 How Many Of You Are Recent Switchers?, Just wondering... |
 Jul 12 2006, 10:05 AM
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This isn't a Mac "issue" per se, but it doesn't really belong in a non-Mac-related forum here.
We're a pretty geeky crowd here, and I was wondering how many of you fellow Z users are recent (as in, the past year) switchers to the Mac? You get one side on, for instance, the MacRumors forums, where non-techie folks seem to be a dime a dozen, but it'd be nice to get some idea of how many power users have taken the plunge. For the record, I switched in the pre-iPod days. |
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Jul 12 2006, 11:13 AM
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Converted to Linux (Offically) back in 2002...
(Dove into Mandrake, Redhat and Debian back in the mid-late 90's but never stuck) Haven't looked back since... if I didn't have to use the Active Directory Admin tools at work... I would run Linux on my 'all' my pc's at work... (I have a total of 3 desktops on my desk... Fedora, Solaris 10 and XP) Late |
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Jul 12 2006, 11:34 AM
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Hi, here my story:
I am a Mac user since 1992 and switched from M68000 to PowerPC and not yet to Intel (still waiting for the Powerbook G5 - oops - the MacBook Pro Merom). So, I used the Mac even before the modern Zaurus appeared (there was a non-Linux Zaurus 5800 with a full PCMCIA slot around 1996 and of course the Newton). And before that I was a user of HP/UX 9.x and 10.x - at that time a really great system based on X11 and Motif/Xt. And even before NeXT was developed (but those guys knew the HP/UX system). With this "heritage" the Zaurus was my first Linux system... -- hns |
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Jul 12 2006, 11:52 AM
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QUOTE(dhns @ Jul 12 2006, 01:34 PM) Hi, here my story: I am a Mac user since 1992 and switched from M68000 to PowerPC and not yet to Intel (still waiting for the Powerbook G5 - oops - the MacBook Pro Merom). So, I used the Mac even before the modern Zaurus appeared (there was a non-Linux Zaurus 5800 with a full PCMCIA slot around 1996 and of course the Newton). And before that I was a user of HP/UX 9.x and 10.x - at that time a really great system based on X11 and Motif/Xt. And even before NeXT was developed (but those guys knew the HP/UX system). With this "heritage" the Zaurus was my first Linux system... -- hns  I am a mac user since 1987 when my wife wanted a computer she could use without taking a class. Since that time I have tried LinuxPPC, Yellow Dog Linux and Debian. Each time I have tried a Linux flavor was due to the need of a command line interface, UNIX tools and programs found on X Windows. With Mac OS X, I am back to mac for good. I have had a performa, a PowerTower Pro, a 9500, a Silver Bullet (which I still have), an iBook provided by work and now a MacBook Pro. I would of waited for a merom based machine, but when my iBook died, my agency provided me a Dell Lattitude piece of junk. I just am not productive on Windows so I bought my own mac laptop. I also owned a Newton which was crushed in the truck of the company car. While linux is not new to me, the Zaurus is cool, especially after putting up with a hormonal palmos for the last few years. Chris-- |
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eji How Many Of You Are Recent Switchers? Jul 12 2006, 10:05 AM
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