[ale] RE: New Apple chip

[miguel]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 10:09, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Tuesday 24 June 2003 09:17 am, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > Rebuttle:
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> > http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/
> 
>  
> The article referenced above rebuts Apple's claims to
> a gain in chip/bus speed over Intel and other PC chip
> makers.
> 
> Processor speed is certainly _one_ benchmark of a computer
> system. But I would argue that when we are talking about
> desktop systems, speed today is almost irrelevant.
> 
> Speaking as a PC user who finds the "cute" factor of Macs
> distasteful at best, the Apple products do have some things
> going for them way ahead of what is available to me with
> Linux.
> 
> The new Apple G5, according to Jobs, will have built in fax
> capabilities. Also built in will be the new Firewire standard,
> gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and other more Apple-centric goodies.
> 
> 
> Are most of these features available to me. Yes, I suppose they
> are; but not without a _lot_ of hassle. By way of example, I have
> yet to get a memory card reader to work correctly on this box --
> RH 9.0 -- and it will take me hours of frustration to get the
> scanner working again. No such frustration with the Mac.
> 
> On the down side, although OSX is apparently based on BSD and
> has a terminal program, it is _not_ trivial to become root on
> this operating system and actually change some of the niddling
> aggravations. Also not trivial is Apple's continued insistence
> on a one-button mouse.
> When, not if, Linux surpasses Apple in the number of installed
> desktops, manufacturers will begin developing Linux drivers
> for their products and adding them to the boxed package. With
> any luck that point will be reached in the next 24-36 months.
> 
> If HP were to offer a scanner with included Linux drivers today,
> I'd buy it tomorrow. Regardless of price. Same goes for a memory
> card reader.
> 
> Sean
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hmmm. HP does have linux drivers for scanners, but not included...what
diff. does it make? just download it. i will check if the driver page is
external.



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