On Sunday, June 16, 2002, at 02:19 AM, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 08:15:48PM -0700, Dennis Eberl wrote: > >> That's interesting Larry. You see, I've been using a Mac so long (started >> with a Lisa) that the desire to run any GUI other than that supplied by >> Apple never even occurred to me. > > One of my high school buddies, who has a degree in computer science > and has been doing digital photography/desktop publishing on Macs > since 1990 and currently works as a "new media" consultant, doesn't > use OSX. He says it's too buggy and doesn't have good support for > video editing. "I think I'll wait a bit longer before I switch." > He doesn't seem excited about OSX at all. That's good to know. I still use -- OS 9.6 is it? -- for most of my Adobe stuff, which I can afford to upgrade to OS X versions. Have you talked to your friend recently? I would be surprised if the video editing stuff hasn't improved under OS X at leaps and bounds, but I just wouldn't know. The move to OS X is a big undertaking for Apple. Rome wasn' t built in a day. I've heard complaints that GUI operations under OS X seem to require a lot more hardware computing horsepower than under OS 9.x. Probably true. > I guess once you find something that does what you want they way you > want it to, everything else pretty much sucks ... hmmm ... I think I > can relate ;) Yup, if it ain't broke and all that... > And, of course, there's that "best tool for the job" thing. Then again, > M$ has distributed enough innefficient crud and FUD to make people think > they need to "throw out the old computer because it's useless" and get > a gig processor to read email and surf the web. LOL! Yup. > Not that I'm against > technology "trickling down", it's just that a lot of good stuff ends > up in the dump, and chip manufacturing isn't exactly a "green industry". Yup again. There is still so much you can do with even MS-DOS 6.2.2 and the TCP/IP protocol stack software that you can run under it, especially if you are dealing with handicapped people who have to "one-thing-at-a-time-it" and just can't use all that GUI "sensory overload" that drives the need for said ungreen industry. > Anyway, three cheers to Apple for helping to show that OpenSource works! > > -- > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yup. Thanks for replying. Dennis
