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Scott, Barbara, thanks for your comments.
Re PM mail notification... today I just received a half dozen notes
about a plug-in
necessary to be notified (in X) when mail is available. Maybe there are
other means on the
program to get this kind of news but I haven't seen it yet and an awful
lot of people don't
seem to know about it.
re systems 9 & 10: My wonderful machine very rarely crashes and I
occasionally run it with
IE, Netscape, Filemaker, Photoshop , Word and sometimes QuarkXpress all
at once before
remembering to quit one or two of the programs before it does give up on
me... usually three
or four apps plus music is common. Rare crashes--- couple a month.
I too care deeply about appearance but don't feel gum drops and jelly
bean shapes are
necessarily beautiful or particularly functional... and I much prefer my
crisply organized
navy blue desktop which displays a couple hundred color coded aliases
(apps, personal and
business folders, urls, play lists, etc.) over X's rather limited tool
bar, so that I can
dive in and out of my working and playing folders. Am also quite
unwilling to give up on or
run out and buy new versions of already working software to accomodate
gumdrops artwork.
We are both mac hounds for sure, but probably very different sects of
same religion.
Regards,
BillB
Beige G3 + firewire & usb added
System 9.2
448 megs ram
40 gigs Hard Drive
Cable internet access
Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote:
> >Am just not seeing point of X's bells & whistle,
>
> Bill,
>
> While I'm sure others will address your points about PM's other features
> (yes, it most definitely notifies when messages arrive, etc..), Let me
> make two short comments about OS X (anything beyond this would not be for
> this sort of list anyway).
>
> (1) Does your Mac ever crash or freeze? If so, how often? With OS 9, I
> would estimate I had 2-3 crashes per week which required a hard restart,
> and the resulting lost work. With OS X, I've had two crashes in 18
> months of use, and both were when using goofy, dangerous freeware. It is
> stable, stable, stable.
>
> (2) If you care about appearances, OS X is just beautiful. Even if the
> gorgeous icons and other eye candy don't do anything for you, the
> wonderfully rendered text is so much easier to read for me. God praise
> Verdana! When I sometimes see a Mac still running OS 9 these days, it's
> relative ugliness shocks me when I realize I used to be staring at that
> all day.
>
> ---
>
> Scott T. Hards
> President
> HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
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Scott, Barbara, thanks for your comments.
Re PM mail notification... today I just received a half dozen notes
about a plug-in necessary to be notified (in X) when mail is available.
Maybe there are other means on the program to get this kind of news but
I haven't seen it yet and an awful lot of people don't seem to know about
it.
re systems 9 & 10: My wonderful machine very rarely crashes
and I occasionally run it with IE, Netscape, Filemaker, Photoshop , Word
and sometimes QuarkXpress all at once before remembering to quit one or
two of the programs before it does give up on me... usually three or four
apps plus music is common. Rare crashes--- couple a month.
I too care deeply about appearance but don't feel gum drops and jelly
bean shapes are necessarily beautiful or particularly functional... and
I much prefer my crisply organized navy blue desktop which displays a couple
hundred color coded aliases (apps, personal and business folders, urls,
play lists, etc.) over X's rather limited tool bar, so that I can dive
in and out of my working and playing folders. Am also quite unwilling
to give up on or run out and buy new versions of already working software
to accomodate gumdrops artwork.
We are both mac hounds for sure, but probably very different sects of
same religion.
Regards,
BillB
Beige G3 + firewire & usb added
System 9.2
448 megs ram
40 gigs Hard Drive
Cable internet access
Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote:
>Am just not seeing point of X's bells & whistle,
Bill,
While I'm sure others will address your points about PM's other features
(yes, it most definitely notifies when messages arrive, etc..), Let
me
make two short comments about OS X (anything beyond this would not
be for
this sort of list anyway).
(1) Does your Mac ever crash or freeze? If so, how often?
With OS 9, I
would estimate I had 2-3 crashes per week which required a hard restart,
and the resulting lost work. With OS X, I've had two crashes
in 18
months of use, and both were when using goofy, dangerous freeware.
It is
stable, stable, stable.
(2) If you care about appearances, OS X is just beautiful.
Even if the
gorgeous icons and other eye candy don't do anything for you, the
wonderfully rendered text is so much easier to read for me. God
praise
Verdana! When I sometimes see a Mac still running OS 9 these
days, it's
relative ugliness shocks me when I realize I used to be staring at
that
all day.
---
Scott T. Hards
President
HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
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