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The Mini-Note XP Answer

From Engadget again, which is darn nigh official on such pronouncements:

While there’s of course nothing to stop you from doing a fresh install of Windows XP on your brand new HP 2133 Mini-Note yourself (assuming you’re actually able to get your hands on one), those looking for a simpler solution will apparently be able to get their fix in mid-May, which is when the company will reportedly start to offer XP pre-installed on the ultraportable. What’s more, according to Laptop Magazine, there could also be a fully configurable version available “in the coming weeks or months,” although exact details on that possibility apparently haven’t quite firmed up yet.

So Nathan, if you really, really want one preloaded with XP, you’ve only to wait until May. 

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Too bad you can’t get one loaded with MacOS…

Well, too bad for you

I wouldn’t want one with MacOS.

OSX would rock though. 

What I really, really want is simply an updated version of my old, beloved 12” PowerBook.  Since Steve is apparently not in any hurry to give me one, I’ve instructed my account rep at CDW to let me know when the Vista Business version is in stock, because I’m very seriously thinking about getting one.  Yeah, VIA sucks, but it would spend 99% of its life doing e-mail in Outlook, web browsing, banging out the occasional document in Word 2007 and taking notes in OneNote.  I’ll bet even the craptacular C7-M can handle that.

Details We still call it MacOS in the shop.

We had a potential MacOS customer (I think our third!  Wow!  Mac servers rule!) complain yesterday (quite snottily, in fact) that our software reports the version number of the OS as “MacOS 9.2.2” when it’s “clearly” running OSX 10.5.2.

As our lead developer then pointed out, if uname -a reports 9.2.2 (which it does), that’s what our software reports, and maybe Apple could address that discrepancy at some point.  Otherwise, not our problem.

(And this is hardly limited to Mac folks.  Similarly, we have people bitching because MySQL—or more properly, I suppose, the MySQL ODBC connector—doesn’t support escape clauses properly per the SQL standard, and our software insists on using escape clauses—and we clearly document that if your DBMS doesn’t support them, you’re going to have a problem using our software with your DBMS.  Again, it’s not our problem that MySQL refuses to toe the SQL standard line.  But try to tell customers that.)

Mac servers, meh.  Apple has done one of the spectacularly poor jobs in the history of marketing even letting anyone know that Mac servers even exist.  I’m hard pressed to identify anything that they’ll actually DO though, and I think that’s part of the problem. 

I suppose if you absolutely had to have a mail package on a Mac server you could run Kerio… but I’m not sure that’s any big improvement over any number of mail servers that run on Linux.  They’ll do file/print.  But so does Linux.  They’ll run your company’s stuff.  But so does Linux.  Open Directory?  Yeah, Linux.  And that company in Redmond has server software that does all that kind of crap too. 

I’ve always thought the advantages of the Mac interface were somewhat lost on servers. I’d much rather spend my server money on VMWare, Linux, Windows and IBM i Series minis.  And apparently so would everyone else, Mac servers don’t exactly fly off the shelves.

You’ll enjoy this.  The Mac customer just told us that we were full of shite, and that our developers were obviously making up the version string out of whole cloth (to make the Mac look bad, I suppose).

I can’t wait to hear what the boss says about that.  I mean, the customer actually ran uname -a himself and sent us the output, so I don’t know what he’s complaining about.

I couldn’t care less if your software tells me it’s running on a Commodore 64 as long as it does what you say it will. 

Weirdness.

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