A Dear John for Bill Gates

[Lurking Dem]

Dear Bill,

This is a very difficult letter to write. We have been together a long time. I know I had been first taken in with a more suave character. But you finally convinced me you were the one. You pushed those qualities of compatibility, availability, and variety. I fell for you.

I now realize that my initial impression was mistaken. I have to be honest here and tell you I feel like a sucker. I’m sorry if this hurts you but I’ve fallen for someone else. I know now that I have never really gotten over my first love and I’m going back to try and make that relationship work.

I’m tired of feeling like nothing but your beta tester. I’m bored with blue screens. I’m shocked at how often I have to completely disconnect from any outlet to power down. I need excitement in my life, not aggravation, and Mac, my new love, is faster, sleeker, and more powerful than you’ll ever be.

I’m sorry to break it to you this way.

Sincerely,

Lurking Dem

[GOPisEvil]

1. *snarf*

I love it! I do hope you are mailing that to the nice people in Redmond. :-)

[BigMcLargehuge]

2. He never responded to mine back in 1998 when we fell out

But Mac has been the love of my life since then.

She's getting a little long in the digital tooth though.... Almost time for an upgrade...
But I think I'll pass her along to Little McLargehuge. He seems to have a way with keys.

See the two loves of my life here (well... the keyboard of one of them...)

http://www.spymac.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=46251

[Lurking Dem]

7. What a cutie patootie!

Are you training that cherubic child to become a Geek?? :7

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. Well... I'm going to teach him to write and draw

geekdom will probably be his minor :)

Thanks for the compliment too, he is a cutie. I stare at him in awe every day, I just can't believe I had genes that good to pass along.

[wtmusic]

3. Congrats

Lurking Dem, you've seen the light!!

I'm a programmer who has programmed in assembly language on both platforms. I can honestly say I know the architecture of both inside and out--and Mac is far superior. The extra dough you put out on a Mac will be worth 10x in saved frustration.

Windows is DOS with a bad toupee, and always will be.

Enjoy!!

[Lurking Dem]

9. DOS with a bad toupee!

What a GREAT description! I may have to steal that and add it to my letter to Bill!

[Stuckinthebush]

4. I'd love a Mac

But I use my computer for serious data crunching via databases. Last time I checked, there was not a really good database program for Mac.

[wtmusic]

5. Filemaker Pro

rocks (used by Boeing and many other F500 companies), and of course MS Access is always available.

I just realized, I'm about to go 1000+!! Is this the end, or the beginning?

[thermodynamic]

6. Linux costs less, is faster than Windows, and is much more stable!

Not to detract from the Mac folk, but from my pre-OSX experience Macs were just as prone to crashing, if not more so, than Win9x.

And I don't agree with the statement that Macs use superior hardware. The video card integrated in the most expensive Mac ($2000) right now is an ATi Radeon 9000. My $200 GeForce 4600 card pummels it in performance benchmarks. $2000 Macs come with 256MB of RAM when it should be 1GB at least. Should also come with 200GB hard drives instead of puny 80GB hard drives. But I should check on this one, but I'm sure a 2.2GHz Athlon processor can hold its own against a 1.2GHz G4 as well.

Geez, Macs used to come with all SCSI components - something I liked at the time. When did Apple worm its way to IDE in order to screw the customers more?

Of course, the G5 will revolutionize everything, but I'm not paying that much for it...

Macs take away the open architecture aspect, even if their hardware is superior in some way.

[alfredo]

10. My wife's eMac sports the Nvidia chip.

It is pretty fast for a bottom line computer.

You need to check out YellowDog Linux. The Navy is using it on its Xserve boxes.
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/ As far as I am concerned, YellowDog is the best Linux distro for the Mac.


FireWire is taking over the movie industry. It is fast and a lot easier to use than SCSI. Don't get me wrong, I love SCSI, but addressing and the 6 device limit was a hassle.
Let's face it, it is a lot easier to carry around a FireWire or USB cable than a SCSI cable. Could you imaging SCSI on an iPod?

It wouldn't take much effort to plug in a SCSI card in your Mac, people do it all the time.

the G5 will come with:

High-speed AGP 8X Pro graphics bus Compared with the AGP 4X interface, the Power Mac G5’s AGP 8X Pro graphics bus effectively doubles the maximum transfer rate and doubles the amount of data transferred in a single AGP bus cycle. The 66MHz AGP 8X Pro bus strobes eight times per clock cycle, achieving a 533MHz data rate and a maximum bandwidth of 2.1GB per second — ideal for the ultrafast graphics cards it ships with, like the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra.

The new OSX will conform to Pixar standards.

Of course if you want to develop for UNIX:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

If you want some nifty Nix apps:

http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php

[Lurking Dem]

11. I have NO idea

what you just said. Damn that was sexy! :+

[Cha]

12. I bookmarked this thread for whenever it comes time to

get a new computer. I just got my Dell last year with WindowsXP...so I'll be using it for awhile but when I need a new one I'll keep all this in mind! :-):linuxrules: