murple wrote:
You should see the recent thread about Apple being the new Amiga... Macs are hardly in the same category as Amigas. Macs are designed around the idea that users are essentially retarded and need to have their options limited (witness the one button mouse, and Apple's history of hermetically sealed cases).
The one-button mouse really ruins everyting. So what if the OS supports several mouse buttons, and that Apple sells mice with lots of them, the damage has already been done.
While Amigas are pretty easy to use, they always encouraged users to learn and tinker. Notice all the schematics and pin outs in your Commodore user manuals? Ever see that in a Mac manual?
Let's see... a couple of standard USB ports... a standard firewire port... a standard LAN connector... A-HA! There's this oddball monitor connector which requires a 10$ adapter! Damn you Steve Jobs! Damn you! Why didn't you give me the pinout so I could build my own 20$ adapter!
Fortunately they designed this machine for retarted people, so it suits me perferctly. Retarted people, or special people as I like to call us, need special tools - gnu stuff, GCC, bash, X etc. To make this less intimidating, they've added a special GUI extracted directly from Teletubbie-land.
-- Peter
