On or near 3/26/01 5:49 PM, Steve Sell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 3/26/01 8:30 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can see, the answer is "virtually none." Given the instability I
>> saw, which you mention,
>
> Okay, am I the only one on the planet who is not seeing instability. What
> instability??? Did X crash? Did classic? I've had X on my PowerBook G4
> since Wed last week and I haven't rebooted once! I log out, log in, stop
> and start classic, run Word, Entourage, etc. Not even a single crash in
> classic.... What do you people do to your poor macs???
>
Well, okay, your previous message mentioned that the IE on OS X is a beta. I
wasn't aware of that; there was certainly nothing to indicate it, and nobody
from the store said anything. All I knew was, it froze several times. So, if
I recall correctly, did the Mail app; I could be mis-remembering there.
Maybe it was only IE.
No, I didn't see X crash. Nor Classic. In fact, the store sales guy pointed
out that even though the app froze, I didn't have to reboot. Which was nice,
I admit.
However, if all my apps are going to be the same ones I am running now in
9.1, just under Classic, or beta apps for X that freeze every five minutes
or so, I still say, where's the benefit <to me> in upgrading at this point?
Why not wait until stable X-native apps are available?
I clearly see the advantage eventually. As I said, once Office comes out for
X, I will be chafing at the bit to switch. (For others, it will be other
applications that signal the time to switch.) I can't tell you how often
I've had Word freeze up for one reason or another, forcing me to quit a
half-dozen other apps and restart. It will be GREAT not to have to do that,
even if Word still freezes as often as ever. I've worked in the past on VAX
computers with protected memory and time-sliced shared processing...and I
have missed it for years on the Mac. I fear few people without a similar
background will understand as well as I do what the advantages are; it will
be worth the price for X. But NOT YET, not for me. I would be forced to work
nearly all the time in Classic, and there, if Word freezes, I still have to
restart the Classic environment and every application running in it. No real
gain in that that I can see.
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