Wall Street Journal: Mac vs. PC 142
cpk0 writes "Walt Mossberg is taking a few days to discuss the differences between Mac and PCs, and which is suitable for whom. He begins by saying the tides have definitely turned in regards to Apple's state as a computer which he will recommend. This is the first in a miniature series of articles by Mossberg touching base on the Apple vs. PC situation (but don't worry, it's not at all about bashing one side)."
Re:Few remaining issues before I switch... (Score:4, Informative)
I'm not sure about full keyboard re-mapping, but for your caps lock woes, there's uControl [versiontracker.com].
Hope that helps!
mark
Re:Few remaining issues before I switch... (Score:3, Informative)
It's also worth noting that if you don't get the 3 year warranty, any time within the first year you can choose to pay the $249 to extend the warranty the additional two years.
Re:Hardware compliant, software future (Score:5, Informative)
MS hired the Mach MicroKernel developers to create WinNT way back in the day. These guys are excellent and experienced OS developers and they still work at Microsoft.
This is not true. Yes, Mach's Rick Rashid works at Microsoft [microsoft.com]. However, he did NOT write anything for NT; he is the head of Microsoft Research. Microsoft hired Dave Cutler [microsoft.com] to write NT. Cutler worked at DEC and wrote DEC's VAX/VMS, RSX-11M and VAXELN operating systems. NT more resembles Cutler's canceled "Mira" operating system project at DEC than it does Mach. In fact, Cutler left DEC because his Mira project was canceled. He took his ideas and team of engineers to Microsoft.
WindowsXP/2K may be the only non-*nix desktop OS, one can assume that it has a *nix basis, since the core team of developers do
This is also not true. Dave Cutler hated Unix.
Re:a vote for Mac (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Utter crap (Score:2, Informative)
Er, excuse me, but Stuffit Expander [stuffit.com] is available for Mac, PC and Linux for free, and it's all you need to unstuff _any_ .sit file.
dalamcd
P.S. No, stuffit.com is not a porn site...
Keymapper App (Score:2, Informative)
In OSX, you could manually re-map the modmap file for the appropriate keymap you want to change out of the list of keymaps in the
But of course, there's will soon be an easier way if you don't want to muck about. Michael Baltak's GPL'd DoubleCommand Deluxe [mac.com], under development and hopefully to be released soon should offer a good amount of flexibility in custom keymapping for free. Or, to kill the bug with a sledgehammer you could get a macro utility like Quickeys [apple.com] from CE Software and map the Caps Lock key to trigger a one-key "shortcut" of your choosing (ie: map it to another key)
I wouldn't worry too much about paying to upgrade the OS to Jaguar, Apple so far has been fairly good about this sort of stuff. You could also wait a few months until Jaguar comes out and you might not need a keymapping utility at all, if you can bear to wait.