RTP-area local music and culture

[redhatnooblet <pwnt AT dook.edu>]

stablenet AT nc.rr.com wrote:
> I went back to Mac two years ago because in laptops, the price isn't
> that far off. The machines seem to be better built and when I had an
> issue, I walked in, handed the computer to the tech and picked it up
> later. No charge, and he told me what had happened in layman's terms.
> 
> I do music on mine, and it works weel for recording and sound engine
> applications. I'm so happy with my Mac that at this point, even if I
> didn't do music, I'd use it just for 'net, email and word processing.
> It never crashes. As in *never*.
> 
> I'm on my second Mac laptop. I upgraded to a Powerbook because of the
> heavy duty case and I wanted a little more speed. My old one was fine
> and now my buddy Josh has it and is happy.
> 
> The switch was easy and the learning curve was not an issue. It's
> pretty intuitive.
> 
> I noticed your handle, and for what it's worth, I know a lot of Red Hat
> people who use Macs. I think it's because the back end is UNIX, right?
> 
No doubt there is something very lust worthy about Macs and their OS.
The promises of simplicity and for the most part getting it right. I
honestly can't afford them. I do my own support so I don't generally
need any help in that regard. I changed from a Mac user about 5 years
ago after I had bought my first "real" mac a 350MHz G4 with OS 9(before
that I had a really expensive ($3000 PowerComputing PowerCenter 150 * MB
of RAM, 150 MHz ppc604 and a 3 Gig hard drive). Loved it but I always
found myself paying a premium for software and sometimes not being able
to get titles I wanted. When they released OSX (beta quality), I bit and
was so turned off I got rid of everything and bought a pc. I have never
looked back.

fyi: I am a Network Administrator at Duke. I support RedHat, AIX,
Winserver2003 and do 2nd tier desktop support for a mixed environment of
about 25 Macs and 60 WinXP computers. Mac log about 40% more help
requests than our pc's. But it is because of user error/ignorance almost
90% of the time. While on the PC side most of the problems are hardware
related.