Pcs Vs Macs

the_patriot13 said:
I do, I have a large client base of older folk who either refuse to or can't afford to upgrade their dinosaurs
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One of my favorite OSs for lame machines is Puppy. It is small, small, small and will run on 32meg of RAM like a Zebra with a Lion 6" off it's rump. I also specialize in old folks and being only 68, this month, I, just, cannot understand why I appeal to them so much. (The grumpy old coot pulled his oldest Fedora with the three inch brim down to the top of his glasses, turned, walked a couple of steps before giggling.)
 
I now have PCBSD-ISOTOPE running. It is a freebsd 9.1 distro with a KDE desktop.
the version of konquerer that comes with it is slow and doesn't seem to work too good, but firefox is working fine.
 
Go Linux for your OS: The new Fedora 17 KDE seems nice-getting better reviews than Ubuntu, does have some initial update quirks. If you Like a windows OS, you might want to toy with an Ubuntu based Linux called Zorin. Just my opinion- there are lots of FREE Linux OS's to try.

I agree with building your own PC, much cheaper and better if you pay attention to the specs. I just built a dual-boot desktop system to run AutoCad for less than $600 that will cremate anything stock within the same price range.

You can buy just about any Laptop built within the last 2 years, throw Linux on it and it will probably smoke Windows.

I always end up at Tigerdirect.com
 
I wont touch fedora, last time I used it, it seriously screwed up my partition table and made me reformat my entire computer. Granted, I was using the beta version, but its turned me off to fedora. My dad used to be a redhat beta tester and he said he liked it, but i just cat get myself to try it again. I prefer OpenSuse or Mandriva.
 
I stayed away from Fedora for the last few years, I am still a Linux Noob, I guess you could say i am still 'Beta testing' the system. :)

But I get what your saying...
 
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