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You’ll be able to ignore most viruses
Each time the Windows community gets up in arms about the next big virus that is circulating around the globe, you can go about your business on your Mac without really worrying. However, you do have to be careful to not forward on infected files from one Windows user to another.

People will help you for no reason
Other Mac owners are usually fairly willing to help you get up and running on the Mac. This may be self-serving on their behalf, because it helps sell more Mac stuff which in turn justifies their investment in a company with less than 10% market share, but it’s still a perk.

You’ll have some “ah-ha” moments
From time to time you’ll be pleasantly surprised because the Mac will do something that you completely didn’t expect, because you’re used to how Windows would do things. For instance, you put a picture into the Address Book, and it appears automatically in iChat and then on your phone.

Keyboard shortcuts will drive you nuts
I spent years honing the craft of keyboard shortcuts on Windows, to the point where it was mostly muscle memory pressing the keys for me. On the Mac, it seems like there are two or three different ways that the various shortcuts are implemented, and it drives me nuts to this day.

You’ll regret your purchase, but you’ll get over it
You’ll have a few moments where you really, really wish you had purchased that Dell laptop for $399, and you’ll seriously consider taking the Mac back to the store, but eventually you’ll get over it and wonder what the hell you were thinking.

You’ll spend more money than with Windows
From the initial hardware purchase, to software, to more frequent OS upgrades, you’ll likely end up spending more money than someone with a Windows box - but you’ll find you often get good value for your extra money. And Apple will keep coming out with new shiny objects that you really, really want to have.

You’ll generally sell your used Mac for a decent price
Apple computers tend to retain their value better in the used marketplace. Even a two-generations-back non-Intel laptop will sell for $250-300 on craigslist.

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… ever imagined running Mario and Doom and a lot many of your favourite games on your iPod. By the way, who said Nanos wouldnt run videos? Welcome to Linux.

visit http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page for the installer and watch this video for a “how-to-install”.

Tags: Apple, iPhone, linux

“Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight ball and chain.” This is what Steve Jobs quotes. Are they planned to run a Enterprise Server on iPhone. I guess Java ME was created just to enable Java to run on lightweight JVMs, especially Mobile phones. Millions and millions of people are downloading Java games everyday. I dont really know which planet Steve Jobs is in.

Ironically, Steve also quotes “iPhone is not meant to be a Smartphone series of phones”. Without Java, it surely wouldn’t be.

Check out the hot comments in http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=43850#225422

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Falling under the category of “I hate Microsoft because its Microsoft”, nothing could enthuse me other than any announcements from the Linux or the Mac circles. And for the last entire week, my only pass time was just to muse at the photographs of the iPhone.

The devil is in the details, they say. And the same devil woke me up from my dreams.

Though iPhone comes with a sexy key-less interface, a full featured powerful Unix based OS, Safari web browser and a couple of widgets, it was lacking on one major thing. Third party software support. Meaning, no real players, word processors, no ringtones other than built-in or from a iTunes purchase. And my worst nightmare is that there is no support for Java (at least yet). With almost all the smartphones supporting Java based software and games, i feel, Apple is wrong in claiming that it is “five years ahead of any other mobile phone”

Here is the list of why iPhone might fail.

1) No 3G connectivity support. 3G is the hottest of the broadband solutions to mobile technology. It now has been exploited to support speeds up to 7 Mbps (14 Mbps in near future). All the smartphones now support this. iPhone has a meek EDGE technology with data rates of 230 Kbps.

2) Third party software support. All competitive phone models either run on Symbian OS, Windows Mobile or a variant of Linux — all of which has support for third party software.

3) Even though camera is not one of the much advertised feature for the iPhone, it has a humble 2 megapixel inside it. On the contrary Nokia and Samsung has a 5 MP and 10 MP in the offing.

4) 1% market share in the US is not a realistic goal holding hands with a single operator Cingular. Verizon has the largest coverage network and there are some areas where Cingular does not literally exist. Sprint and T-Mobile has its own share of followers who would not trade sides just for a handset.

All said, there is simply a place for a iPhone in our heart and thats the touch screen capability and the very look and feel of this feature-anemic handset. In that case you should simply check out the LG KE 850 that is due release very soon.

Looks like a clone isnt it? Thats right. But the phone on the left side is the clone and the ‘original’ is from LG.

More on creepy iPhone

http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2007/01/creepy_iphone_i.html

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, quotes “You don’t want your phone to be like a PC. The last thing you want is to have loaded three apps on your phone and then you go to make a call and it doesn’t work anymore. These (iPhones) are more like iPods than they are like computers.”

Thanks. I am happy with one iPod.

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