Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:38:41 10/11/02
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On October 11, 2002 at 12:31:20, George Sobala wrote: >On October 11, 2002 at 10:00:30, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >> >>OK, so I really need to put my hands on a Mac myself. I will not send my sources >>to anybody! :) >> >> >> >> Christophe > >Oh - you MUST buy yourself a Mac. You like Linux now - well, I guarantee that >you will fall in love with OS/X. A real solid Unix with the best desktop in the >world on top of it. The only downside is the relatively low clockspeed of the >PPC for chess engines ! (That is, unless you can squeeze something useful extra >out of the AltiVec 128-bit vector execution unit) I agree with the first few sentences. About the clock speed, however, I wish to remind you that the current line of G4 Macs includes only dual-CPU models. The top one is dual 1.25 GHz G4 chips, which ain't bad. And the middle model is quite affordable (for a Mac) and has dual 1.00 GHz G4 chips. Both of these models include a DVD recorder and a GeForce 4 card and Mac OS X 1.2 (Jaguar) which is a GREAT OS. And of course they have all the usual suite of unique and wonderful apps like iPhoto, iMovie, and iTunes. Places like NASA are getting rid of their expensive Unix workstations and replacing them with Mac OS X systems. And many hard-core Unix people are saying Mac OS X 10.2 is the best Unix ever.
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