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Asus does not make hardware, either. The actual hardware is assembled by various individual workers, from components that come from various suppliers. Asus is just the company that employs those workers. See? I can be pedantic, too! :)

Intel sells twenty times as many chips as Motorola or IBM ever did. Therefore, Intel has an R&D budget many times the size of Motorola's or IBM's. The 68k was better than x86. SPARC was better than x86. MIPS was better than x86. PowerPC was better than x86. In some cases, SPARC and PowerPC...

As I recall, the first one came out about four years before the mini, and was called the Power Mac G4 cube.

Forgive me if I'm being pedantic, but...did you empty the Trash? Nothing actually gets removed until the Trash is emptied.

Cheapest 1.8GHz dual-core laptop I can find. [EDIT: Okay, I've found a cheaper one. Much lower feature set (Integrated graphics, WTF?) , but cheaper.]

If you're planning to do anything serious* with it, then yes, get more than 512MB. $180 is the Crucial price, which is worth consideration for their reputation and returns policy, but you could easily knock 1/3 off that by buying from Newegg *Serious = pro photo editing, pro publishing...

You don't need to burn it at all. Just put the file on a thumbdrive (or an ordinary ISO9660/Joliet CD, or an iPod, or whatever.) A Mac can mount the .dmg file as a virtual volume.

The point is, it can't be flashed, and doesn't get corrupted the way a x86-PC BIOS could. Which is the important thing in the context of this thread. Saying "Open Firmware is a kind of BIOS" is like saying "A USB port is a type of serial port." It's factually accurate, but generally useless...

Open Firmware. You could argue that OF is a kind of Basic Input Output System, but it's not a BIOS in the x86 sense of the word. "Anywhere you don't have write permissions" is a long way from "anywhere." Admin users don't need to authenticate unless they're modifying directories belonging to...

1. Pipes 2. Shell scripts 3. Odd combinations of the above. The command line today is more of a programming environment than a user interface. For day-to-day file browsing and copying, the GUI is probably easier. For anything that involves a large amount of repetitive tasks, the command...

Get a copy of Roxo Toast to burn multisession disks. Finder CD burning is like XP's built in CD burninig; it sucks, but it's cheap. There's a free script out there for fullscreen in QuickTime. Google it. Or use VLC, MPlayer, RealPlayer, or something else. Windows file sharing on OS X is...

That's not any faster than a PowerBook...the 2GHz P-M's are, but...???

I don't think I missed the point at all. He said "need a *nix notebook" and OS X on an iBook certainly qualifies. Plenty of people use OS X to run "advanced Unix apps." He never mentioned anything about tinkering. If he wants to tinker, experiment, and customize, then he probably shouldn't...

What andrewbabcock meant to say is, the 802.11g standard is backwards-compatible with 802.11b. Any 802.11g card will work with an 802.11b router, although it will be limited to 802.11b speeds when doing so. [EDIT: The 802.11a standard uses a different frequency, and is not backwards...

Maybe because you don't have to futz with it to get wi-fi, brightness/volume, and power management to work with OS X? Maybe because you don't need WINE to run proprietary apps like Word or Photoshop? Maybe because most OSS doesn't really care whether it's running on Linux or OS X, so long as gcc...