I wouldnt refute that at all, except you have the lack of PPC support. I like the mac OS... within reason.... theres a lot about it i dont like, but then thats true of XP. Whats amazing about AmigaOS is its windows friendy and has a full CLI where as XP did away with that in favour of a much smaller "shell" in the litteral sense, and MacOS has no CLI at all which i find intensely disturbing.
Now THATS Retro lol ...... its also a case of apple actually listening to its customers Being a person that spends a good deal of time working in a shell, i find it a very handy thing to have in any OS.
Matrix wrote:its also a case of apple actually listening to its customers
Well, if you build an OS by taking Mach kernel (or rather the whole OpenStep) as basis, add some Net/FreeBSD parts and spice it up with loads of Free/Open source software it's kinda essential to have the shell along with the pretty GUI
Not that you actually need to use the shell to use OS X, but I haven't seen any usable GUIs for the more complex tools - yet.
DHS wrote:Well, at that price one could buy the minimac, the big problem is with expandability, a factor totally absent in the new machine.
Thing is, not many people both expanding machines these days. Most just buy the odd external device as and when they need.
It'll be interesting to see if the mini sells. Most of the press has been positive (with the obvious exception of The Times, which seems to hate everything Apple does).
Me and a few of my friends were marveling at the Mini Mac - noting it is less succeptible to heat, which makes it a very good unit if one were to do a Live PA set. After my PC Upgrades, I'm getting a MiniMac and seeing if I can work Reason to being a lovely live pa computer.