on 3/26/01 3:58 PM, Steve Sell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My question to you is: what stability issues? I've been using OS full time
> for over a week. No crashes, no kernel panics, nothing. I've had some of
> the BETA software (IE, OmniWeb) crash on me, but they just die, then I
> resurrect them with a single click. Exactly as advertised.
I do simple things, like log on to a Mac, mount a drive, copy some files; I
do other simple things, like copy files from one drive to another; or other
simple things, like browsing the web, or checking mail.
During any of these tasks, the dreaded spinning raindbow cd (a constant
reminder of the NeXT underpinnings, and what the os X team wants the Mac to
be) appears, effectively completely freezing up the machine (no application
switching), requiring a restart.
I'm sure you could argue technically that this isn't a crash, since the
machine is still capable of doing something, and that I could potentially
telnet into the machine and abort the frozen process, but let's be perfectly
honest -- when a machine becomes unusable, it's a crash, and that is what I
call unstable.
Furthermore, since most operations that take seconds of minutes under OS 9,
now take several times longer, I'd say that this severely impairs
productivity.
os X, currently, is an interesting technology demo, and as such there will
be people that it will work fine for - for the rest of us that actually use
our Macs as serious tools, os X is VERY far away from being a usable OS
alternative.
Just IMO.
Harry
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