I've felt that the amount of inteeresting stuff is too low to make MacWorld worth my while for the last couple of years. Most of what's interesting and novel comes from Apple itself, and I can see that at the local Apple store. Almost everything else is a fraction of what's already available in the PC world. I just end up feeling like I spent 8 hours (including 1.5 hrs travel each way via train) and got very sore feet to see 5 new things. Having friends to visit with and share snide comments with would make it more palatable!
As for X, I think it's about as different as going from 9 to Windows. If you found learning Windows painful, I suspect you'll find X onerous, and if not, not.
I think Apple's turning into Bang & Olufson, and the Powerbooks are cool but partly a matter of playing to your strenghts -- "we have to push notebooks and be cooler and easier because our desktop machines are all 2-3X slower than cheaper Intel boxes (with no improvement likely in the near future), with a tiny fraction of the software and peripherals available (with no improvement likely ever)". I'll probably upgrade to X when I have to replace my machine, but I'll give serious consideration to saving some $$$ and switching to Windows.
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MacWorld, X, etc
Date: 2003-01-10 12:54 pm (UTC)As for X, I think it's about as different as going from 9 to Windows. If you found learning Windows painful, I suspect you'll find X onerous, and if not, not.
I think Apple's turning into Bang & Olufson, and the Powerbooks are cool but partly a matter of playing to your strenghts -- "we have to push notebooks and be cooler and easier because our desktop machines are all 2-3X slower than cheaper Intel boxes (with no improvement likely in the near future), with a tiny fraction of the software and peripherals available (with no improvement likely ever)". I'll probably upgrade to X when I have to replace my machine, but I'll give serious consideration to saving some $$$ and switching to Windows.
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