"a Mac is like a car that gets 500 miles to a gallon of petrol... but you can only drive it on designated highways."

I don't own a Mac but think it to be a superior operating system (every newspaper I know of uses Macs in their offices-- better graphics etc.)The only thing to watch out for today is the price/product factor. You can search the following if you like:

www.techtv.com

http://www.leoville.com/

Leo is an advocate of Mac but he's mad at them right now. Seems he bought their new product 6 months ago and now a newer product does more for less money. ie bought an E300 and the now the S Class is the same price. His "lesson" could be of value to you when you make your new purchase.

I haven't fully searched the sites for Mac info but if I find anything useful, I'll report back.

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

http://leo.typepad.com/radio/

Leo recommeded an iBook for one of his radio call ins

seems you're on the right track with your new purchase

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

jjrodger, running Panther on a G3 iMac? How's that working out for you? I'm curious since the built in windows networking, partcularly the printer sharing, looks interesting compared to Jaguar.

It's fine. It runs a lot faster than 10.1 or 10.2. Mind you, I only use it for surfing the internet (with Safari), gentle word processing (Word X), messing with my digital photographs (mainly iPhoto and sometimes Corel Photo-Paint 11), and such like. It is not networked and the only peripherals are a printer and an ethernet DSL modem.

It is a 400Mhz iMac DV with slot loading. It is graphite. I have fitted it with 384Mb of RAM. It makes do with 12Gb hard disk, which is not really enough for the pictures.

The key to stability is not using a USB modem: they crash all the time and run really slowly. Ethernet modems are fine.

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2013 G350 Bluetec
1999 SL 500
1993 E300 diesel T
1990 190

I'm at home on my Mac right now and using Safari. I sure prefer it to Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers. I used Opera a couple years ago and found it way, way superior to other packages. It was fast and gave you lots of control unavailable in competitors programs.

Anybody using Opera now? I'm not.

Also, I've got Jaguar (OS-X 10.2 for not-Mac people) and am still getting adjusted to its many, many changes taht are not apparent until you start foolin' around. You said that Panther is even faster? Might have to upgrade.

Botnst

bonst, et al,

I decide to go with Mozilla 1.6 and I love it. They also have Mozilla Firebird that lots of techies like.

Later

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Nello Tare

1982 300D (266,001 mi.) looking and running great

Previously owned:
1976 450 SLC
1983 300D
1976 300D
also
1982 Jaguar XJ6 (loved, but gone)

That's good to hear, I thought I might have to take my iMac DV up to 512MB of ram to run Panther reasonably well. Yes, added hard drive space is welcome in any personal computer!

Peter,
Do you know anyone whos run Cadkey in x-windows? I have about 8 years with cadkey and have a copy here. Its awesome when it isn't locking or crashing the OS. (any MS OS) They were just bought up I heard so I don't know what they're going to be like long term.

Mark:

Sorry, the only version I've seen lately ran under MS DOS (we actually ran it under DR DOS from Digital Research, the people who originally "wrote" what became MS DOS).

Never had a bit of trouble with crashes, ran fast as anything on a 12 MHz AT clone.

Don't know about the future, but CadKey is, or was, a biggie in places like GE in the design departments and engineering departments.

Should be pretty stable under XWindows, they've had a version for at least 8 years.

Botnst:

I tried Opera running under OS 9.1 and it crashed constantly. I've heard the Windows version is pretty nice.

Anything out there the will run under OS 9.x? I'm not all that fond of Exploder, but have been forced to use it these days because too much stuff won't run in Netscape 7.1 (notably FastLane).

Peter

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1972 220D ?? miles
1988 300E 200,012
1987 300D Turbo killed 9/25/07, 275,000 miles
1985 Volvo 740 GLE Turobodiesel 218,000
1972 280 SE 4.5 165, 000 - It runs!

Steve Jobs launches Leopard
Leopard comes in one flavour for all users
BBC


Leopard, the latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OS X, goes on sale on Friday.

The release ends months of waiting for Mac fans, after Apple pushed back the launch to finish development on its much-hyped iPhone.

Early reviews for Leopard have been positive with veteran technology writer Walt Mossberg calling it "evolutionary, not revolutionary".

Apple is hoping to build on recent strong sales of its Mac computers.

In the last three months, Apple sold 2.2 million Macs, up 400,000 on its previous best quarter.

The company is touting Leopard as a Vista-beater, pointing to new features not found in the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft that drives many PCs.


LEOPARD'S NEW SPOTS
Time Machine - automatic file back-up
Stacks - related files and folders grouped automatically
Spaces -keep separate desktops for different uses
Quick Look - Examines the contents of a file without having to open the related program
Coverflow Finder - flick through files and folders like album art in iTunes
Boot Camp - run Windows on a Mac

Apple says there are 300 new features in Leopard, but some of them are minor tweaks to the previous OS, called Tiger, rather than fully-fledged tools or enhancements.

Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Mossberg said: "I believe it builds on Apple's quality advantage over Windows.

"In my view, Leopard is better and faster than Vista, with a set of new features that make Macs even easier to use."

'Few disappointments'

In the New York Times, technology columnist David Pogue wrote: "Happy surprises, and very few disappointments, lie around every corner."

At the MacLiveExpo, being held in London, there was a mixed response from attendees on whether they would be rushing out to buy Leopard on day one.

Many of the delegates said they would wait for the operating system to "bed down" before they bought it.

"I never buy any operating system when it first comes out. I normally wait until it has been out for six months or a year," said David Ramage, a Mac user from Luton.


Vista has been quite a disappointment for many people and Leopard could be the reason many people make the switch to Macs
Nik Rawlinson, editor of MacUser magazine

He added: "Tiger does what I need it to do right now. I've not seen anything in Leopard to make me want to buy it immediately."

For developers, a new operating system means having to work to ensure their programs run smoothly on the new platform.

Ben Rudolph, director of communications at SWSoft, makers of Parallels, said Leopard was a big step forward for Apple and "would continue to drive sales of Macs".

Parallels lets users run Windows and Linux alongside OS X on a single Apple machine.

Mr Rudolph said Parallels would run smoothly under Leopard, barring any last minute changes to the code released by Apple.

"If that happens, we'll release a free, automatic update to account for them very soon after Leopard's launch," he said.

Of the new features in Leopard, Mr Rudolph said he was looking forward to being able to take advantage of his Mac's 64-bit architecture.

The new OS takes full advantage of the latest generation of chips inside Apple machines, while running applications on older processors also.

Stacks
Features like Stacks gathers related material together

"I'm also looking forward to new user-experience features like Stacks, which should help me organise my incredibly messy desktop, and Spaces, which lets me cycle between different desktops."

Nik Rawlinson, editor of MacUser magazine, said many users would get Leopard in its first few weeks on sale.

"When Tiger was launched it earned Apple $120m very quickly and all the expectations are that sales will be double that."

He added: "Vista has been quite a disappointment for many people and Leopard could be the reason many people make the switch to Macs."

He said he felt Leopard had enough new features to distinguish itself from Microsoft's Vista.

"A lot of things that were previously only add-ons in the Mac world, such as the Apple TV interface, are now integrated into the OS.

"That is competing directly with Media Center on Windows PCs. Apple has seen that Microsoft has moved forward in some areas and is responding."

A review and video overview of Leopard will be published on the BBC News website on Monday.