getting a Mac
Feb. 13th, 2011 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guslThe openness-effectiveness spectrum in Unix systems:
FSF-approved systems, e.g. gNewSense/Ututo - Debian - Gentoo - Ubuntu - Mac OSX
Now that I've seen a handful of Linux geeks switch successfully to Mac OSX, I am ready to make the jump myself. I'm going to order a MacBook Pro tomorrow. I visited the store on 66th St this Thursday, and playing with the multi-touch trackpad dispelled all my prejudices. Macs are no longer 1-button systems, and the merging of the button with the pad bypasses the touchpad interference issue that I had with the Dell and with most new PC laptops. I also like the feature where you can do an actual zoom of the pixels on the screen (rather than merely adjust the font-size), and that you can turn off most UI annoyances (e.g. looming icons, Exposé).
Until recently I had the idea that you can't easily write code and release it for the Mac. But now I think that's only the case with iPhones. Am I wrong?
FSF-approved systems, e.g. gNewSense/Ututo - Debian - Gentoo - Ubuntu - Mac OSX
Now that I've seen a handful of Linux geeks switch successfully to Mac OSX, I am ready to make the jump myself. I'm going to order a MacBook Pro tomorrow. I visited the store on 66th St this Thursday, and playing with the multi-touch trackpad dispelled all my prejudices. Macs are no longer 1-button systems, and the merging of the button with the pad bypasses the touchpad interference issue that I had with the Dell and with most new PC laptops. I also like the feature where you can do an actual zoom of the pixels on the screen (rather than merely adjust the font-size), and that you can turn off most UI annoyances (e.g. looming icons, Exposé).
Until recently I had the idea that you can't easily write code and release it for the Mac. But now I think that's only the case with iPhones. Am I wrong?