Star Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar Review
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Aug 2002 18:13 UTC
Mac OS X Almost a year after our much discussed Mac OS X 10.1 review, it is time to write down our impressions from the new version of OSX, Jaguar 10.2. Is Jaguar worth the full $129 USD? Dive in for more. Update: Slashdot seems to agree with our review, at least on the backwards compatibility issue.
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UI - this is becoming an "OSNews mac thread standard topic"
by ~Seedy~ on Mon 26th Aug 2002 10:20 UTC

..that Apple should have done what MS did and provided an option to turn off all UI animations and effects.

WinXP runs fine on 300mhz K6/2/128Mb RAM/Onboard GFX when all interface appearance functions are disabled.. in fact on the same tasks its approx 10% faster than Win2k on it...

Apple are providing an elegant workaround by using a graphics accelerator to draw the UI but its still a workaround for a problem... their UI has made a "feature" jump that is somewhat beyond the ability of current hardware to deal with.

Lets hope - although if Apple are suddenly going for hardware speed, it seems very unlikely that they will.. that Apple will realise this eventually.

I also find it somewhat disturbing that backward compatibility has been broken so soon...