Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 26th Aug 2002 18:13 UTC
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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Dear Macintosh Users,
While we love the Macintosh platform (free R&D and extra Microsoft Office bucks), we do encourage you to look at the vast variety of cheap and fast PC's as a viable second machine. For those times you need your software to run fast.
With Intel's latest 2.8Ghz Pentium 4 or AMD's latest Athlon 2600+, our UI is never slow. Couple market leading CPU speed with the best performing graphics systems you can get on any personal computer (ATI 9700 Pro, upcoming Nvidia NV30) and it is easy to see why Windows is the world's leading computing platform.
Instead of being control freaks and trying to write the graphics drivers ourselves, we encourage Windows OEMs to right the fastest possible drivers, using every feature of the graphics processor. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't let the graphics card vendor write much of the driver, sacrificing much of the speed of the hardware.
As long as Apple retains its crazy level of control over video drivers and stays with Motorola, the Apple user experience will always be sluggish, just like the original Mac.
Overall, OS X is a great source of ideas for Longhorn. And when we ship in 2005, our UI performance will be be stellar.
If you are a Macintosh Microsoft Office user, thank you for your support. We will continue to support your business productivity needs. We made our new MSN for Mac just for you. It's great and you should try it out. Let me know what you think.
Bill