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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Quote (Eugenia): ...I'm no lover of Microsoft, but to exist in the business world today, it's hard if you don't have Office. Office on Unix is a great combination, and Mac OS X is the only game in town. ---- Humm. Do you need M$ Office ? definitely NOT ! Our customers are pleased by our solutions we present them with StarOffice (a powerful alternative which is remarkable expensiv ;-), combined With a powerful Domino Server (Linux) as a workflow / webserver / database solution. So if you're not stuck on Billie Boy's software pieces, there are several alternatives there and guess which alternative will be more affordable to a company ;-)... Picking up Zenja's writing - Sherlock queries, booah what a lousy filesystem is working there. Jobs made a big mistake in here. This Filesystem is really out of time. Second big bummer, Zenja : the latencies on OS X.1 are still so baaad that I still got no idea how all this Multimedia software developpers are still on Mac. Look at QNX RTOS. Look at BeOS. These real-time OS'ses are the basement for a solid multimedia work. Mac isn't. 3rd : Quality of sound libs : well these point gets a -- ,too, for OSX. It can't compete with ALSA, OSS, nor Be's Media Kit, no Sir. I work on Mandrake 8.0 (8.1 now), and BeOS 5.03 Pro at home. No pain in the ass at home, please. At work we use W2YK Pro, some are stuck on their Macs in the office. Right now, a stress test for our PC's that we're going to deliver is going on (50 Office Workhorses running Duron 900's on 256MP, W2YK, ASUS Board, CD, 100MBit DLink NIC, ATI graphics (32 MB) with StarOffice & Lotus Notes completely for very expensive 500 US$/unit hardware/software costs ;-). It's a VB-Skript, which starts about 50 Windows (DOS,Editor, WordPad, Calculator, Backup, Paint, etc - including StarOffice & Notes) at once, closes it afterwards, reopens it again & so on. All of the 50 PC's are still up & running. No error messages. Nothing. For 24 hours now. Guys I don't like Microsoft W2000 - but when it's pretty configured - it's a damned workhorse.