On 11/7/02 8:26 PM, "Amber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi :) Points well taken about not fixing what's not broken. However there are advantages to OS X, plus a nicer workflow it offers, that anybody should be semi-interested in... It's what the Mac OS will be for the next ten years or so. > BTW ..When you say OS 9 is not going to be supported anymore - do you > mean by Apple or by the software companies ? There are still some companies whose products are not running on X yet. Presumably they will continue to post updates. Most companies that have released OS X versions of their applications are focusing more on maintaining them, rather than developing new features for their OS 9 versions. Keep an eye on http://versiontracker.com/macos/index.shtml for how OS 9 updates come out. OS X updates can be obtained here http://versiontracker.com/macosx/index.shtml And as for Apple? No more releases for OS 9, unless they need to alter it's behavior to better run under Classic mode in OS X. Thankfully, 9.2.x seems to run fine. But, they haven't released a _FEATURE_UPGRADE_ for OS 9 in what feels like a year. But the big news is that, starting in January, all new Macs will not even BOOT OS 9. You read that right: not even BOOT OS 9. You'll only be able to run it in Classic mode in OS X. For what it's worth, I think OS X rocks! It's way more stable. It's faster at some things (but slower at others so far. Each release gets faster). It's better organized and executed. It's slick (for what that's worth). It's tough as nails (Crash an app? Just relaunch the app again. NO REBOOT!). It IS not "your father's Mac OS", however. Troubleshooting is way different and you have to throw much of the old book out. It prefers apps to be IN the apps Folder. It prefers you use it's UNIX heritage of a User Account folder structure. Sometimes permissions to do certain things from the system gets weird... Although, I have to say that I have not experienced that at all since upgrading to 10.2. The complex UNIX plumbing underneath has been effectively hidden from you, the end user. And, that complex UNIX heart was needed to get Mac OS into the realm if a modern operating system. Apple tried in the early nineties to do a next generation OS that still was as simple as Mac OS. It was called Copeland. They failed to make it happen. I'm running OS X on a G4/450 with an 2X AGP graphics slot. That's a three or four year old Mac. It runs great on it. OS X likes LOTSA RAM. Ram is cheap, and I have 1.5GB of it. That's overkill for the OS. 512MB would do most anybody well, unless you do heavy audio/video/photoshop. Also, an ATI Radeon graphics card or better allows OS X to send all the graphical rendering to the graphics card. Surprisingly, neither OS X (until 10.2) nor any version of Mac OS took advantage of your graphics card for the redrawing of windows and so on. If an app (like a game) was BUILT to do that, that's fine. But the Finder was not designed to take advantage of your graphics card. Anyway, I'll shut up now ;) -- Mac Canada is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Shop Canadian, visit Mantek Services <http://www.mantek.mb.ca> Low Prices That Will Keep YOU and Your MAC Smiling Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac Canada info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-can.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:mac-canada@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:mac-canada-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:mac-canada-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-canada%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
