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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I just couldn't help myself, had to reply to this review :-) "First off, I can't say that I like the classic Mac menu bar on the top. It prevents multitasking from doing its job as it supposed to do it and it does not necesarrily make the system easier to use, as it probably made sense back in 1984 when the first Mac was introduced. " Bollocks. It is intuitively *much* easier to move the pointer to the Mac menu bar and utilise it than it will ever be under Windows. Using Windows, you have to find & hit the bar - wherever it is positioned on the screen - which is only a few (32 ?) pixels wide. Under MacOS (any flavour), just move the pointer as far up as it will go and voila! you're at the menu bar. Human interface studies have proved this time and again... How do you argue that a menubar at the top of the screen prevents multitasking from doing a proper job? Please, elaborate. "MacOSX is a (supposedly) modern 32-bit OS, based on the 15 year old BSD4.4 and Mach kernel, with a new, object-oriented GUI on top. " Old, yes. Tried & tested, yes. Rock solid, yes. Fast, yes. What's the problem? "The biggest problem is that the system is big and slow. Yes, the 10.1 update made the system faster, but not fast." Define "system". Darwin, the unix underneath, is plenty fast. Screamingly fast. Go test for yourself. The GUI needs tweaking & tuning, I'll give you that, but considering that 10.0.0 - 10.0.4 were more or less public beta's (tApple just had to deliver...). I'd say progress is darned good. Cheers, -Morten