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 hate it when people say "fast enough," because they undoubtedly have slow reaction times. For me, there are only two OSs that are fast enough. Windows 2000, whose speed breaks down whenever the disk gets accessed, and BeOS, which I could pound on with impunity and still have respond better than Linux ever does. Its also disgusting that any modern OS, on modern hardware, should be comparable to "older Windows machines" in speed! OS X really doesn't have any features that warrent the speed hit. Linux is faster, has more features, and is completely free. Aside from Quartz (which will soon be made irrelevant with things like E17, which promise *fast* yet complex imaging models for Linux), and the killer XML config system, what does OS X really have to offer?