[Klug-general] You can't dis apple!

[Karl Lattimer]

> The MAC's fail IMHO, for the following reasons:
> 
> 1) 1 mouse button

Two finger tap

> 2) Track pad rather than nipple

Nipples are highly inaccurate and require buttons to facilitate clicks,
this is a big RSI no no on a laptop thats why you rarely if ever see
nipples any more on laptops.

> 3) to big

13" is too big, Funny, my laptop is smaller than every other standard
size laptop i've seen, with standard size == 15"

> 4) designed to run MacOS X, which I don't like

No its designed to boot from EFI and run any EFI enabled OS, that
currently limits it to Linux and OSX because m$ hasn't cottoned on yet.
However bootcamp has a bootloader which emulates BIOS which is nice.

> 5) built more for eye candy than use IMHO

Yes, it is humble, come back and tell me that after 6 months using apple
products

> 6) White - WHY GOD WHY? Black is much nicer :p

Also available in Black

> 7) There was a 7th reason then the phone rang and I can't remember what
> I was going to write.

Probably because your argument is without any substance?

> 8) Saying anything against a mac makes my housemate squirm.

Brilliant reason.

> Ultimately its all a question of taste, and its all a matter of choice,
> which we are all open to use what we want. There is no forcing. All my
> machines are pretty low power, I have a 700Mhz Athlon for a desktop, and
> as such the graphics bloat of eyecandy is a waste, 

Have you used beryl? It is incredible productivity improving usable eye
candy. Eye candy is not useless, it is incredibly important to the
future of the desktop.

> not to mention why
> waste screen real estate on things like a doc, 

Auto hide? Which DOESN'T screw up like windows autohide startbar or
autohide panel in gnome.

> window title bar's, thick
> borders etc... 

Skinable, and more screal estate is available because of the lack of
menu bars for each application. Also most UI elements are way better
designed than Gnome/KDE and it has more polish than an antique walnut
desk.

> I use EvilWM as my window mangler of choice, I use vi for
> my editor. There may be a connection.

Yes, medieval ages. 

> 
> Anyway, this is going off topic. Back to how great IBM laptops are :p

Slate and run... Very good.

K,