The devil will always give you lots of reasons to convert you.... Do not always take the smooth path, the rough path sometimes...... is the right path.
:-D Cheers, -Ryan Oh BTW - Macs are EVIL. On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 02:47:47 -0500 Leif K-Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Edwin - wrote: > > >Just by reading this -> http://www.apple.com/macosx/ esp. > >these last two sections: > > > > * Solid as a rock > > * Developer's dream > > > >would give people reason to consider and even "switch"... > > > Mac OS X is fairly stable, I'll give you that. As for > "developer's dream", that's a matter of opinion. Of course! But imagine your "Super Graphics Designer" decided to start coding. Where can you run QuarkXPress, Photoshop, Illustrator, Shade, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, PHP, Java, Perl, Apache, MySQL, etc. ALL at the same time? That, without even worrying your OS might crash? > >One of Japan's most prestigious universities, Tokyo > >University, just purchased 1,149 "customized" iMacs and 53 > >Xserves--all running OS X, of course. They weren't the > >first one though. A university in Nagoya City has also > >bought more than a thousand of those. > > > Yep, Macs are being bought. Same can be said for > Intel-compatible hardware running Linux and Windows. True. But the ones I mentioned above were not bought just for "casual" use. Let's say, it's more for those "mission-critical" projects ;) > >Imagine this. > > > >I've just finished recording a re-run of "Dark Angel". > >I've cut the commercials, added chapters, and now it's > >ready to render and burn into a DVD together with the > >previous episode(I can put two in one disc). While > >waiting, I'm listening to my fav music on MP3s and > >debugging some of my PHP scripts. Oh, and did I mention > >that I'm doing all of this while copying voice/music from > >cassette tapes to the hard disk so that I can turn them > >all into MP3s? > > > >And did I mention that you can do all of the above just by > >installing Mac OS X and one software called Toast? You > >don't even need to install Apache, sendmail, etc. (and of > >course PHP) for testing since they're "part" of the OS > >installation. > > > With a DVD burner and video capture equipment. Yes. But the DVD burner comes as a standard these days. > Oh, and my iMac doesn't even have a sound in port. Hmmm... I'm not aware of that. The new ones have though... > Apache, sendmail, and PHP are also standard on most Linux > distros. Correct. > >Do you need to ssh to your remote server? No sweat. The > >"terminal" is part of the OS as well. There you can just > >run the ssh client and login to your remote server. Btw, > >you can*also* customize the looks of your terminal. I like > >mine semi-transparent, with a prompt that looks and feels > >like I was back in those DOS days ;) > > > Same for all Linux distros. True. > >Yes, I can do those and more on my Mac. And it doesn't > >even crash on me even if I do many things at the same > >time. I could run it for months! The only time I really > >needed to reboot it is when I added a new Serial ATA RAID > >card. Now, I'm really missing "the blue screen"... > > > Linux is stable too. Of course! Don't get me wrong. I use Linux as well (both at home and office). The above was basically for people who think "Macs are evil" ;) > My iMac is dirt slow, and cost $1000. Mine's fast, and it costs $4,000. And I'm about to have a FASTER one. The best thing is, I'm not the one who's paying for it (-> company). Of course, I can't keep it but I can play with it ;) > But I bought my old iMac back in 2000-ish. Maybe Macs have > become better since then, I don't know. Yes, even iMacs are better. But imagine what you can do with a Dual 2GHz G5, 8GB of DDR400 RAM, a terabyte of Hard Disk space, Radeon 9800 Pro, an Apple 23" Cinema HD Display, and the latest OS X (Panther). Nah, I don't need all of that... but maybe I can convince my boss to buy it ;) - E - __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! BB is Broadband by Yahoo! http://bb.yahoo.co.jp/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
