Linked by Jon Atkinson on Tue 20th May 2003 18:14 UTC
I entered the world of Apple hardware about 3 months ago now, with a second-hand iBook2. It was a 500mHz, 256mb, ATI Rage 128 model, with a standard CD-Rom drive. I spent the first few days trying to tweak Mac OS X to my liking, then a few further weeks installing and learning to use the applications I thought I'd need. Chimera, BBEdit, the developer tools, even the Fink X server so I could use Gaim.
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"OS X on Apple hardware should just work well out of the box."
Everything works fine here.
"I can't see how Apple can justify the cramped feeling of OS X on such a high-resolution display."
What cramped desktop? I run finder with 128x128 icons and there is plenty of space for iTunes and Mail apps.
"Even simple applications like the terminal were taking around ten seconds to load; unacceptable..."
Uh? On Windows XP(P4 1.7), it takes about 20 secs just to open I.E.
and last: "This article isn't a flame."
I'm not so sure about that. If it was really about Apple's hardware then you would have not written the first page filled with nonsense.
But then, why have simple and functional when you can have something over complicated right?