>> But once I stripped off all the third party hardware, gave up running the
>> digital video applications I like to play with, and started to treat my
>> computer as a toy instead of a tool, it worked just fine. ;-)
>
> Oh goodness, what a great, and perfectly fitting summary of the os X
> experience. Please, may I use it as a sig?
Feel free.
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> 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.
How much memory and/or free drive space do you typically have when seeing
this behavior?
> 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.
I note some interesting anomalies when filesharing across system versions;
however, filesharing between MacOS X machines is apparently quite fast
I'd be interested in whether your results are on a G3 or a G4, what vintage,
etc.
When playing, I've mostly only seen the intermittent long delays when I was
resource constrained...and more often with a G3 than with a G4.
I theorize that the older your machine, the less stable MacOS X will be on
it. Similarly, the more, um, interesting your machine, the less stable. So
I'm interested in collecting more data points.
I do note that acquaintances have brought MacOS X up on a 9500-class machine
(although they apparently recompiled the (open-sourced) Darwin kernel to do
so).
> 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.
But the same was relatively true when moving from MacOS 6 to MacOS 7 and
when moving from the 68k to PPC. Really, it'll take compelling apps (and
more debugging) to bring MacOS X to the mainstream.
mikel
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