The other day, Janel brought home a Mac G4 a friend had sitting around. He knew I was interested in trying out OS X and sent the system back for me. After some haggling, I managed to get Panther installed on the machine. This thing already had Quark, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, ImageReady and Office X on it! After installing Panther, I played around a little bit, checked out some mac sites (versiontracker, macosxhints and some others). Aside from a few annoyances, I’m really getting into the OS.

The main reason I;m trying this out is I want a laptop. I found a really sweet Acer or a 15″ Powerbook that costs twice as much. I really like the Acer, but the Powerbook is a sweet laptop, and I am becomming fond of OS X. I run Linux at work on my desktop and have a FreeBSD machine at home. My only complaint with *NIX-based desktops is their lack of multimedia support (especially web-based). OS X seems to be a nice balance between the two.