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iBooks run Debian beautifuly. I initialy used mac's because it was a cheap way to get a PPC system (if you buy form IBM they start at 5000$) PPC is by far a beter processor then x86, the Apple G3 is 64bit, and the G4 is 128bit, and while a g4 is only at 1Ghz in clockspeed right now it still beats the most powerful x86 chip on the market for MUCH MUCH less. When I got this new iBook I noticed that Darwin/MacOS X was actualy starting to be a decent OS, it's lightning fast, beautiful to look at, has amazing performance, and is just plain awesome.
I'm a network admin for a small hospitial here in northern maine (us). I manage over 500 Dell PC's every single day. I've placed a boycot on XP for performance problems (the OS itself uses up almost 512mb of ram without doing anything) as well as SERIOUS security problems. I've released patches to Microsoft for XP and they didn't even acknoledge there was a security problem (this was when the betas were released). so if it's a choice between Windows XP (since 2000 sucks for anything but business, and even there it has no real worth in enterprise computing) and MacOS X, it's MacOS X hands down.
You should keep in mind that you cant really judge a computer form your experience with it from a school, most schools have older, out of date computers, and these computers also have alot of kids abuseing them every day; moreover, they are usaly setup by a complete ***** who has no idea what she/he is doing, and in general, most people will have a bad experience with ANY school computer, I've done work for 3 schools that have PC's and 4 that have Mac's, the Mac's can take the beating of student use ALOT beter then the PC's can, and the PC's are a nightmare in a school environment, especialy when students know how to do amature stuff like editing batch files, or editing registry entries. or even get administrator and teacher passwords from stupid people who let windows create a local .pwl file.
Trust me, it's alot diferent to own one. Look at any Mac owner, and see if they are complaing, look at any PC owner and you'll never hear then end of their complaints about Microsoft and windows. Maybe there is a reason for this.
Personaly, I like jumping on my new Mac when I get in from work, it's nice to work on something that has style and personality to it instead of working with Windows day-in/day-out. I have 2linux boxes siting here besides me, 1 openbsd, 1 freebsd, and one running gnu/hurd (if you even know what that is.) trust me, when it comes to operating systems, i'm not filed under the "ignorance is bliss" catigory. I have no problem recomending a Mac to anyone who wants a good, solid, powerful computer. And I hope to see Graal ported to MacOS X so I can start playing again since I removed windows from my network ;-) |