[geeks] MacOS is VERY impressive

[Thomas Gallaway]

Ido Dubrawsky wrote:

>So for mother's day I bought my wife an Apple PowerMac G4 quicksilver off ePay.
>Today was the first day I got to set it up.  The seller sent me the system,
>keyboard, mouse, and the OS CDs (10.2 + 9.2.2).  Of course I install 10.2
>first and then realize that Apple would prefer that you first install 9.2.2
>first and THEN 10.2.  No biggie, I found the workaround.  
>
>All I can say is that this thing ROCKS!  I am quite impressed with it...of 
>course it's going to take a little effort to get my wife used to the new
>interface and some of the other changes, but she mostly uses it for e-mail,
>web browsing, and some writing...nothing very powerful.  I can see myself
>setting this thing up to do some distributed folding given all of the extra
>cycles it will have to spare (it's an 867MHz G4 with 640MB of memory and
>about 80GB of disk space).  I am very impressed...just thought I'd share.
>
>Ido
>  
>
You should upgrade to 10.3. Or wait until 10.4 comes out. I have a 15" 
powerbook 867 and a
Dual 1.25ghz g4 desktop.

-- Thomas