Only two points I disagree with:
I haven't tried "XP on less than a P4", but XP is not a lot more than a new shell on a caponised version of Windows 2000 Terminal Server, and I've run that on a non-MMX-Pentium-100. It's a lot closer to usable than OS X on the much faster PPC 604e on my 7600.
XP is no more usable on a P100 than 10.1 is on a 7600/120.
It's still a pity Adobe pulled on the choke chain when it came to porting Photoshop to Yellow Box and licensing DPS cheaply. If Rhapsody had come out on schedule with good performance on first generation PCI Powermacs...
When the Rhapsody project was started [1996] PCI Power Macs were in the beginning of their second or third generation depending on how you count [x500, then x600, then x300 models].
What you say about Quartz is true, but it also does a lot more than Quickdraw good or did.
All valid points and as I said it's all relative anyway.
A very real issue for me at least is the number of processes running on any OSX machine. I am a person who turned off extensions if they weren't needed as they, at the very least, added to the system heap and often added to the likelyness of crashing (needless to say less RAM was then available for other tasks) these sorts of tunings are much more complex under X. Quite frankly the hardware requirements for any modern OS are so rediculously high that I doubt we are going any faster production wise than running an IIfx with system 6.08.
Oops sorry I've strayed off topic a bit here, but I guess all I am trying to illustrate is that it works - so what if it takes longer ga and make a coffee or better still get outside and mow the lawns or take the dog for a walk!
Cheers
Simon
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