OSNews

I'm sorry that you had such a poor experiance using the worlds easist OS. It doesn't really surprise me though, most people using any windows variant usually have to learn to stop making things so hard on themselves. I personally find your article to be pretty biased. You discuss things "Transparency where it is not needed making text sometimes unreadable, too much of a gradient in the scrollbars etc." You don't provide a decent alternative for anyone to gauge what would be an acceptiable alternative. As for the the universal Menubar GUI aspects, it's been around for decades. Apple isn't going to just throw a good part of it's userbase (which arn't unix/windows/linux users) into a new OS that lacks any commonalities with what they've been using for years. Personally I WISH XP had such a menubar. I find that it is a wonderful organizational tool. Anyone who's ever had to deal with asking a computer user "What version of windows are you running and how much ram are you using" will appreciate the simplicity to just jumping into the apple menu. I will agree that although 10.1 is apple's "mainstream release", The OS is not fast enough, although as you mentioned this is a step in the right direction. XP is definitely more responsive, but it tries to do a lot less with it's GUI. (If you can stand the default color settings). Yet that is a temporary thing, 9.2.1 is a marked improvement in speed vs older iterations of the classic OS. Finally, If you're content with buying RAM from apple you've either got more money than most of us, or you're insane. 1.5GB of RAM was easily purchased for under 150$ from ENU electronics. RAM for my original imac (512MB) cost me 110$. You raise some interesting points, but you don't back it up with enough research. -Joseph P.S: How about explaining why the "megahertz myth" doesn't apple so much for Apple? Some of us still want the steak and not the sizzle.