Linked by David Adams on Mon 15th Oct 2001 02:23 UTC
OS News' review of Mac OS X last week certainly stirred up controversy, partially because some die hard Mac fans perceived that it was improper for an outsider (someone who is not an everyday Mac user) to me making broad criticisms after only a superficial introduction to the New operating system. Well, folks, that's why they call it a review. We thought that Apple's major new OS also deserved a road test, and there were two very important events in Mac OS X history just a few days ago that toppled the last major obstacle to making it ready for millions of Mac users to start using it as their everyday OS: the 10.1 release and the release of Microsoft Office X. Last week, I made the switch and started using Mac OS X as my everyday OS. Here's how it went:
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I just wanted to present a few contrasting points of view to your statements above. RAM Prices: What's the big deal? I can buy a 128MB chip for $13.00, a 256MB chip for around $27.00 and a 512MB chip for under $50.00. I think the average user can afford any one of these. C++ a programming standard: No it isn't. Most places I've worked use Delphi, Java, (heaven forbid) VB, C++, and so on for applications, but almost always C for system programming, which is what OSX would fall under. Who cares what it's written in anyway as long as it works. I doubt wholeheartedly that moving from ObjectiveC to C++ would really buy them anything in the performance or end user areas. Java can't compete with C++: Actually, when run through the VM, 1.4 comes pretty close to DLL performance. However, as I've said in this forum before, there isn't anything keeping you from compiling your Java code into native machine code, in which case both perform pretty much the same. Java also has other advantages such as being able to do Servlets, which are superior to CGI. Ja,