Charles Davis wrote:
On Thursday, June 30, 2005, at 03:19 PM, Daniel wrote:
On Jun 30, 2005, at 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Oh geez. Do you REALLY believe that OS X is less reliable and less
efficient than OS 9? If so, cite specific examples to support your
claim.
Daniel
Not that simple Daniel. OSX is purposely "less reliable and
efficient" than it could be with very little more effort on Apple's part.
For example --- (May not still be the case with Tiger) --- the
'STANDARD' advice to 'rebuild the Desktop' ------ IF they would fix
those little annoying glitch type problems, instead of shoving them
under the carpet, there WOULD BE NO NEED TO EVER REBUILD THE DESKTOP.
(Yeah I'm shouting. I can't believe the 'good quiet sheep' attitude of
Mac users, not raising hell about such sloppy programming attitudes.)
JMHO
Chuck D.
You've NEVER had to rebuild the desktop under OS 9??? I know I have!
Conversely, I don't recall EVER having to rebuild the desktop under any
version of OS X (thru 10.3.9) that I've run yet. And as far as OS 9
being more reliable than OS X, that sure hasn't been my experience! I
had way more stability issues under OS 8/9 than I've EVER had under X!
The very few times I've had a kernal panic under OS X has always been
tracked back to a hardware issue, and never an OS problem. Sure, I've
had an app occasionally "unexpectedly quit" (like it would be an
"expected" quit!), but at least it doesn't take the whole OS down with
it, and nine times out of ten I can just restart the app and go on.
Can't say that about my experience with 8/9. I count uptimes on my OS X
machines in weeks, unless I need to restart for a software
update/install or we have a power outage. I can't count all the time I
got a system crash, or usually a system lock-up and forced restart under
8/9. Overall, I'm much happier with X. And before I hear about how I
must be running newer, faster, high-dollar machines, my laptop is a
G3/700 iceBook, and my fastest "desktop" (actually sits on the floor) is
a G4/450 Sawtooth with stock video and 896 mb RAM. I'm not a gamer, and
with only a 28.8 dial-up, these are plenty fast enough for now.
Hopefully someday I'll step up to a G5, but that will likely be the last
Mac I'll buy, as I'll never own a "Mac PC".
JR
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