Mac any day, but I tossed them all long
> >> ago for Linux. I mean why do you think they only sell high end
> >> hardware on their site, it's all that will run Mac. Again sorry for
> >> the flame, but I was recently bothered by some Mac people. The best
> >> they could come up with was Mac is sexy. Mac would be a huge step
> >> backwards from the MS controlled world we have now. :)
>
> OS/X is basically just BSD Unix with a "sexy" frontend. Virtually any
> OSS software can be made to run on a Mac.
>
> Recently I needed the original disk that shipped with a G4 iMac. I had
> bought the machine used and the warranty was long expired.
>
> I placed a phone call, and was talking to an English-speaking American
> within a minute. I explained my need and they said they would ship the
> disk for no cost, and they would pick up the overnight shipping charge.
>
> I had my disk before 10AM the next morning.
>
> If there is a MS/Intel type vendor who provides that kind of service
> I'd like to know about them.
>
> beww
>
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Not sure what he means by "more horsepower" needed than Windows, I'm
running  10.5.2 on a 1.25GHZ G4 eMac with a gig of ram and it runs just
fine. The eMac is at least 4 years old. Apple only sells high end hardware
because that's where the profit margins are. It has nothing to do with
horsepower needed to run the OS. And for what it's worth, I'm no Mac fanboy
- I'm a Windows admin.
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