Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 11th Oct 2001 17:24 UTC
I went on and wrote a review about MacOSX 10.0.4 a month ago, but it was never finished as I had to fly to France for my own wedding. I came back and MacOSX 10.1 had been released. I scrapped completely the old text, as 10.1 brings some more speed and new features to the system, and restarted writting the review from scratch.
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Your appraisal of the Mac is a bit bizarre. Firstly, the cheapest iMac is $799. Admittedly, that's 500 Mhz, but its a lot less than $1300. For $1300, you can have an iBook, which outruns and outfeatures any other notebook in its class (Firewire? Airport? 100bt? etc.). Mac OS X takes advantage of the G4's velocity engine; you used only G3 machines. Apple commands a price premium, but delivers a level of integration and built-in functionality I would love to get with our windows boxes. Macs are not for the home-brew computer crowd, though OS X is opening up a whole new vista of system level tinkering. Certainly there are things that one can criticize about Mac OS X . I agree that speed is an issue, but 10.1 is considerably better than 10.0.4 and this will only improve (proof? check out: http://newforums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=4... for a hack enabled window buffer compression in 10.1) The sluggishness of the finder is due to an architecture that is technologically new: a third-generation display layer. (see John Siracusa's insightful articles at Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/01q2/macos-x-final/macos-x-1.html The Quartz layer does more (much more) than the display layers of Be OS, or any MS OS, and its capabilities are only beginning to be leveraged by developers. As processor speeds increase and OS X is optimized, the minor display speed issues (and they are minor) will disappear. I use Windows 2000 (on a dual 1000 Mhz PIII) everyday and I would far rather be on my 867 Mhz OS X 10.1 box. It is overall a far smoother and more productive environment. YMMV, of course.