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[geekchick]

I will not spend all day playing with the new Mac. Won't. I have actual work to do, and I will do it. Uh huh, sure.

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Did you get it?!?

[geekchick]

Yes, the nice FedEx lady dropped it off around 10 AM. Kawaii!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking of buying a couple as low-end ftp servers... they look stackable, and the small footprint and lack of monitor and keyboard is a plus.

[geekchick]

For that, you'd probably be better off buying old x86 hardware and putting Linux of some flavor on it, you can get it a lot cheaper.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Probably, except that the project lead CS uses a Powerbook and expects seamless integration, and using another MacOS box works slightly more smoothly for her than commodity-Linux.

Although if budgets continue to auger-in here, we could be scrounging rather than buying *any* new hardware.

[geekchick]

Seamless integration with what? I thought the rest of your network was Windows-based anyway, or is this a different project?

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

This is the Spanish drilling project... and virtually every computer is either a Mac or is x86/Red Hat. The latter being drill or embedded instrument control computers. Windows only exists on some individuals' laptops...