NYCPHP Meetup

[Russ Demarest]

iPhoto will handle your photos and red-eye and minor editing.
I think everything else has been said. My god this should be an apple 
commercial.

I would go for the ibook and save a grand unless you are producing your 
own movies on it.

Good Luck


On Jul 6, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Stephen Musgrave wrote:

> I owned nothing but PCs until I bought my 15" PowerBook (titanium 
> edition, dual hinge) in 2002.  After years of Apple propaganda hoisted 
> at me by my brother and the emergence of OS X, the switch was on.  I 
> have never been so pleased with a computer.
>
> I should note that I did have some problems with OS X when it first 
> came out, but ever since the 10.1 series, it's bee perfect, not one 
> kernal panic (core dump) in two years.  (I am running 10.2.8 right now 
> and will leapfrog 10.3 for 10.4 which is not out yet:  
> http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/ )
>
> I also had a hardware problem.  I have the dual hinge model which 
> isn't on the market any longer.  The hinge ceased up as I was opening 
> the lid and tore titanium lid pretty bad.  I have Apple Care, so I 
> took it down to the SOHO store and they boxed it up and shipped it out 
> for repair after a cursory glance a raised eyebrow of accomplishment.  
> The laptop was delivered to my apartment 4 business days later.  
> Before they took it in for repair, I also had them note that some of 
> the paint around the edges was pealing (due to the excessive heat the 
> thing produces) and that the battery life was diminishing.  They 
> replaced *everything* and it looked like I had a new machine if it 
> weren't for the well worn keypad!  I noticed that in the new models 
> they've address the hinge problem by going to a study single hinge 
> design and the change materials to a high grade aluminum which has 
> absolutely not give at all.  (The titanium ones bend a bit.)
>
> I installed PHP and mySQL packages from Marc Liyanage's web site (a 
> well loved man in the OS X LAMP world.)
>
> 	http://www.entropy.ch/home/
>
> O'Reilly's Mac Dev Center is a gem:
>
> 	http://www.macdevcenter.com/
>
> Apple's site does a good job of rounding the edges:
>
> 	http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/
>
> This is a PHundamental I wrote for setting up virtual domains for OS X
>
> 	http://phundamentals.nyphp.org/PH_virtualhosting_mac.php
>
> Good luck!
>
> Stephen
>
> On Tuesday, July 6, 2004, at 05:37  PM, David Mintz wrote:
>
>>
>> I think it's time to move on from my old Dell Inspiron 2000 and I'm 
>> trying
>> to talk myself into a G4 PowerBook.
>>
>> You happy Powerbook owners, please tell me about how great they are 
>> for
>> AMP development. Persuade me how easy it is to run Apache/PHP, mysql, 
>> and
>> also things like the Zend and Eclipse IDEs, Tomcat, cvs (or perhaps
>> Subversion) etc. Assure me it will also be possible to figure out a 
>> way to
>> run the one and only Windoze program I'd like to keep, which is Paint 
>> Shop
>> Pro. Convince me that it will be fast and stable and just plain cool 
>> and
>> I'll wonder how I lived without it.
>>
>> Further, enlighten me as to what specs and features and stuff you 
>> think a
>> geek would require in order to attain nirvana.
>>
>> Also -- maybe a naive question -- can you build and install something 
>> like
>> Quanta (the html editor) on one of these things? I'd expect the 
>> install
>> might get weird because the standard locations of things are 
>> different on
>> Mac OS X vs. *nix platforms.
>>
>> Feel free to answer privately if you think this is too OT.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> ---
>> David Mintz
>> http://davidmintz.org/
>>
>>         "Anybody else got a problem with Webistics?" -- Sopranos 24:17
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