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BTW, Macs are Awesome.
Oh hi. I forgot to mention. Macs are awesome. Your next computer should be a Mac, assuming you just want a computer where you can do general average day to day stuff and Get Things Done.
If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.
However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.
Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.
See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html
He says it better than I do.
If you want to do a specific weird thing (yes, hardcore computer game nerds, that mostly does mean you), then alright, you have special needs, and probably need more thought than just buying a Mac will necessarily get you. You already have the mad skillz needed to go do that. This message isn't for you.
However, for everyone else, if you just want to get connected to the internet, do email, browse the web, maybe do some word processing, download pictures off your digital camera, maybe upload some pictures to the interweb, even have automated hourly backups done for you... then absolutely just get a Mac already.
Oh, and if you're a unix tech-head, you really want a Mac too. Just think, a real Unix OS with a consumer grade UI on top.
See: http://morganjaffit.livejournal.com/34058.html
He says it better than I do.
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The iPhone is essentially an ARM based computer running Mac OS X, glued onto a mobile phone.
This meant that they had to pull a lot of OS X kernel/OS people over to iPhone... and that had unfortunate consequences for Leopard. That's why Leopard lacks some of the polish that Panther and Tiger had, and was somewhat buggier on initial release than the previous two.
Things should get better from here - the ARM port should be relatively stable now, and I don't think there's any plans to introduce another chip platform any time soon. :-)
Sure, I expect them to bring out a tablet with full touch screen, but that'll be low power Intel, I'm guessing.
And, well, plugging 3 giant USB fat32 drives into a PPC machine isn't exactly a common regular every day thing. Heck, plugging 3 giant USB FAT32 drives into any machine isn't exactly a common thing. FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform. I wouldn't expect that to behave particularly well on any platform, let alone an old platform that's essentially been end-of-lifed.
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Works well enough on my decidedly ungrunty eeePC (and my oldish Linux machines). Apple's also confirmed it's still an issue on their latest PPC G5 kit.
FAT32 is kinda crappy and unreliable all on its own, regardless of platform.
It's the highest common denominator as far as cross-platform supported filesystems go, unfortunately.
I gather the issue's been sorted out in FreeBSD (where Apple sourced its mount_msdos code, but, Apple hasn't bothered updating its port. Sort of like how Apple dragged its heels updating BIND9 despite intense public pressure, but, there's no particular pressure on this issue... so they likely won't bother until it becomes an embarrassment. 1G external drives are becoming commonplace, so I'd expect it to grow in impact as time goes on.