If you've never used an OS that gives you good multi-tasking abilities and decent protected memory, you don't know what you are missing. The Mac OS is okay in those areas to some degree but in others, well, that's why OS X.
It should be a lot harder to bring down, as in it will rarely crash. A program will die but the system will still be stable. Lots of people may say, "well, my application crashed but it didn't bring down the entire computer (OS 8-9)," but we all see the note that basically says if the application has crashed you should restart. Well, in my book, if the ap crashes and I have to restart that is nearly the same as having one application bring down my system. Sure, I can save other programs and control the restart, but I still lose all the time of the restart. OS X should be such that after Word or Photoshop crashes I just restart those programs, not the OS. Protected memory and such gives it that stability. Multi-tasking and multiprocessor support give a lot of power to do more and to do it faster. Not really a pig in poke, but questionable as to when one should upgrade. If your system works for you as is, just wait. Just a few thoughts, Pete At 02:13 AM 9/27/2001 -0400, you wrote: > I have read the macaddict issues on OS X and I am lost. I simply >did not understand what I read. Are there articles or www-sites that >explains at the level of "OS X for dummies"? Why it is so great? I >hate buying a pig in a poke. > >-- -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
