Hi all, Just heard the news (rumors) of new Macs that are going to hit the streets on Monday. Seems like Apple is finally going to catch-up with the PC world: there's talk of using IBM's PowerPC 970 64-bit CPU's. Makes me wonder what repercussions this will have on the whole LAD/LAU community, considering that they supposedly will have built-in optical audio I/O and with the recent announcement of Trolltech to make OS X Qt GPL-ed, leaves less and less advantages in Linux's favor (apart from the obvious untouchable open architecture and perhaps faster growing user-base -- according to recent news, can't remember where I exactly I read it tho, sale of factory-built Linux boxes should surpass Apple's this year, and that does not even include people with home-built machines and dual-booters). Please don't get me wrong. I am still in favor of Linux, obviously due to its open architecture. But at the same time I am becoming a bit weary of having to "hack" my advanced audio settings rather than use user-friendly tools. That, coupled with still anemic direct vendor hw driver support has really made me pay closer attention on Macs (as scary as that sounds). Yet, I feel such a sense of accomplishment when my Linux purrs just right with my desktop being uniquely configured and tailored to my needs. After all, I am a geek. :-) And the inner struggle goes on... Anyone care to comment or (please) dissuade me from potentially making a costly mistake? ;-) Ivica Ico Bukvic, composer & multimedia sculptor http://meowing.ccm.uc.edu/~ico
