the mozilla project website. That said Safari is a good solid browser and is still my day to day browser, Again the mac integration between programs is the reason. the ability for the programs to work together is macs real strength. iLife is the best example, but I wont go into that here.
Yes there is that. Safari is integrated into the whole OS (much like IE). I ponder how well FireFox could "plug in" to MacOS. One thing I noticed is that Safari doesn't block popups.
Having unix underneath means it plays real nice with my linux stuff too. In fact I find it soo nice I have very little driving desire to put linux on them, unlike my other boxes.
Yes but it isn't the Unix I know... or rather Linux I know. BSD utils are ick. I much prefer the Gnu command line utils. Though with fink you can get all of those.
One of the new G5's is definitely on the shopping list, but I am watching for progress on OSX-4 Tiger.
Tiger certainly looks nice. Some nice UI and searching additions. Again stuff Linux GUIs would do well to mimic and/or improve upon.
For those things I still cant do under Linux macs are a good choice. And nowadays they are not that much more in dollar terms than and equivalent Windows + Intel/AMD box. (and most of them look Much nicer IMHO)
I've very impressed with the iBook I've gotten for my mother. I'm reluctant to hand it over... ;) At least I have my iPod to console myself with. One downer has been the lack of a MacOS native port of OpenOffice.org. I think my mother will have to buy MS Office for Mac. Which isn't cheap. :( The bundled AppleWorks just doesn't look up to scratch for what she will want, OpenOffice would have sufficed though. Regards -- Oliver Jones » Director » oliver(a)deeperdesign.com » +64 (21) 41 2238 Deeper Design Limited » +64 (7) 377 3328 » www.deeperdesign.com