Comments on: Mac vs. PC https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11 Welcome to my world Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Jesse Simko https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-6 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:15:26 +0000 http://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-6 Good to read your perspective on this Josh. I’ve been finding Macs to be fairly acceptable since OS X first became stable and mature around the 10.3 era. Prior to that I suffered through the occasional kernel panic, but even then, rarely felt any desire to return to OS 9 or Windows.

Apple’s move to Intel was necessary since PowerPC chip makers IBM and Motorala seemed interested only in making hot and slow CPUs, respectively. Apple hasn’t always been helpful to developers faced with transitions such as these, and it’s only thanks to the availability of dynamic binary translation that some older programs work at all. Luckily the 66% performance reduction resulting from on the fly instruction translation is hard to notice when the computer is so fast to begin with.

If you use OS X I’d recommend trying a free program called “SuperDuper” for doing backups, “Cyberduck” for FTP, “Transmission” for file sharing, and (shameless plug): Bristles for painting. And of course if you go to Macintosh HD/Applications/Utilities/Terminal you can do anything 🙂

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By: Joshua Harris https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-5 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:24:40 +0000 http://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-5 In reply to Nicholas Sauer.

Not yet, I’m not. We’ll see what happens. Just tempted for now. The thought of a 12-core, 128GB Mac Pro beast sounds pretty good too… 😉

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By: Nicholas Sauer https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-4 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:19:45 +0000 http://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-4 omg? Josh is a mac?

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By: Joshua Harris https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-3 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:12:00 +0000 http://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-3 In reply to Sheado.

Definitely no iPhone as long as it’s on AT&T. My iPod Touch is a cool device, but I can’t stand AT&T and their crap service!

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By: Sheado https://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-2 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:35:42 +0000 http://jdharris.net/blog/?p=11#comment-2 soon you’ll have an iPhone too!
i think hell hath frozen over.. and satan just bought a pair of ice skates

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