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“is it easy? can i still email? does it have (spider) solitaire?”
the first questions my mom asked about switching to a Mac.

after some research on the hyperweb i came up with four demo apps –
Solitaire Plus! for Mac OS X
Eric’s Ultimate Solitaire
Spider Solitaire clone
Solitaire to Dawn X

my mom thought the app which most closely resembled the PC version of spider and is the easiest to use is Solitaire Plus! for MacOS X.

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I used a Mac iBook for two weeks in July. I didn’t like it. I listed, among my reasons for switching back to Linux — no virtual desktops; very basic mail client; no possible modifications to look & feel (fonts, menus, etc); can’t put the Doc on the top of the screen; no useful ‘Split View’ like in Konqueror; no suitable, simple web programming tool equivalent to Quanta IDE (setup projects, connect directly to a server, configure the interface); and no highlight (copy)->middle-mouse-button-paste;

As a programming tool, it didn’t fit the bill. I definitely gave up too early and should have spent longer getting Konqueror and KMail running on OSX…but I didn’t.

Out of the blue, today on Wired is an article about Skinning Mac OSX using a tool called ShapeShifter designed by Unsanity. Turns out, Unsanity makes a bunch of cool tools. Tools to change the system (& other) fonts Silk ($10); configure menus Menu Master ($10); window-shading WindowShade X ($10); and more, some free too!

Subtotal: $30 USD

and Multiple Desktops?? Done. Virtual Desktop ($30) by Code Tek.

Subtotal: $60 USD

and some of the cool KDE/Konqueror features?? Still only in KDE/Konqueror.

oh yes, and the cost of OSX ($129).

Subtotal: $189 USD
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Mac $189; Linux/KDE $0-39;