<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"> <html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css"> p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; } </style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:8pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;"> Ok... I've held my tongue on this long enough... :P I won't reiterate what has already been said, I saw the email come across about a week ago and it made a solid point. Apple's company strategy resembles the hunting tactics of leeches. They have taken everything from Open Source, built their entire company upon it and gave _nothing_ back. Name one application that Apple has developed and ported over to Linux. Hell, they haven't even ported iTunes over... Personally, I don't want to invest into that type of environment... I care where my money goes and I choose to support business models that promote human interest instead of degrade it. So, if I can do the same job in Open Source... consider it done - it may be harder, or it may take a bit more time... and I'm okay with that because in the end I know that my pocket book did not feed the beast. I used to think Apple was better than Microsoft, in terms of business practices and ethics, and now I can see they are the same... if not worse. I will have nothing to do with any of them... *descends from soap box* Ciao, Daniel On Tuesday 02 December 2008 03:53:16 Karoliina Salminen wrote: > Hi, > > Well, there was the discussion about laptops... "I use this and I swear on > it". Well, I have a gadget freak's solution: have them all. As a result, I > don't swear on any particular machine and the only ones of them I > really love of them are all Apple hardware. I don't really look for > the processing power only, but the complete product - I have plenty of > processing power available at hand. For example, the iMac which I use > for the most heavy music production, is only 2.6 GHz Core2 Duo, and so > far the CPU hasn't run out in my music even if I am running dozens of > software synthesizers and audio tracks at the same time with the Space > Designer per part (the convolution reverb, I remember the time when I > had a Pentium3 - 400 MHz, and all the CPU got used for calculating > just one convolution reverb and there was a huge latency on it, now I > can have about as many of convolution reverbs at one time than I ever > want, and the CPU is not yet even fully utilized). What it comes to > loving one machine, one feature of a old PC is that it has absolutely > no lasting feel to it, after 10 years, the PC is just junk and trash. > The Apple machine is beautiful, and feels retro cool after 10 years. I > don't love any of the PCs I have. They are just boring tools where GPU > model and CPU model counts and when they get old, they have no value > of any kind (neither emotional nor practical). > > I am regularly using the following laptops: > - Apple Macbook (2.2 GHz, 4GB RAM, 250 GB HD) (MacOSX + Ubuntu) [Hardy] > - Apple Macbook (2.0 GHz, 4GB RAM, 250 GB HD) (MacOSX) > - Apple Macbook Pro (4GB RAM, 250 GB HD) (MacOSX + Ubuntu) [Hardy] > - Lenovo Thinkpad T61p (4GB RAM, 160 GB HD) (Ubuntu) [Intrepid] [for > software development] > - Lenovo Thinkpad X61s (uh oh, the ugly and evil OS, this is for some > work bureaucracy) > - Lenovo Thinkpad T60 (Ubuntu) [Hardy] [for software development] > - Dell Latitude D600 x 2 (no longer in active use) (Ubuntu) [Hardy] > [for software development] > - Some IBM T40s. > - One T40 or something like that monitors our home automation (we have > computer controlled lights for example, lights can be switched on and > off from Linux console (we are slowly making progress with the > graphical user interface)) > + dozen of old laptops which no longer are very usable (these have > either Ubuntu or Suse in them) > > At home we have desktops as follows (that are in use): > - Intel Core2 Quad, 4GB, 2.4 GHz, 1 TB, Geforce 8800 GTX 768MB, > St-audio DSP2000 x 2. 30" 2560x1600 Dell monitor. Running Ubuntu > Studio. [Hardy] [living room general purpose machine, with music > production capabilities] > - Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB, 2 GHz, ~2 TB, GeForce 8600 GT. Planned to be > replaced with Intel Core7. Connected to 1920x1200 monitor and HD video > projector (which is in the home theater room). Running regular Ubuntu. > [Hardy] [Home-theater PC and file server] > - AMD Athlon 64, 2.2 GHz, 4 GB, 500 GB, server, running in text mode, > Running Ubuntu server. [Hardy] > - Apple iMac 20" 2.6 GHz, with second 24" monitor attached with > resolution 1920x1200. The iMac has 500 GB internal drive. Running > MacOSX and music software (Logic Studio/Logic Pro 8) [music > production, video editing/production, audio editing, 3D CAD] > - VIA Epia diskless PC running Linux-CNC (Ubuntu) [Hardy] > > No longer in use: > - previous server (reason: broken) > - previous file server (reason: broken) > > Then of course, we have a pile of broken hard disks, etc. And we are > frequently giving out old hardware for free to a friend of ours who > removes and reuses the components (I mean, the resistors, capacitors > etc., not the full computer components which are usually broken at > that time) from them. > > Handheld computers (only computers count, I do not count my phone or > iPod to them): > - Nokia 770 x couple [Maemo Debian] > - Nokia N800 x couple [Maemo Debian] > - Nokia N810 x 2 [Maemo Debian] > > -- Karoliina </body></html>