__/ [ John Bailo ] on Wednesday 12 July 2006 02:19 \__
> Steve Jobs can take a piece of tin and coat it in gold.
>
> He took a circuit board, and created the Apple.
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> He took a science project from Parc and created the GUI.
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> He took a transistor radio and made it the iPod.
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> Now, he should take Linux, glue it to his fabulous Bauhaus inspired Duo
> Core notebooks and make the perfect desktop vehicle for Linux.
>
> Steve Jobs -- will you *glitterize* us ???!
No need. Never be deceived.
http://sekhon.berkeley.edu/macosx/g5.html
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| My 2.7 pound Pentium-M Linux laptop is faster than my 44 pound G5 running
| OS X. For statistical computing Apple's OS X is incredibly inefficient
| relative to Linux**.
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**Note that there are counter arguments.
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/OS_Clone-en.php
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/index.php
And voila! There you have it:
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/pix/big_OS_Clone23.jpg
http://baghira.sourceforge.net/pix/big_OS_Clone13.jpg
As cheap as 150 bucks...
http://www.k-ossystems.com/cgi-bin/kart/index.php?p=productsMore&iProduct=30
Maybe the key is in preconfiguarion of such machines so that they ship with a
familar Mac OS X-like facet. But who will pay for marketing...?
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