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I flagged the article and downvoted everyone who has made a comment because Mac vs. PC flamewar at #1 on Hacker News is sad.
by menloparkbum 18y ago
I flagged the article and downvoted everyone who has made a comment because Mac vs. PC flamewar at #1 on Hacker News is sad.
- jcl 18y agoI agree that a flamewar would be sad, but I don't think this conversation has devolved to one yet. Many of the comments cite facts, give both pros and cons of Mac/PC, and are related to the claims in the article.
- Herring 18y agoThere isn't much of a discussion imo. The people who like it still like it, the people who don't won't. As for me, I've been meaning to try out Time Machine & ZFS so I just started up my OSx86 torrent.
- comatose_kid 18y agoNo ZFS in Leopard.
- Herring 18y agoWell I hear it can read/write ZFS & I'm getting solaris too.
- Zev 18y agoA bland OS X install can't write to a ZFS partition yet. You could try prereleases of ZFS for Mac from http://zfs.macosforge.org http://zfs.macosforge.org if you want write support. However, it doesn't let you boot to a partition with ZFS or index the partition with Spotlight. There's a few other limitations as well - look around the trac wiki and you should find the list pretty easily.
- cpach 18y agoTo me, who is about to buy a new laptop, these were some of the most interesting comments on HN for at least a week. I consider the Macbook's price tag to be quite good with regards to performance and design. Too bad it's not very Linux-friendly...
- TrevorJ 18y agoI agree with that as well-this is more balanced and informative than other sites.
- Tichy 18y agoDownvoting everyone who comments seems a bit over the top. Still, I was also dismayed to see the x-th article of this Mac vs PC pricing stuff on HN. I guess somebody is planning to buy a notebook and can't decide. To that someone: get over it already!
- nailer 18y agoI find it sad that people on News.YC think that 'PC' means Windows.