[kwlug-disc] older Mac laptops

[Ron Singh]

Oh man, now I off to a big trip down that Iron Sky rabbit hole.
No worries, rabid fear of Kool-Aid, Jonestown and all that, I am Guyanese
by birth...
At my age, I am so immune to being influenced, I am most boring.
I do like to step into cult-like scenes and pretend I am one of the tribe,
I play for a while and then go home to reality, haha.

7 years ago, I bought a Mac 11" thing, turned it on(after a head-scratching
few moments figgering where that power switch was located).

> I have this self-imposed rule, I need to be able to make use a tool after
> 20 minutes of mucking around without the benefit of a romp through a
> manual. My 20-minute trip expired, I was frustrated by the experience, the
> laptop flew across the hallway into another office, that office-dweller
> cautiously picked it up(surprisingly, it still worked) and her 7yo son used
> it quite successfully for 6 years. There are at least 2 lessons in that
> experience:-) I am thinking of revisiting the Mac space(cheaply) as I think
> my anger management sessions have paid off(!) and wanted something that a
> cut above a reference Intel platform(is the Mac a cut above?)  for messing
> with FreeBSD(Xfce DE or mebbe Mate) and Debian with KDE. I just want a
> non-Wintel thing, but perhaps Chamunks is most wise in his assertion -- a
> Mac is best used with a Mac OS, use any decent Wintel hardware to mess
> around with my target OSes.
>

Thanks,

Ron Singh



On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 3:25 PM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I know nothing about Macs really, but sometimes, I feel a tug suggesting
> I
> > should get one  so that I can feel like I belong to that most rarefied of
> > coteries, a Mac user(part-time).
>
> >Someone we know wrote a book about this feeling of being part of a group.
> >
> https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf
>
> LOL - yes, probably a good thing to read my satirical guide first ;-)
> Also, you should watch the 5 minute clip about "the Jobsists" from the
> movie "Iron Sky 2: The Coming Race" - it's hilarious!
> It's from 12:27 to 17:42 (approx).
> Plus, if you ever attend a Mac user's group, just make sure you don't
> drink the Kool-Aid (trust me on this one).
> Cheers,
> Jason.
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:37 PM <tomg at sentex.ca> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Ron Singh <ronsingh149 at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > I know nothing about Macs really, but sometimes, I feel a tug
>> suggesting I
>> > should get one  so that I can feel like I belong to that most rarefied
>> of
>> > coteries, a Mac user(part-time).
>>
>> That tug is Apple's huge marketing money.
>>
>> Someone we know wrote a book about this feeling of being part of a group.
>>
>> https://github.com/jasoneckert/CultOfMac/raw/master/Escaping%20the%20Cult%20of%20Mac%20(Jason%20Eckert).pdf
>>
>> Belongingness is one of the most basic of human needs.  And pride, of
>> having
>> something others don't, or of being something others aren't, is the most
>> basic
>> human vice.  The satisfaction of being above the rabble.
>>
>> I have an Imac, and I've used Mac OS X.  I put Linux on it, which I
>> was thinking
>> of telling the group about in another e-mail, which I think you might find
>> interesting.
>>
>> In my not remotely humble opinion neither of these computers are worth
>> your
>> money.  My Imac was free, in exchange for a lot of hard computer work for
>> my
>> mother, and it's still only useful if I put Linux on it.
>>
>> Nothing wrong with collecting computers!  Wait until they're a fraction
>> of the
>> price.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
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