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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"Windows 2000, whose speed breaks down whenever the disk gets accessed..." I guess the disk always gets accessed. HAHAHA. Surely you don't want me to believe that Windows 2000 is a fast OS? If anyone calls Mac OS X.1 slow and calls Windows 2000/XP fast, you must be on crack. Hierarchical menus draw very slowly in Windows for the little information (comparatively) that it's processing to actually draw it to screen. Nothing fancy at all, but it's still slow. I'm not saying the UI in OS X is zippy, but when the Windows UI is compared to any pre-Mac OS X Apple operating system, Windows feels downright poky. This is why most Mac fans complain about OS X. For them it "feels" like a step down. What's Microsoft's excuse? They had 7 years!