[mythtv-users] OT - Mac Advocacy, was; Which SVN?

[David Brodbeck]

On Mar 10, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> So, you really feel it's worthwhile to pay for the /option/ of running
> MacOS even though you may choose to install GNU/Linux or Windows on  
> that
> machine instead?

Depends on the application, really.

- For laptops it's hard to beat OS X.  Linux laptop support has always  
been kind of iffy.  In ten years of using Linux on laptops I've never  
gotten suspend/resume to work reliably, for example, and never gotten  
hibernate to work at all.  Often you have to do hackish things with  
NDISWrapper to get wireless to work.  In general it's just a bad  
scene.  OS X on a MacBook just works because the machine and the OS  
were designed for each other.

- For desktop machines, no, it doesn't make sense to me.

- For small form factor machines, it's hard to build a PC that's as  
compact and quiet as a Mac Mini without spending more than a Mini costs.