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viktor_haagSo the replacement for my old QuickSilver Mac desktop at work has arrived and is up and running: a spanky dual-2Ghz G5. I hereby expect snappier performance and lack of hardware problems for at least a few more years.
Sadly, this is probably the last new machine I'll ever get that will be (a) Mac-based, and (b) run FrameMaker, as now that Apple's going to migrate over to Intel for all their hardware, FrameMaker will get forever orphaned on the Mac. (Until Apple can put enough pressure on those wieners at Adobe to get their acts together and either release a port of Frame/Solaris to run on Darwin, or release a Carbonized port of Frame.)
My goal? By the time I no longer have Mac hardware to run Frame, I will have reconfigured the neurons in my head to some other suitable long-document authoring system worth using. So far the future don't look all that promising.
But momentary happiness is here as my computer is reborn in a svelter, faster package!
Sadly, this is probably the last new machine I'll ever get that will be (a) Mac-based, and (b) run FrameMaker, as now that Apple's going to migrate over to Intel for all their hardware, FrameMaker will get forever orphaned on the Mac. (Until Apple can put enough pressure on those wieners at Adobe to get their acts together and either release a port of Frame/Solaris to run on Darwin, or release a Carbonized port of Frame.)
My goal? By the time I no longer have Mac hardware to run Frame, I will have reconfigured the neurons in my head to some other suitable long-document authoring system worth using. So far the future don't look all that promising.
But momentary happiness is here as my computer is reborn in a svelter, faster package!
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Date: 2006-08-01 01:32 (UTC)The ironic hilarity for me is that I'm realtively hardware agnostic, all things considered. What I'm not is operating system agnostic. If I was at all keen on running Windows, I would have bought a Wintel box and had it dual boot Windows and Linux or something. 8)
The reason that I'm still a Mac fellow is that OSX is "the best OS in the world" (in reality, it's my favourite OS; NeXT/OpenStep comes in a close second, then probably BeOS, then Linux, then BSD, then HP/UX and other Unixes, then Windows).