![]() Now, there are a few things that bother me physically about them (they're big and heavy (twice as much as my Lifebook P2040), the battery life isn't really good and there's a blasted trackpad instead of a trackpoint).īUT! I could overlook all that, because I'd really like a computer that Just Works(TM). I'm thinking of buying an 12" iBook or PowerBook to replace my old computer. This isn't flamebait, but an honest question. They ar just currently the best alternative by far. Not a veteran car that needs constant attention and tuning just to fulfill its primary obejctive.īut, above all, I do not believe that Apple is perfect in any way. With the Mac I feel that it is a tool for me to use, like a hammer. This was not the way a computer should work. I did computer support for Windows around 2001, and I felt it was something wrong with the system when the callers had to wipe their harddrives to reinstall from OEM discs. So easy in fact that it required three user actions (Insert disc, press command - C during start up, choose 'Archive and install') to recover and have the user settings intact, the computer settings intact, the registration on bought programs intact, everything as it should be. With Apple, I have had excellent customer experience, it is a robust system that has proven a catastrophic failure is easy to recover from. I hate it when a computer is not ready to be used by me, its owner at any time. I hate having to call Dell three or four times to solve an issue that is clearly under warranty. They are very professional and that is a big issue with me. I am now a Mac fan, since I have so many good experiences with the Mac, Mac OS and Apple. I was convinced and dropped Linux for Mac. The power of *nix AND a desktop you can look at without thinking "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood is the current #1 hit? And it plays better with Windows computers than they play among themselves? Then came OS X, especially in its second incarnation. I liked the ideas about all-USB and no disk drive, thinking "it's about time". Then Jobs came along and introduced the iMac. I thought that they were buggy, childish and a pain to use. And most important currently they are an underdog that has to fight to convince people about their products. They contribute to the Open Source community. However, they seem to put more work into their product than similar companies. They have shareholders and need to cater to their shareholders like every other share-based company. But when the error has occurred, it is usually very, very easy to fix and widely discussed by Apple fans raving over 30 minutes downtime on their laptop.įor the record, here's what I believe about Apple: they are a corporation. It has error and the developers screw up from time to time. I have never claimed that the Mac OS is perfect. Everything was working right after the error was corrected, it was like the error never occurred. MacOS amazes me, but not as much as peoples resistance to it amazes me.īut here's the point: it didn't shaft my computer. This was something quite different from the time when I had to reinstall Windows 2k to restore the system from some b0rkness. A quick lookup in the Apple Discussion boards adviced me to chick the old saved system in the thrash and empty it, I did and the System Prefrences menu worked. ![]() There were two minor SNAFUs with the rollback, I could not start System Preferences from the Apple menu and I had to reinstall Salling Clicker (But it even understood that I had bought and registered the program after install). Incredible, but a part of the *nix goodness of keeping settings apart from the system on a user base. Every setting, everything was as I remembered it, but the whole system was brand new 10.3 from 10.3.6. Even the document I saved just before rebooting was on the desktop. Everything was at its right place, spare for the wallpaper. I was prepared to spend the rest of the evening restoring settings and loading programs, but, I was stumped after the install. But I didn't know.Īnyhoo, I decided to do a Archive and Install type from the 10.3 DVD that was included with the PB. Also, the system would start up in single user mode to correct this problem. If I had access to another computer, I'd known that the file was overwritten by mistake and restorable from the ttys.applesaved file. I tried everything I knew, but to no avail. Now, as the shit had hit the fan, I was without computer as I oly have the Apple Powerbook. ![]() As I mentioned in this topic, I got a /etc/ttys file overwritten after the latest security uodate, and the system just hung on reboot at the "starting logon window" notice.
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