On or near 3/26/01 3:08 PM, Harry (lists) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> on 3/26/01 10:41 AM, Allen Watson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> I was not impressed
>
> In opposition to the general love-fest over os X, neither was I. I
> personally suggest no one waste their money on it, until at the very least
> Apple addresses some of the glaring performance and stability issues.
>
> I'm not even talking about the inconsistencies within Aqua.
Someone in the store yesterday was telling me, "There's no reason not to
upgrade. Anything you run now under 9.1, you can run under Classic in X." To
which I replied, "Yeah, but if virtually everything I run would have to run
under Classic anyhow, with all the potential for memory corruption I enjoy
under 9.1, what gain is there in upgrading before a significant portion of
my software is available in OS X native?"
As far as I can see, the answer is "virtually none." Given the instability I
saw, which you mention, a move to X might be (for me) a net loss at this
time. When Office comes out for X, for me that will change the whole
picture, since 80% of my time is spent in Word and Entourage.
At that point I will still face (for my very limited budget) serious
financial limitations to upgrading: the cost of X itself, adding memory to
two machines (or at least to one), and (possibly) needing to replace my
external hard drive (which I consider utterly essential for backing up my
iBook) with one supported under X.
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