DesktopLinux.com: How a Freak Powerbook Accident Made Me Into a Linux/Laptop Geek

And, I really appreciated the CLI as an addition to the intuitive GUI. So, OS X was exactly what I had been waiting for.

"Well, one day I had taken [my Powerbook] with me down to a local Net Café figuring that I could download some updates at more than 3.0k/sec. I got my cup of dark roast, exactly how I like it ('off-black' with 2 sugars). I plugged into the network, booted into OS X, started downloading some cool stuff off my iDisk, and started to poke around the web with OmniWeb.

"Then, it happened... it just froze... and it would not reboot..."

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