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Greetings and Salutations!
I'm anxiously awaiting my first MacBook, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of joe and XM radio playing in the background (Audio Visions, ambient ethereal music). I'm posting with my ThinkPad running SuSE Linux v10.0.
I'm new to the forum but not exactly new to Apple. My first experience with Apple was with the first generation Apple Macintosh. This was at work, and our comany was a solid Mac supporter. It was a pretty little machine, and it was cool even then. All the graphics were handled in firmware as I recall, and it always felt fast. Ha! It held everything on a single sided normal density "floppy" holding 400K (as in kilobytes) - "System", apps, et al. My favorite toy on the Mac was Flight Simulator.
Times changed, and our company moved away from Mac to PCs. The PC world being what it is, I did a fun personal migration to Linux, a move I'll never regret. While I'm forever saying things like "Gawd I hate Windows", more and more I've been saying of Linux, "What is wrong with you people?!" Ultimately I simply want things to work.
In recent years I worked on a real-world research project with another person. He did his work on a PowerPC running OS X while I worked on a PC running Linux. Our work was in Python. I was duly impressed with what he could accomplish with it. We were able to run our work on Sun Solaris and even some of it on a PC running Windows.
Ah, but I must cut this short. My new machine was just delivered. ^_^ I'm familiar with the two linked guides to switching, as well as some of the O'Reilly books on the Mac. I'm also holding expectations for the Mac to be what it is, without expecting it to be like Windows or Linux. This should be good.
I'll be back later.
I'm anxiously awaiting my first MacBook, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of joe and XM radio playing in the background (Audio Visions, ambient ethereal music). I'm posting with my ThinkPad running SuSE Linux v10.0.
I'm new to the forum but not exactly new to Apple. My first experience with Apple was with the first generation Apple Macintosh. This was at work, and our comany was a solid Mac supporter. It was a pretty little machine, and it was cool even then. All the graphics were handled in firmware as I recall, and it always felt fast. Ha! It held everything on a single sided normal density "floppy" holding 400K (as in kilobytes) - "System", apps, et al. My favorite toy on the Mac was Flight Simulator.
Times changed, and our company moved away from Mac to PCs. The PC world being what it is, I did a fun personal migration to Linux, a move I'll never regret. While I'm forever saying things like "Gawd I hate Windows", more and more I've been saying of Linux, "What is wrong with you people?!" Ultimately I simply want things to work.
In recent years I worked on a real-world research project with another person. He did his work on a PowerPC running OS X while I worked on a PC running Linux. Our work was in Python. I was duly impressed with what he could accomplish with it. We were able to run our work on Sun Solaris and even some of it on a PC running Windows.
Ah, but I must cut this short. My new machine was just delivered. ^_^ I'm familiar with the two linked guides to switching, as well as some of the O'Reilly books on the Mac. I'm also holding expectations for the Mac to be what it is, without expecting it to be like Windows or Linux. This should be good.
I'll be back later.