[geeks] MacOS is VERY impressive

[Benjamin Gardiner]

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

I have to say I love Mac OS X curently running 10.3.3 on my iBook G4 & 
iMac (350MHz slot loader)

the best thing I ever did was convince my mother to leave the windows 
world and buy an emac.

Cut down the amount of support I had to offer by heaps..

Benjamin