[OT] "MacMini" 7-8 years later

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger Eller wrote:

 > I really wish that Apple would at least allow an open source
 > fork of OS X so people can choose their own hardware.

A few years ago I discovered that there are more hardware options in the 
world than just six models. ;)

I love the security, robustness, and resource-friendliness of POSIX 
systems like OS X, but I also like to take full advantage of the wide 
variety of hardware options in the modern world, in which by now most 
people understand that computers are commodities.

Thankfully Linux is more than up to the task, with as many options 
available for how you like your OS as there are to fit your specific 
hardware preferences.

If Apple had a wider range of things for me to choose among I might not 
have branched out.  But it's turned out well so I say, "Thanks, Steve, 
for responding to our requests for choice by showing us the door, since 
on the other side I found Linux."

:)

Speaking of hardware, I have great respect for Intel but their list 
price for their NUC is way too high - NewEgg sell's em for less, and 
they also have a wide range of other case and CPU combos on their 
mini-barebones category:

<http://www.newegg.com/Mini-Booksize-Barebone-Systems/SubCategory/ID-309?Order=PRICE>


-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
  ____________________________________________________________
  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com        http://www.FourthWorld.com