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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Forgive me if I don't understand exactly what you mean when you blast OSX for putting the menubar in a consistent location. You claim it doesn't allow multitasking to "work like it was supposed to." I don't understand this. It's a fact that while a computer may be able to work in many programs at once, a person can only use one at a time (though that person may switch back and forth between them fairly rapidly). As proof of this, I challenge you to open any two files in any two distinct apps in any OS, at the same time. You'll find that you can't; you have to leave one and enter the other, even if only for a second, in order to get the job done. Therefore, there is no need to display multiple menubars at once. Given this, the usability advantage of having the menubar in a consistent location, particularly when Fitts' Law comes into play, far outweigh the disadvantages. Or at least, that's how it seems to me. But I didn't invent multitasking, so I could be wrong. How do you think multitasking is "supposed to work"?