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Posts: 129 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Wednesday, March, 16, 2005 2:16 PM
Has anyone here tried for the free mac mini? I'm at least 60% of the way there!
http://www.FreeMiniMacs.com/?r=15817428
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Fretnoize
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Posts: 0 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Wednesday, March, 16, 2005 10:08 PM
I didn't get a free one, but I bought one last week. First apple I've got in over 20 years!! (Apple 2c)
It's a pretty cool little machine. Not that I'd completely switch to mac only, since PCs are the dominant computer systems for gaming (considering number of available titles only, I don't want to start a pc vs mac arguement) and game development, and thats my field.
I went to school for music, so everything there was mac only, I would always get frustrated with the OS interface and usually would experience crashes a lot (this was maybe system 7 or 8 I forget). So I built up a lot of negativety towards macs. Needless to say, they've done a great job with OS X in my opinion. I haven't had any frustrations trying to accomplish anything I've tried to do on it yet, even slightly complicated stuff like opening specific ports on the firewall and such was easy enough.
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Wednesday, March, 16, 2005 11:05 PM
Nah I wouldn't worry about that. The PC and Mac thing there. We all have some good systems around here and they are all good one. Mac IBM, Nextstation, Sun Ultra 2,.
Fretnoize Wrote:I didn't get a free one, but I bought one last week. First apple I've got in over 20 years!! (Apple 2c)
It's a pretty cool little machine. Not that I'd completely switch to mac only, since PCs are the dominant computer systems for gaming (considering number of available titles only, I don't want to start a pc vs mac arguement) and game development, and thats my field.
I went to school for music, so everything there was mac only, I would always get frustrated with the OS interface and usually would experience crashes a lot (this was maybe system 7 or 8 I forget). So I built up a lot of negativety towards macs. Needless to say, they've done a great job with OS X in my opinion. I haven't had any frustrations trying to accomplish anything I've tried to do on it yet, even slightly complicated stuff like opening specific ports on the firewall and such was easy enough.
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itom
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Posts: 129 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Wednesday, March, 16, 2005 11:11 PM
Yeah, I'm typing this on my PC, but I like the Mac too! I think the debate is pretty much dead - They are just tools to be used. I have XP Pro, OS 9, and Red Hat Linux (at work.) From what I understand, you can run Linux on the mac platform as well.
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Fretnoize
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Posts: 0 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Tuesday, April, 05, 2005 3:15 AM
Did you have any luck getting a free mac?
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Kamui
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Posts: 0 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Tuesday, April, 05, 2005 4:37 PM
| itom Wrote: From what I understand, you can run Linux on the mac platform as well. |
Makes sense. I think there were some parts of the new Macs that were created by Linux? I hear that somewhere....
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Compucore
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Posts: 4,450 | Re: Hey, Flynn used an apple...
on Tuesday, April, 05, 2005 5:12 PM
From what I remember hearing and all that through lockergnome and a few other places. The Mac OS is a Unix based OS for the MAC. Actually the used the OS from THe nextsation that I have which is currently running a Motorola CPU in there too. So its one computer that I know tht Mac Had bought Steve Jobs Out on and used the OS from there and INcorporated it into th Current line of OS for the MAc. I think thy had usd Freebsd or Similar Unix os for th ma for it. So ys it is a Unix nvironment. bt its mainly graphical. Unless you drop down to th command line/Terminal to actually type in commands there.
Kamui Wrote:| itom Wrote: From what I understand, you can run Linux on the mac platform as well. |
Makes sense. I think there were some parts of the new Macs that were created by Linux? I hear that somewhere....
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