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MacCynic
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The PowerBook G4 is significantly faster than the Pismo despite their technical similarities.
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"Significantly faster" is a subjective term, and one which you would define differently than I would. I have a Pismo and I've used a TiBook and quite frankly the difference in performance did not justify the cost of a new Tibook as far as I was concerned. Perhaps when there is another 200 MHz involved I may purchase one, but I find most people prefer the TiBook because it's "pretty".
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Mac OS X is not ready for many things, I do know that. But many people forget that it is a 1.0 release - and for that, it is a good one. Your motivation to get familiar with OS X is that this will be the future. An operating system without real memory protection and pervasive multitasking (up to OS 9) is not up to date.
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I am not concerned with being "up to date", that is a subjective term as well. I believe there are versions of Windows that offer those features (and they run on machines with dramatically faster processors) and would therefore be "up to date", however I find Windows to be a less productive platform than the Mac for creative work. Since OSX does not support the software I need, I must return to the "classic" environment to get work done, I do not consider that "up to date", perhaps it is visionary.
It doesn't matter that OSX is impressive for a 1.0 release, it is a 1.0 release nonetheless and all the shortcomings it exhibits are best left to people that are hobbyists or paid to resolve such issues.
I, for one would be happy if Apple went to all G4s, because then I could pick up a G3 ibook for paperwork (yes, I do find it reponsive enogh to crank out an invoice) at a steep discount when they close them out shortly thereafter. However, I do not expect such a thing to happen
The PowerBook G4 is significantly faster than the Pismo despite their technical similarities.
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"Significantly faster" is a subjective term, and one which you would define differently than I would. I have a Pismo and I've used a TiBook and quite frankly the difference in performance did not justify the cost of a new Tibook as far as I was concerned. Perhaps when there is another 200 MHz involved I may purchase one, but I find most people prefer the TiBook because it's "pretty".
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Mac OS X is not ready for many things, I do know that. But many people forget that it is a 1.0 release - and for that, it is a good one. Your motivation to get familiar with OS X is that this will be the future. An operating system without real memory protection and pervasive multitasking (up to OS 9) is not up to date.
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I am not concerned with being "up to date", that is a subjective term as well. I believe there are versions of Windows that offer those features (and they run on machines with dramatically faster processors) and would therefore be "up to date", however I find Windows to be a less productive platform than the Mac for creative work. Since OSX does not support the software I need, I must return to the "classic" environment to get work done, I do not consider that "up to date", perhaps it is visionary.
It doesn't matter that OSX is impressive for a 1.0 release, it is a 1.0 release nonetheless and all the shortcomings it exhibits are best left to people that are hobbyists or paid to resolve such issues.
I, for one would be happy if Apple went to all G4s, because then I could pick up a G3 ibook for paperwork (yes, I do find it reponsive enogh to crank out an invoice) at a steep discount when they close them out shortly thereafter. However, I do not expect such a thing to happen
) and voila!