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Hmm no wonder my ears were ringing,

I'm with ya all the way Kara, posting from my trusty dual 1.8 G5
I am actually severly pumped they just preannounced Tiger today to be released on april 29. I am a Mac head through and through course that helps in my day job as a Mac admin for an ad agency.

The Mrs. is getting a insurance settlement soon and she will de dumping Winders and getting a PowerBook and we are getting a Mac mini for the kids and a mini for for me to run Tiger server (OS X.4).

Wish I could afford my own X-Serve at home but can't have everything lol

I must say if I didn't love building them so much I'd make the switch - or if I had lots of money.

Someday ... with wealth... will come Apples. :0)

I don't have a preference..love macs, love windows....but, when it comes to video editing...Final Cut Pro OWNS ALL!!!!

Gaming would be its Achilles heel in our house too I am afraid :(

I want a mini-mac! :P

I'm an old UNIX hack from way back, but honestly, I pretty much use all operating systems with the exception of Linux (pretty funny really). I regularly use Windows, OSX, BSD UNIX & SCO UNIX. I basically live in BSD UNIX, but have been using my daughter's iBook a lot lately. OSX is a reasonably sound *nix and Apple has always made some of the best hardware around.

My two cents...

-Jason

Heh - so that begs the question why no linux?

I've always patchworked for good hardware component by component from the mobo on out - unless you are talking about OEM complete systems liek Dell vs Gateway or such (not much experience with prebuilt other than our exclusive use of Dells for win platforms here at work). Ms claus actually brought me a BFG 6800 vid card for xmas - too sweet.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Heh - so that begs the question why no linux?

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No particular reason really. It's just that my clients who use UNIX systems don't run Linux. They mostly run BSD. I'm a big fan of FreeBSD so that's what I use and promote. I really like the ports tree system and the way FBSD uses a /usr/local/etc (and other /usr/local/{dirs}) to separate the OS components from anything else installed. When I upgrade FBSD I can compile the entire OS from source, not just the kernel, with a single 'make world' command and it doesn't touch any of the application/server app libs or components- In my line of work that's a beautiful thing!

-Jason

my first family computer was an old APPLE IIc with no hard drive a 2 color monitir (lite green and dark green) (oh and black) and u put actually floppy floppies into the KEYBOARD which was about 4 inches thick

then i had a standrad dell when i turned 13 some peice o junk

but then my sis got married to a really well to do guy who decided that me and him wherer going put together the coolest computer we could and i got the prototype and he got the finished product (btw that computer i dont hook up to the net i do everything on my family computer)

Wow! Our first comp was a Texas Instruments TI-994a (i think that was the #?) Anyone ever play on one of those? The games were on a cartridge that you slid into the keyboard, just like Alex mentioned. If you blew air into them and whacked them on the desk, sometimes they would actually work for more than 5 minutes! (or maybe that's what broke them? I don't know I was around 8 years old, lol.)