Microsoft Whistler seems like it will be a very great hit for us.........

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Originally posted by nO-One
UNIX is basically just the kernel and a damn stable one at that.

Win9x/ME is built upon DOS and MS is ditching this OS in favor of NT.If you try Win2k you\'ll see there is no DOS (altough you have a command line)

And I hadn\'t really started to think about OS X\'s security.But I supect it will be around Win2k\'s level.Of all the BSD\'s OpenBSD is the most secure.

And your right mac\'s are damn expensive.There are 5 in my house.And hopefully we will add the TiPB G4.

I really wanted one of the 733mhz SuperDrive G4 units, but then I was reading about the shipping delays and problems they are having with the units, so I decided to just settle for an Ibook and 533mhz G4. Then, maybe eventually get the 733MHZ G4.

Imacs are pretty cheap now, considering the $200 dollar rebate you can get on them.

I would imagine OS X will come with most the "services" turned off by default, for users who don\'t know their way around a UNIX OS and security reasons.

[nO-One]

Yep read my previos post on why the 733Mhz model is being delayed.
The fastest one we have is a dual 500Mhz.But that won\'t really show until we get the final OS X and a carbonized version of photoshop.(A lot of photoshop work is done at home)

And as I said before Motorola can\'t produce suffecient quantities of stable MPC 7450\'s (those are the G4\'s used in the 667 and 733Mhz models) that is also why they aren\'t offering dual 733Mhz G4\'s.

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Originally posted by nO-One
Yep read my previos post on why the 733Mhz model is being delayed.
The fastest one we have is a dual 500Mhz.But that won\'t really show until we get the final OS X and a carbonized version of photoshop.(A lot of photoshop work is done at home)

And as I said before Motorola can\'t produce suffecient quantities of stable MPC 7450\'s (those are the G4\'s used in the 667 and 733Mhz models) that is also why they aren\'t offering dual 733Mhz G4\'s.

Sorry about that man. Didn\'t notice that post. I\'d like to have a dual 533mhz. But, I can\'t afford it, well I could if I didn\'t want the Ibook also. I don\'t really need a dual either. I suck with Photoshop and probally won\'t even purchase it, at least not for awhile. And even then, I won\'t be doing heavy graphics filtering and such.

The MAC is highly under-rated in my opinion.

Apple needs to hurry up an announce new Imac with G4 and CD-RW though. They\'d sell like crazy.

[nO-One]

You should get OS X when it\'s finally released cause it\'s altiVec optimised so it will really speed up your comp.

And what monitor are you getting? LCD or CRT?

And there has been alot of talk about a complete redesign of the iMac/iBook.You should check out the forums on http://www.appleinsider.com.

[Living-In-Clip]

I plan on getting OS X when it comes out. If luck as it, it will come out right about the time I go to get them.

LCD.

I heard about the complete redesign. Truth be known, I\'d like to have one of the new G4 notebooks, but they seem to be having the same shipping problems, at least that is what I heard.

[nO-One]

The 15" LCD?Or the big 22" widescreen monster?(if so your  damn rich and lucky basterd )
I think Apple needs to add a bigger CRT 19" or 21" because it\'s a pretty big jump from a 499$ 17" to a 22" 3999$ LCD.

And yes the TiPB is having shipping problems but not as sevire as the top of the line towers because the PB uses the MPC7400 and Apple has more of them.

[Living-In-Clip]

Originally posted by nO-One
The 15" LCD?Or the big 22" widescreen monster?(if so your  damn rich and lucky basterd )
I think Apple needs to add a bigger CRT 19" or 21" because it\'s a pretty big jump from a 499$ 17" to a 22" 3999$ LCD.

And yes the TiPB is having shipping problems but not as sevire as the top of the line towers because the PB uses the MPC7400 and Apple has more of them.
 

15 inch. I would love to have the 22inch, but like you said I better be damn rich, if I plan on owning it.

 

To clear up some of the confusion about 95,98,ME, and Whistler.. Whistler is a combination of 98/ME (which are both \'true\' GUI OS\'s) and Win2000 Pro (which is an update of NT).

Win \'95 was NOT a true GUI OS, because it was still using the DOS shell of Win 3.XX. Win 98 and ME, however, use a true 32bit GUI interface, and have a \'psuedo\' DOS interface (more like an emulator) to use DOS functions and DOS programs. One of the reasons that Win 95/98/ME have some many stability problems is because they are trying to support 2 OS\'s: DOS and Windows.

Whistler solves this problem by eliminating the main culprit of the problem: DOS. Nobody writes DOS programs anymore, and it is hindering the OS unessesarily to keep including support of it. All the new hardware and configurations need 32bit drivers, not DOS\'s 8bit. So Whistler might not even have a \'DOS prompt\' in it, like 95/98/ME (though it might support a very limited version of 98/ME\'s \'psuedo-DOS\').

Sorry folks, it\'s just the price of progress..

[nO-One]

True.
BTW did the 7,17 drivers work for you Regent?

They worked OK, but I have gone to 6.49, which is now fully supported. Just seem to get better results with it.

[nO-One]

I went back to 6,xx got better FSAA with them.Although I do miss the better framerates I always go for the eye-candy