I'd venture my opinion on an old subject but please do not flame me. I've
been insulted elsewhere by Mac zealots (none here, right? ;-) ) for stating
my views on this matter.
1) The old Mac OS is easy to troubleshoot. Very few things can go wrong.
2) The old Mac OS was limited, yes, but Macs were (supposedly) for the rest
of us. At one point in time that changed, and the market and the developers
expected top performance too.
3) This is key: Switching to OSX was the same as switching to Linux or
Windows, except for the fancy and cute UI with some familiar logos and
icons. With OS9 you had a simple but marginal OS. With OSX you have a
complicated and marginal OS. It was clear to me that there was no reason to
go OSX and went mainstream (Wintel). That was very right for me and my
needs, might not had been so for others.
4) XP is complicated too but there are way much more resources to tackle
problems, and they are cheaper. And the availability of software is
exponentially superior (another key issue).
OS9 is a long-lost never-forgotten love and XP is my trusted partner. Both
sit on my physical desktop. But There's no OSX in my desktop, it wouldn't
fill any current need (the first love that went nasty and wants a second
run? Naa, I'll stick to my memoirs).
At 08:43 PM 12/29/2005, you wrote:
I fail to understand this at all. Personally, I think OS X is the best
thing to happen to the Mac OS ever.
This is true. Apple, the computing company, wouldn't have survived with a
revamp of their product line. But it is clear that in the process, the
"rest of us" concept was virtually killed. I think that today, Wintel is
way more for the rest of us than OSX.
Much better than anything before it. I run X on all my machines that are
capable of running it except my Molar, and as soon as I get a bigger HD
and a bit more RAM for it, it will be dual-booting 9.22 & Jag. But it's
your dime......
J (who doesn't like being stuck in the past)
Ing. Pablo Roufogalis L.
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