[geeks] I'm part of the Mac Club now!

Peter L. Wargo pwargo at basenji.com
Tue Apr 9 17:33:16 CDT 2002


On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Martijn Pronk wrote:

> Great news, I'm typing this from my new iBook...

Cool!

> And i must say, it is a very nice machine... Needs a bit more memory,
> but that will be taken care of.  MacOS X is absolutely beatifull, stable
> and not too slow (Have a 600 MHz G3).

512M is the sweet spot, from what I hear.  My iBook SE/366 has only 320M,
so it can be a bit tardy.  Such is life.

> And now for the funny things of this, Got Microsoft Office X for it,
> read some documents on the Office X CD in PDF format! Thats just not
> M$ like, never seen any PDF docs written by MS...

MS's Mac team is cool.  They realize that, since PDF is the 2D display
model, it's a good idea to put release notes and such in *that* format.

-Pete



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