Appleosity

[serinde]

I have been steadily turning to the Candy-Colored Side since the beginning of my employ. (Including spending most of today frobbing new machines, including the 24" iWhack I was not actually supposed to get, whoopsie!.) Earlier this week I made the final test: I had Boot Camp put a Windows partition on the laptop, booted into it, installed CoH, and tried it out. Seems to work fine, modulo the annoyance of trying to play with a trackpad. (Ah. Mem.: try TeamSpeak.)

So the kool-aid is delicious and fruity, and it seems likely that the next time we need to upgrade something (which is probably soon), I will be switching to a Mac. Jury is still out between iMac and a Mac Pro. Obviously the Mac Pro would be much sweeter, but iMacs are considerably cheaper, and if they are butch enough to do what I need, I may restrain my greed as it is likely to be a generally expensive year.

Comments

[sweh.livejournal.com]

What file system would you recommend? For read-only shares, NFS isn't that bad. Besides, the automounter is the issue, not the file system.

VLC has different but equally bad artificts.

I don't forgive Microsoft for their closed shit (I wish I could sync my phone with Linux, but oh no... needs M$ ActiveSync), so I don't forgive Apple, either. Being a market leader doesn't mean you can't _also_ implement open standards (FLAC as well as AAC, for example). Indeed, if the iPod and iTunes supported FLAC/OGG and Linux then I might have bought a 160Gb Classic. But I won't because it won't work with my preferred setup.

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing that Apple has put the most work into correct behavior with AFS (because it's theirs) and SMB (because they have been pushing Windows interoperability very hard).

Bummer about VLC. I find it hard to believe that there's no decent DVD decoder for Mac OS X ... there's got to be something.

[sweh.livejournal.com]

Well, I just tried 10.5.1 DVD Player (http://sweh.livejournal.com/234652.html) and it looks better... except the playback stutters a lot and the OS crashed! (http://sweh.livejournal.com/234864.html).

I might have to go back to 10.4.11 :-(

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

I am not yet recommending 10.5 to people who don't have some specific need for it. It's the FreeBSD 5 of Mac OS X. FreeBSD 5 had lots of ambitious infrastructural work, and it all hit the tree relatively late, which didn't leave enough time for stabilization before release. I suspect some of the same dynamics were at work in the development of Mac OS X 10.5.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

AFP. AFS is something rather different.

[fivetonsflax.livejournal.com]

Duh, right. I have AFS on the brain, it seems.