Re: GUI Interface

You should try the new MacBook Jim! The 17" is out now. I used to
have the 17" PB G4, but now I have a 15" MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM.
It's a sweet machine! Very fast too.

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On May 15, 2006, at 4:22 PM, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:02:27PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Scott Marlowe wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 11:39, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>>> I am regularly dealing with customers, and specifically
>>>>> developers that
>>>>> are running Linux+PostgreSQL on the server... but their desktop of
>>>>> choice is MacOSX.
>>>>
>>>> And to follow up on this, I just saw that Tom Lane, Buddha guru of
>>>> PostgreSQL runs a Powerbook ;)
>>>
>>> Now now, he didn't say it was his.  Could be his mother's...
>>>
>>> (ducks to avoid tomato thrown by Bruce...)
>>
>> I remember he got some type of Mac laptop while he was at
>> Greatbridge,
>> but when they went bust, the parent company didn't know what to do
>> with
>> a Mac, so they let him keep it.  (I didn't use a laptop at the time.)
>> Might be the same one.
>>
>> Anyway, it would make an interesting reason for choosing a Mac.  I
>> can
>> see the commerical now.  :-)
>>
>> I actually use a laptop running XP.  I got it for the Win32 port, and
>> because I use putty/ssh, Mozilla, and Gaim 99% of the time, it
>> doesn't
>> matter what OS I use.  I could install a unix on it, but there
>> seems to
>> be no need because all my unix work is done on my server via ssh.
>
> I was prepared to hate OS X and it's silly one-button-ness, but I
> bought
> a 17" powerbook anyway, because to me that's what a laptop should be;
> plenty of screen real estate but also thin and light.
>
> Then I started using OS X and came to realize (to quote from Jurasic
> Park) "this is unix, I know this!"
>
> Granted, when it comes to administration it's a fair bit different,
> but
> I think OS X is about the best desktop environment a unix geek
> could ask
> for. All the tools you've grown accustomed to are right there and work
> just fine. No need to even ssh anywhere for them.
> --
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