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Kind of a stupid article. All opinion and supposition. I think everyone should wait until the new computers come out. As usual everyine is underestimating Jobs.
* Don't think I am a Mac basher as I am writing this comment on a G4 iBook.
This is what happens when you spend too much time in Macland - you lose track of how the other 95% lives :)
What this guy doesn't know - tech writer? really? - is that, clock for clock, the current Pentium M is very nearly as fast as the Athlon 64. That's the current single core Dothan P-M. By the time the first Mactels are rolling out, they'll likely be built around the next-generation dual-core Pentium-M's, and be quite credible chips. Jobs may be many things, but he's not stupid, and I suspect he got an extensive and thorough look at Intel's roadmap, and liked what he saw.
At this point there's no reason to buy a mac.
If you're a technology buff, Linux is the most advanced around.(big 3) Every feature that OS 10.4 crowed about was already available. Some months earlier, some YEARS earlier.
If you're looking for something different, anything but MS's 94% marketshare will do.
If you're looking for ease of use, that really isn't an argument, at least with the big 3.
Unless you need that one app that apple only makes for it's own machines, or you're going after(apple's marketing is it's #1 department) "coolness" factor, apple is irrelevant.
At this point there's no reason to buy a mac.
If you're a technology buff, Linux is the most advanced around.(big 3) Every feature that OS 10.4 crowed about was already available. Some months earlier, some YEARS earlier.
If you're looking for something different, anything but MS's 94% marketshare will do.
If you're looking for ease of use, that really isn't an argument, at least with the big 3.
Unless you need that one app that apple only makes for it's own machines, or you're going after(apple's marketing is it's #1 department) "coolness" factor, apple is irrelevant.
I will continue to maintain three different tracks when it comes to computers.
1. For work, a cheap Dell.
2. For home, I will continue to build my own PCs and use WinXP. It is the only platform for the good games.
3. I'll keep a cheap Mac and a Wally World Linux box in the office just to keep my knowledge up-to-date. Gnome Mahjong is the best time waster in the office.
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Nice to see that the alleged journalists devoted to Mac coverage have finally begun to see the light about Steve Jobs. :')