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<blockquote data-quote="walkerj" data-source="post: 588548" data-attributes="member: 9385"><p>I'm a UNIX type geek, and the Mac platform on Intel, especially in Macbook/Macbook air form factor is the best of about nearly every world you could possibly think of. Here's why:</p><p></p><p>Obviously, it's a Mac, and runs very good high quality software for many business, and a whole slew of personal management stuff all while being stylish and pleasant to look at. It's form factor is perfect, and coupled with Spaces especially it's screen is perfect for just about anything you would need to do, while still small enough to consider taking it with you everywhere. If you want to try out the stereotypical Mac user hang out at Starbucks looking erudite and pick up hippy chicks (because after using a Mac for a number of months, you're gonna want to do that despite what you might think now) since it's a bona-fide Mac, you are allowed to do that. In fact you have to do so as part of owning an Apple product that isn't a music player or phone. Apple will give you the orientation when you go pick up your unit. ;D So that covers the Mac OS X world.</p><p></p><p>It's a UNIX that is not a home-rolled open-source got-a-problem-better-ask-a-forum to figure out what .conf file you need to modify to get what you're trying to get working up and running. But if you're into that, it'll satisfy that need, and if there are a bunch of scripts you may have written that do really Useful Things back when you were a Linux head in the '90s, this will still run them. Also once Terminal is fired up it's a nice comfy, command line to settle into if you're comfortable with that. Don't want to hassle with that just now? Well, it's a Mac, so you don't have to. That covers the powerful UNIX work station world.</p><p></p><p>It's an Intel PC which can run Windows. Any Windows. Either with dual boot or virtualized. Personally I think virtual is the way to go. At my former job I managed a server running Linux that hosted several VMware virtual machines running Windows 2000 Server and ran a Windows only application with Oracle that required quite a lot of horsepower, both in terms of CPU compute-bound aspect, and I/O shifting a lot of data around aspects. Virtualization is quite mature, and is 'There yet'. This means with a Mac and either Parallels or VMware, you're set with whatever software the business world thinks it needs while suckling at Microsoft's monopolistic, Ballmer-crazy teat. So that covers the "I'm a businessman, and Bill Gates being one of the most successful businessmen out there I need to run his onerous software and equip every desk in my cube-farm with his digital crap" world. Otherwise known as the Windows world.</p><p></p><p>They're also not a whole lot more expensive than quality stuff you'd buy from Dell or HP if you spec'd them out. Quite worth it, especially if your time is billable to a client or fifty.</p><p></p><p>Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to add. Mac OS X I have found is really not something that you can intellectually explain to someone why it is so awesome, for some reason. It's really something you have to live with for awhile, get used to it's idiosyncrasies and reasons why certain design decisions were made for you to really be able to understand why it's superior to everything out there for what it does. We'd all like to go out to Gartner's website or read some column to get the succinct, tangible, metric-capable, buzzword reason which will finally convince us that we should just drink the Kool-Aid® and go with a Mac. We can't though. You just have to buy one and see for yourself. </p><p></p><p>It's kind of like marriage, because a Mac is like a woman. A very sexy supermodel woman that does things for you and to you without you asking, and without the nagging and hormones. And it costs money.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="walkerj, post: 588548, member: 9385"] I'm a UNIX type geek, and the Mac platform on Intel, especially in Macbook/Macbook air form factor is the best of about nearly every world you could possibly think of. Here's why: Obviously, it's a Mac, and runs very good high quality software for many business, and a whole slew of personal management stuff all while being stylish and pleasant to look at. It's form factor is perfect, and coupled with Spaces especially it's screen is perfect for just about anything you would need to do, while still small enough to consider taking it with you everywhere. If you want to try out the stereotypical Mac user hang out at Starbucks looking erudite and pick up hippy chicks (because after using a Mac for a number of months, you're gonna want to do that despite what you might think now) since it's a bona-fide Mac, you are allowed to do that. In fact you have to do so as part of owning an Apple product that isn't a music player or phone. Apple will give you the orientation when you go pick up your unit. ;D So that covers the Mac OS X world. It's a UNIX that is not a home-rolled open-source got-a-problem-better-ask-a-forum to figure out what .conf file you need to modify to get what you're trying to get working up and running. But if you're into that, it'll satisfy that need, and if there are a bunch of scripts you may have written that do really Useful Things back when you were a Linux head in the '90s, this will still run them. Also once Terminal is fired up it's a nice comfy, command line to settle into if you're comfortable with that. Don't want to hassle with that just now? Well, it's a Mac, so you don't have to. That covers the powerful UNIX work station world. It's an Intel PC which can run Windows. Any Windows. Either with dual boot or virtualized. Personally I think virtual is the way to go. At my former job I managed a server running Linux that hosted several VMware virtual machines running Windows 2000 Server and ran a Windows only application with Oracle that required quite a lot of horsepower, both in terms of CPU compute-bound aspect, and I/O shifting a lot of data around aspects. Virtualization is quite mature, and is 'There yet'. This means with a Mac and either Parallels or VMware, you're set with whatever software the business world thinks it needs while suckling at Microsoft's monopolistic, Ballmer-crazy teat. So that covers the "I'm a businessman, and Bill Gates being one of the most successful businessmen out there I need to run his onerous software and equip every desk in my cube-farm with his digital crap" world. Otherwise known as the Windows world. They're also not a whole lot more expensive than quality stuff you'd buy from Dell or HP if you spec'd them out. Quite worth it, especially if your time is billable to a client or fifty. Oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to add. Mac OS X I have found is really not something that you can intellectually explain to someone why it is so awesome, for some reason. It's really something you have to live with for awhile, get used to it's idiosyncrasies and reasons why certain design decisions were made for you to really be able to understand why it's superior to everything out there for what it does. We'd all like to go out to Gartner's website or read some column to get the succinct, tangible, metric-capable, buzzword reason which will finally convince us that we should just drink the Kool-Aid® and go with a Mac. We can't though. You just have to buy one and see for yourself. It's kind of like marriage, because a Mac is like a woman. A very sexy supermodel woman that does things for you and to you without you asking, and without the nagging and hormones. And it costs money. [/QUOTE]
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