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Jim Henderson wrote:
>> It's still not [yet] as easy to use.
>
> Wrong.
"Easy to use" is highly subjective.
>> Most hardware companies don't supply drivers for it, and refuse to hand
>> over the information required for anybody else to write those drivers.
>
> Wrong; this used to be the case, but not any more.
It's improving, certainly. I don't think it's there yet though.
>> If you're into gaming, forget it. Almost no big developers target that
>> platform.
>
> Hmmm, Unreal Tournament III runs on it natively, and Cedega does a very
> nice job for non-Linux games. Again, maybe 5 years ago this was the
> case, but these days there are plenty of game developers writing to
> Linux. It's not on par with Windows, true. But it's improved greatly.
Sure. It's changing. (Doesn't the latest Quake engine also run there?)
My point is that it isn't there yet.
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Warp wrote:
> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethis zbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>> Vista's getting a lot of angry comments now and it hasn't got it's
>> footprint out (yet). If MS broke backward compatibility totally now, how
>> would you think Vista would be selling?
>
> I don't believe too many people would complain if Vista broke
> compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS (which would be approximately
> the same thing MacOS X has done).
>
> (OTOH, I don't really know if Vista actually has done that. I assume
> it hasn't.)
I hear that AMD64 [finally] breaks compatibility with certain really
ancient x86 stuff. But I don't have any technical data on that...
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Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Uh, dude, isn't the whole *point* of a Mac to get *away* from M$
> products? :-P
The problem is that Microsoft is the Borg, and sometimes you just
can't avoid it. At least with MacOS X you can mostly stay away from
their OS, even if you are sometimes forced to use their office suite.
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Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> It's funny - I go into the Apple stores around here and ask to see their
> 64-bit machines, and the salesmen look at me like I have three heads or
> something. You'd think someone selling something even as user-friendly
> as Macs would know what that expression means.
Well, the whole point of Macs is that you don't have to know how
it works. No wonder salesmen don't either. ;)
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Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Uh, dude, isn't the whole *point* of a Mac to get *away* from M$
>> products? :-P
>
> The problem is that Microsoft is the Borg, and sometimes you just
> can't avoid it.
That's a familiar problem...
> At least with MacOS X you can mostly stay away from
> their OS, even if you are sometimes forced to use their office suite.
Heh. According to the guy I spoke to in the Apple shop [yes, while
wondering around Leicester highstreet, I actually *found* an Apple
shop!], Apple just haven't developed their own office suite yet. (Which
is a pitty, because from what I've heard, if Apple did an office suite
it would really 0wn...)
Presumably I can run OpenOffice instead though?
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Parallel world again!
From ebuyer, prices in GBP including VAT:
Home Basic 54
Home Premium 60
Business 82
Ultimate 106
That's for the 32 bit versions, the 64 bit versions are almost exactly the
same price.
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> Well I don't live in America, do I? :-P
Didn't they take over Asda in the UK?
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scott wrote:
>
> Parallel world again!
>
> From ebuyer, prices in GBP including VAT:
>
> Home Basic 54
> Home Premium 60
> Business 82
> Ultimate 106
Damn, that's come down a bit...
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scott wrote:
>> Well I don't live in America, do I? :-P
>
> Didn't they take over Asda in the UK?
Er... hmm, that does sound vaguely familiar...
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>> Didn't they take over Asda in the UK?
>
> Er... hmm, that does sound vaguely familiar...
Yeh I hadn't heard of them until they did that - and then when I moved to
Germany there was a Wal-Mart here, but then apparently they pulled out of
Germany and it's a Real now.
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