[CS-FSLUG] OS/2 Anyone?

[Nathan]

Timothy Butler wrote:
> 	Or you could just run *cough* Mac OS *cough*. Transparent watchable  
> backups, ideal iPod support *cough* etc. *cough*
>
> 	:-P
> 	
> 	-Tim

A Mac laptop is ok in my books, but I'm a desktop kind of guy, and 
there's no way I'm spending $2700 CAD on the only Mac desktop that I can 
open and work on as if it were an ordinary computer. Thanks, but no 
thanks. Besides, they're cost prohibitive.

I have a shuttle system down by my feet that has a Pentium D processor 
in it, 2GB of DDR800 RAM, and a GeForce 6200 video card. It cost me 
roughly $250.00 CAD less than a Mac Mini would, and yet manages to run 
circles around the Mac Mini I gave dad, as well as the MacBook I have. I 
don't know if the hardware or software is to blame, but I do find it 
astonishing that just about every web-browser I try on Mac OS X shows 
visual signs of strain and unresponsiveness on sites like Digg and 
Reddit, meanwhile FireFox on Linux or Windows on what would normally be 
considered lesser hardware runs circles around the same experience in 
Mac OS X. I don't know why, but that's been my experience with every Mac 
I've seen so far. When I'm watching videos embedded in a web browser on 
a Mac I can roll my mouse wheel down to scroll and see the jagged 
scrolling motion a second and a half later. I'd rather avoid getting 
used to that kind of experience, it just doesn't seem normal at all.