You should try the new MacBook Jim! The 17" is out now. I used to
have the 17" PB G4, but now I have a 15" MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM.
It's a sweet machine! Very fast too.
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On May 15, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:02:27PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Scott Marlowe wrote:
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:39, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I am regularly dealing with customers, and specifically
developers that
are running Linux+PostgreSQL on the server... but their desktop of
choice is MacOSX.
And to follow up on this, I just saw that Tom Lane, Buddha guru of
PostgreSQL runs a Powerbook ;)
Now now, he didn't say it was his. Could be his mother's...
(ducks to avoid tomato thrown by Bruce...)
I remember he got some type of Mac laptop while he was at
Greatbridge,
but when they went bust, the parent company didn't know what to do
with
a Mac, so they let him keep it. (I didn't use a laptop at the time.)
Might be the same one.
Anyway, it would make an interesting reason for choosing a Mac. I
can
see the commerical now. :-)
I actually use a laptop running XP. I got it for the Win32 port, and
because I use putty/ssh, Mozilla, and Gaim 99% of the time, it
doesn't
matter what OS I use. I could install a unix on it, but there
seems to
be no need because all my unix work is done on my server via ssh.
I was prepared to hate OS X and it's silly one-button-ness, but I
bought
a 17" powerbook anyway, because to me that's what a laptop should be;
plenty of screen real estate but also thin and light.
Then I started using OS X and came to realize (to quote from Jurasic
Park) "this is unix, I know this!"
Granted, when it comes to administration it's a fair bit different,
but
I think OS X is about the best desktop environment a unix geek
could ask
for. All the tools you've grown accustomed to are right there and work
just fine. No need to even ssh anywhere for them.
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