[ILUG] new imac

[Hunt, Bryan]

you Apple guys ... no sense of humour ;) Liam hasn't even replied yet, maybe
Debian's taking longer than usual to upgrade ........ 

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-----Original Message-----
From: kevin lyda [mailto:kevin at suberic.net]
Sent: 08 January 2002 13:36
To: Hunt, Bryan
Cc: Ilug at Linux.Ie
Subject: Re: [ILUG] new imac


On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 12:05:38PM -0000, Hunt, Bryan wrote:
> Apples are for graphic designers and people who have loads of their trust
> fund  cash to buy their mac in Brown Thomas while flicking through the
Ikea
> catalogue.

sigh.  uncontrollable rant...

the imacs listed aren't much more expensive then similar dell systems.
one thing i really like is the swivel arm.  how many times have i tried
to move my monitor to show people something?

the fact is that apple, despite a slew of faults, designs excellent
s/w from a ui perspective, and designs excellent hardware.  and they
do tend to addopt standards from an interface perspective - scsi, usb,
ethernet, firewire.  they used all of those *after* they became standards
but *before* the peecee world ever heard of them.

i personally hope that the kde and gnome developers have access to macs
and use them as a usability goalpost, and not lame systems like cde,
aw3d or ms windows.

kevin

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