>WAY YO GO!!! I'd settle for an update for 9.2.1 What do you mean? Emailer 2.0v3 work in all Mac OS'es since 7. If you run Mac OS 9.2.1 you should really update to 9.2.2 ASAP, unless some major app of yours doesn't work with it, in which case I'll consider replacing it. 9.2.1 sucks. Also, together with Baton mail, I see no reason to upgrade Emailer functionalitywise in OS 9.
>since I am not going to bother with X ever....................I'd be willing to part with $150 >for it! As a long standing critic of OS X, going head to head with Unix heads not understanding the position of Mac OS *users* (as opposed to programmers), that's a sentiment I can't agreee with anymore. Mac OS X 10.2 is the most Mac-like and wonderful UI experience since Apple released System 8. On my G3/266 powerbook with only 128 MB RAM and default 4 GB HD, the OS is as responsive as 9.2.2, even in classic. On my G3/266 with 352 MB it's tad slower for some reason, but not by much. Probably this is due to it's running OS X Server on there. This responsiveness goes down, as in OS 9, if I run too many resource intensive apps, so I'm getting 512 MB for the PB ($105) and a faster 40 GB HD with 16 MB cache ($210). Keep in mind here that none of my graphics cards are Quartz Extreme supported. A new G4 iMac with QE support is *really* fast with 10.2.x. I tried one. On top of that I recognize these advantages on the top of my head: + Most major apps I used/use in Mac OS 9 are available in OS X versions. These include Dreamweaver MX, Photoshop 7, Bbedit, 4th Dimension, Netscape (in Chimera), iCab, Powermail (when I upgrade), Interarchy, MacSOUP, Realplayer, Snak, Dragthing, CopyPaste, Conceptdraw, Inspiration, Palm Desktop, Appleworks 6, Fast Track Scheduler, Project Timer, Emagic Logic 5.3, Reason 2, NI Traktor, Ableton Live and iMovie. Most are fast enough or even faster than OS 9 versions, especially when running several apps at once. + I also gain access to unique OS X apps such as Web Objects, Applescript Studio, omniGraffle, Maya (not a user myself though) and many many others. + The new audiocore in OS X saves from buying a hardware soundcard for latency problems in OS 9. Latency have been cut from around 30-50 ms to 2-4 ms. I can have movable audio studio on old hardware! + Pre-emtive multitasking so good that it makes me upset when I boot into OS 9. I can always switch apps, usually in under a second on my slow hardware. + This also means that apps can't block my machine. Very common experience in OS 9 even on G4 hardware. + Copying files over Ethernet is about 5 times faster, even when doing other major stuff. + Few apps crash anymore. + No Kernel panics since 10.1.3 + Emailer works fine in classic through ADSL. - Some apps, mostly Music apps such as certain plugins have not arrived yet. - You need to invest about a hundred dollars for more RAM, 30 MB seem to be the magic minimum, but usually 512 MB is downright wonderful. If you can afford 1Gb+, get it. - You need to get batchMod, Pseudo or Skeleton in order to get decent GUI file handling, with user rights and groups. Or you can turn this off on removable drives or other drives beside your boot. - I need to reboot once a week due to swap files adding up. I suspect this is because 352 MB is too little RAM for OS X. - Finder processes still blocks further usage in Finder. No different from OS 9. As a whole OS X 10.2.x is really usable even on old systems. You choose what you want, but whatever you might have had against OS X, most of it is history. Have whatever attitude you think service you, but whatever you do, don't spread FUD about what OS X is or isn't. If you do, that is a disservice for us other Mac users, that want to move forward. Not saying that you did that of course. Thank you for reading this far Micke Bystrom Project Manager Web & Idea Developer ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
