Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac
by WorldWideWayne on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @10:36AM
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This is also a good reason to not use a Mac at all and instead use an OS that does not lock you into a single line of hardware.
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Re:New Entry Level 21.5-inch iMac
by nicholassmith on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:43AM
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In my experience with other OS' (Windows 3.1 -> Windows 8, Ubuntu 4 -> Ubuntu 13, half a dozen other Linux varieties), I've never been able to open the box and get to work within half an hour. There's always been some niggle. It's a bit trickier now that the dev tools are an optional download rather than a CD/setup option, but in practise I'm usually good to start working with a fresh Mac in about half an hour. With Linux there's a lot more tinkering to get it just so, and with Windows there's generally a lot more to download and configure to get it working comfortably.