Mac G4, OS X

[Rod Hagen]

Hi gang, I am supposed to get a Macintosch G4 PowerBook this week. It will of course have the new Unix based OS X. Does anyone here have experience with either of these? Boston Guy? Good or bad?

 

THANKS

 

Hagen

 

http://www.rodhagen.com

[CT Dick]

I have no experience with either but the fact that you are a Mac-guy just raised you in my esteem.

 

Mac-ingly yours,

Dick

 

PS Hopefully we can compare Macs someday.

[trilingual]

Gosh, can I come over and drool on your new Powerbook? I'm a Mac loyalist myself, but I'm pounding away on an iBook (I'm REALLY fond of it). I'm using OS 9.1; right now there's little software on the market for OS X and all of mine would operate under the Classic system, so there's not much point for me. Some recent reviews also suggested hanging off until later this year on OS X until some revisions and bugs are worked out. But if there isn't much software yet that takes advantage of it, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference. The Powerbook itself is too hot for words. Go for it, and have fun using it!

[Guest cmp]

Hi Rod. I don't have any experience with Mac's, but I happen to be a Unix specialist. I understand your new toy will be running Unix. So if you ever have any Unix related question, please post it and I'll be happy to help. Off-topic, judging from your reviews and postings, you seem to be a very special person.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Titanium??

 

Hot machine, hot operating system

 

It'll take a little time to roll out the apps for OSX and to squeeze out a few bugs but, unlike Mr. Gates, Apple doesn't make you pay for the fixes :-).

 

Want one myself... but most of my money goes these days to a kitchen renovation and to other hardware purchases... well short-term rentals mostly. ;-)

 

Envy...