Series opener - May20, 2002
One
of the constant refrains we hear from Mac users and devotees about their
persistent obedience to Apple hardware and OS, is that it's life goes
on . . . and on . . and on, more so than Wintel PC's do or can. Or so
their claims go. Right up front I'm going to restate that I am a bi-platform
computer user, Mac OS /Apple Hardware and Windows 98.x through XP/Wintel
Hardware (of various brands, including homebrewed).
That said, I also admit as you may have noticed, that I have a very
strong Mac leaning. In fact, if I was stranded in a really horrible
place
(hopefully with
Internet access) and a choice was given of only onecomputer, it would
be a Mac and probably a PowerBook at that.
So, with the personal
honesty disclaimer out of the way, I'm embarking on two projects, to as
nearly as possible, research the claims of the Mac community, "Macs
remain useful longer . . " hence a lower cost of operation or ownership.
We've decided that the choice of which Macs to look at was the first tuff
decision to make. There have been more
ìI
use to be multi platform, but I've finally given up on OS2 Warp (loved
it), BeOS (died) and Linux (just too frustrating and no major apps).
î
models over
the last five years than you'd think; so going with two that were sold
in the greatest volumes seemed most logical. One project will wrap around
a desktop Mac, one of the "fruit colored" Rev B iMacs that made
Apple a lot of money and helped Apple spread the good word of just how
easy a Mac is to use. I'm presently negotiating for on a pristine "Blue
Berry" running a G3 333 MHz processor. This project will start a
little later in the sequence.
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