Sathya's Views..

The Mac Mini was launched in a typically subdued way in India with a competitive price tag of Rs 25,000 or thereabouts. Having worked on Macs and only Macs for the past four years and more, and having had experience with Windows before that, I can confidently assert that Mac OS X is the best OS I have ever worked on and Apple definitely makes the best computer hardware there is. Just compare the iMac with any PC around and you can see the difference. Apple has never had a major presence in India which is almost completely Windows oriented (though Linux has been making impressive inroads in the past few years). I attribute this to two important reasons : - the cost of the Mac which is roughly equivalent to the cost of 4 PCs - the complete absence of any kind of marketing Hopefully, the Mac Mini would address the first of these issues. Lets see - 25k for the Mini, Rs 5000 for a decent monitor and add in another 2000 for a keyboard-mouse. So for less than Rs 35000, you are working on the...

Ok - lets accept the fact that I am not going to be one of those frequent bloggers much as I wish I was. I cant think of any reason why I cant be so, except that most insurpassible of troubles - laziness. I thought it was time I blogged my tribute to Gemini Ganesan, one of the very popular Tamil film actors, who passed away last week. Gemini definitely had a charm all his own. He had a niche for himself even during the times when MGR and Sivaji Ganesan held sway over the Tamil film world. He was not a people puller like MGR or an actor of the calibre of Sivaji. Yet he carved out his own definite slot - the gentle, middle-class and educated lover who serenaded hs heroines in the old way of poems and songs. I have never been even remotely attracted to MGR and his films. So lets stick to the two actors whom I enjoyed more than anyone else in Tamil cinema - Sivaji and Gemini. Sivaji arrived after a firm innings in theatre which meant that he had the ability to emote better and was much mor...