[MLUG] apple?? mac?? Opinions please???

[liz <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Short history, I am almost too old to have had computer classes in 
school, when I did I aced them and promptly didn't learn  anything more 
till 1996 when my daughter brought home the  packard bell from wal mart, 
had it two weeks and windows wasn't working to my satisfaction so off it 
came and went back on modified.  That probably happened 10 times at 
least and was windows 98 without the price tag when I got through with it.

We have 2 desktops and two laptops, I played computer fairy and gave a 
desktop and two laptops to my kids last week and had planned on buying 
another super desktop, considered building one but I think I will do 
that after I get the taxes done.

I had just about settled on a 2.4 Sony Vaio desktop digital edition for 
those of our household who are linux challenged and I decided to look 
around a little.  I found I could upgrade my trusty emachine which is 
only 7 mo old, to a 2.2 ghz processor and put ram in and a new video 
card and have a decent computer.  (emachine gets good marks on 
benchmarks till you get to video).  So I have knoppix on everything and 
am going to put Suse on my beast (no name computer, makes strange 
noises, ordered 512 ram for it from a guy named Jose in Florida who made 
the computer, I really don't think Spanish is his native language either 
and I'm not being racist).  He told me beast shouldn't have windows xp 
on it and I reminded him that he built the computer??  He suggested 
windows 98, I said I had tried that and drivers etc for his particular 
confab were not playing nicely with windows 98.  

Last night I'm cruising ebay and bought a thinkpad for another kid.  I 
saw a snow white apple imac and fell in love.  I looked @ the processors 
etc and said hey this is goooooooooooood.  I didn't get the imac but 
wondered if you all had had experience with the mac os and apples.  I 
don't play intensive games but I want things to WORK.  I don't like 
freezes or slowdowns or having to reboot or spending all day trying to 
figure out why printer won't install.  (needed to reset printer bios 
settings, duh)  I want to surf and send email with the best of em 
basically and run an accounting program and a couple graphics programs 
if I ever get the time.  If things don't work I tend to get obsessive 
about them, I think I spent 2 months trying to get windows xp home and 
knoppix which was really unstable debian to network happily.  I finally 
did a vpn and said enough.

So is the mac os really more stable than windoze???  I'm not giving up 
on linux but those imacs are pretty and someone said you could install 
linux on them too???  And they are actually fairly cheap.  Opinions???? 
Pleeze??
Thanks,
Teresa


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