Dude, form over function?! Are you kidding me? The ThinkPad runs Windows. Hello? If the airlines ran like Windows, they'd route me through Mumbai on a flight from Atlanta to New York, and planes would regularly drop from the sky for inexplicable reasons. Windows f*@! all about function.
You want raw, efficient, industrial-strength function? Install FreeBSD without a window manager and learn to love csh, lynx, perl, mysql, and gcc.
I'd take the MacBook Air. I have to do FreeBSD-thing at work, but I want simplicity and reliability for personal use. Windows is a memory hogging, slow ride to frustration. Linux is for geeks who want to pretend they know everything, but usually have to rebuild their installation 6+ times a year because they screwed up something simple and don't have someone to tell them how to fix it. Mac OS X is for when you don't mind paying a moderate price for a computer and OS that'll give you the experience technology was meant to give.
Form over function? I'm pretty sure I've got form and function in my MacBook Pro and my new iMac...and my iPhone...err, and my AppleTV. Oh, did I mention how well my Apple Extreme base station works? :-)
What can I say? I'm enamored. The stuff all works awesome. It's made information consumption and processing a dream for me and my family. And all of it cost me about $5000, which is not bad when you consider two smart phones/video ipods (I got one for my wife, too), a slim desktop computer, a high-end laptop, and an awesome digital media player/extender/internet portal for my flat screen TV. All in all, $5000 is almost cheap for all that.
Anyway, back to my point. Which is: Linux and Windows suck; FreeBSD and Mac OS X rules. Go suck a nut.
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Gian @ Feb 14th 2008 11:36AM
Dude, form over function?! Are you kidding me? The ThinkPad runs Windows. Hello? If the airlines ran like Windows, they'd route me through Mumbai on a flight from Atlanta to New York, and planes would regularly drop from the sky for inexplicable reasons. Windows f*@! all about function.
You want raw, efficient, industrial-strength function? Install FreeBSD without a window manager and learn to love csh, lynx, perl, mysql, and gcc.
I'd take the MacBook Air. I have to do FreeBSD-thing at work, but I want simplicity and reliability for personal use. Windows is a memory hogging, slow ride to frustration. Linux is for geeks who want to pretend they know everything, but usually have to rebuild their installation 6+ times a year because they screwed up something simple and don't have someone to tell them how to fix it. Mac OS X is for when you don't mind paying a moderate price for a computer and OS that'll give you the experience technology was meant to give.
Form over function? I'm pretty sure I've got form and function in my MacBook Pro and my new iMac...and my iPhone...err, and my AppleTV. Oh, did I mention how well my Apple Extreme base station works? :-)
What can I say? I'm enamored. The stuff all works awesome. It's made information consumption and processing a dream for me and my family. And all of it cost me about $5000, which is not bad when you consider two smart phones/video ipods (I got one for my wife, too), a slim desktop computer, a high-end laptop, and an awesome digital media player/extender/internet portal for my flat screen TV. All in all, $5000 is almost cheap for all that.
Anyway, back to my point. Which is: Linux and Windows suck; FreeBSD and Mac OS X rules. Go suck a nut.
Gian