Market share: Windows vs Linux vs Mac vs ??
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 01:04:26 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> A Mac is very expensive compared to a PC. So they sell just a few.
>>
>> The difference is not as extreme as it used to be if you compare
>> equivalent specifications. But Apple doesn't like to give updates
>> away, so be prepared to buy the ilife package and perhaps OS X several
>> times during the life of the box.
>>
>>> My wife thinks a Mac is easier to use than Windows XP. So my next
>>> computer purchase is a Mac.
>>
>> Note that you'll get the unix command line goodness that linux also
>> inherits along with a desktop GUI that 'just works' - and usable
>> firewire drivers. You may not appreciate the value of working
>> firewire support until you get your second one - then you can boot the
>> first one in 'firewire target' mode (they all do that) connect the new
>> one, and let it automatically copy over all the users, settings and
>> applications you had on the old one. Amazingly, this works even across
>> the ppc and intel processor types.
>>
> This will be our first, and maybe our last since we are in our 70's
> now. I do that lately with dd. Before that cp -a and other Linux things.
Exact copies are easy but you won't want to copy your old OS when a new
one is available. What this does is take the existing new but empty
computer with its latest OS X version and copies in the users,
applications, and data from the old one, including installed third party
apps. Vista copies this feature now, but you need to buy a special usb
host<->host cable. With Linux it is just painful and you have to figure
out which parts you can copy without breaking the new system.
> My new computer motherboard has a firwire plug and the front of the case
> has a firewire plug. No idea how to get Linux interested :-)
It sort-of works in some linux versions if you plug in a video camera or
hard drive.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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