Hannibal of Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/columns/mac/mac-20050608.ars) says everything I was trying to say, only more knowledgeably and elegantly.
He also muses on why this shook the Mac fans so badly. I do think he underestimates the pull of Mac OS X as opposed to imagined hardware differences. Personally, I was souring on Macs and pondering decamping to something like an Intel Linux box just when OS X started to get interesting. I know a lot of old Mac enthusiasts never warmed to OS X and insist to this day that it violated everything the platform stood for, and some points they made concerning the UI and file system were valid (especially in the early versions), but for me it was fascinating to see it grow, and the idea of a fancy desktop OS that was also a Unix-like OS was extremely attractive to me, since I was pretty familiar with Unix.
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Date: 2005-06-10 09:10 pm (UTC)He also muses on why this shook the Mac fans so badly. I do think he underestimates the pull of Mac OS X as opposed to imagined hardware differences. Personally, I was souring on Macs and pondering decamping to something like an Intel Linux box just when OS X started to get interesting. I know a lot of old Mac enthusiasts never warmed to OS X and insist to this day that it violated everything the platform stood for, and some points they made concerning the UI and file system were valid (especially in the early versions), but for me it was fascinating to see it grow, and the idea of a fancy desktop OS that was also a Unix-like OS was extremely attractive to me, since I was pretty familiar with Unix.