LOL, In 98 all of us in the design industry were thinking about moving to the PC, but then Apple bought NeXT and promised us the ease of the Mac with the power of UNIX. Finally late last year it all started really coming together and this year with Quark releasing a native version of QuarkXPress it is here and all I can say is it is all that and more, it is fucking awesome.
The kewl thing is that it runs all of both the new and really old Mac software, Linux software, *nix software, NeXT software and talks to Windows machines using Samba.
My machine has not crashed once this year and the only time I restart is when I do a system update or mess with hardware.
The *nix tools are really starting to come out like this MySQL tool that came out a few days ago,
http://cocoamysql.sourceforge.net/
The next version of Mac OS X will be out before then end of the year and it looks like the new Apple is really listening to its customers, unlike the old Apple.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/
Actually with Apple buying NeXT the Apple of today isn't really the old Apple at all since all the NeXT engineers are who are writing and developing for Apple now.
2003-09-12, 08:05 AM
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