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[News] Drawbacks of the "Mac" Computers Compared to Desktop GNU/Linux

  • Subject: [News] Drawbacks of the "Mac" Computers Compared to Desktop GNU/Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:16:24 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Mac computers are restrictive.

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| There are amazing PC laptop computers that you can buy for $600 
| comparing to Apple latops that are usually around $1300 and more. 
| Apple computers are overpriced, proprietary, restrictive and 
| protectionist. This might not be a good direction to be heading 
| into. Could Apple prove to be even more restrictive and opressive 
| than Microsoft?
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http://www.idreamoflinux.com/2009/09/mac-computers-are-restrictive.html


Recent:

Can Ubuntu 9.10 Outperform Mac OS X 10.6?

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| Of the 26 tests shown in this article, Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" was the
| clear winner in 12 of the 26 tests while Snow Leopard had won a handful and
| the rest of the tests had results that were too close to call or unchanged
| between the Apple and Canonical operating systems. Ubuntu 9.10 can certainly
| compete with Mac OS X 10.6 when it comes to the performance, but of course a
| few of these tests do show performance regressions compared to the earlier
| Ubuntu 9.04 release, an area where Ubuntu developers could improve.
| Additionally, not all areas of the system or hardware combinations were
| tested, such as with the Intel Linux graphics performance struggling compared
| to Mac OS X. On top of that, the Ubuntu Linux installations had NVIDIA's
| proprietary driver manually installed, where as the "out of the box"
| experience on Ubuntu does not provide any 3D acceleration for NVIDIA
| hardware.
|
| Stay tuned for our large Mac OS X, Linux, OpenSolaris, and BSD operating
| system comparison in the next month.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_karmic_leopard&num=1
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