>>> i yust wonder what the different mac users prefer.  Mac OS 9 or Mac OS
>>> X? and why?

OK, here's my take.  I bit the bullet and booted into X May 1st on my
QuickSilver PowerMac 733 with 640megs of ram.

On the down side:

X on my Mac has been very sluggish.  It takes a second or two to change
windows.  It takes even longer to switch between running apps.  I type a
sentence and it takes the screen a second or two to catch up.  I used to rip
CD's in iTunes at 9x and now it's less than 4x.

I spent a lot of money upgrading programs to run in X.

I really miss SpellCatcher (in beta), FinderPop, and especially my macro
program, OneClick.

On the plus side:

I love LaunchBar, Watson, and iPhoto.

No system crashes.

The bottom line is that I probably could have waited a few months longer
before I upgraded.  Probably Jaguar will offer comparable speed and more
features.  Also, by then there should be more software to make up for the
ones I lose.


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