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So there was a folder on my WinXP Pro laptop that I couldn’t delete due to some dumb ass naming scheme used by two of the files inside the folder. That folder has been sitting on my desktop for well over two months.

So today I decide to SMB from my Mac OS X PowerBook and try to delete the folder…done in less than a second. Go figure.

I went to CompUSA on Saturday. Wouldn’t you know it – they were running an 18 Months No Interest deal on any laptop over $799. So I immediately go over to the Apple aisle..but damnit no 12″ PowerBooks on display. So I asked the employee if they had any in stock..no, of course not.

I guess that’s a good thing though. I really want to wait until Tiger (OS X 10.4 for the uneducated) is released, which is rumored to be this Friday. I’ll wait until the OS is preinstalled and then I’m going to buy.

No, really..

How about this!

Linux creator Linus Torvalds is now running an Apple Macintosh as his main desktop, largely for work reasons but also because he’s not one to pass up a bargain.

Torvalds, who initially created Linux for the Intel x86 platform, revealed to the Linux Kernel Mailing List in February during a discussion on kernel size reduction that his main desktop machine no longer featured an x86 processor. Hence, Torvalds said, a patch specific to the x86 platform that he was submitting to the list for consideration was totally untested.

ZDNet Australia was intrigued by this remark and sought to question Torvalds on why the man who helped revolutionize the use of Unix on the x86 platform would move away from it, and where he had moved to.

Torvald’s response came quickly and succinctly. ‘My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970)–it’s physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don’t think you can call it a Mac any more ’ he wrote.

Even though it’s not running OS X, I’ll give him credit for using superior hardware.

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In similar fashion to the Windows 98 / BSOD / Scanner debacle a few years ago, Windows’ “quality” strikes again during a presentation.”During a demonstration of digital photography with a soon-to-be-released Nikon camera, a Windows Media Center PC froze and wouldn’t respond to Gates’ pushing of the remote control.Later in the 90-minute presentation, a product manager demonstrated the ostensible user-friendliness of a video game expected to hit retail stores in April, Forza Motor Sport. But instead of configuring a custom-designed race car, the computer monitor displayed the dreaded “blue screen of death” and warned, ‘out of system memory.’”

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050106/D87EK9KG0.html

Finally, Apple has decided to release a low-end Mac targeted to the casual Windows user. I’ve thought for years that Apple was losing marketshare due to the lack of a low-end machine, especially after Dell started pricing aggressively.Not that I ever think (or want for that matter) Apple will become as dominant as Windows PCs, but I do think this will help their marketshare.

For the full story, click here: http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0412expo2.html

Even though I am a die-hard Apple fan and supporter, I never said ALL Mac users were intelligent:

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