Linked by Scot Hacker on Mon 17th Dec 2001 17:34 UTC
The story of how a BeOS refugee (and not just everyone, but the author of the 'BeOS Bible' book) lost faith in the future of computing, resigned himself to Windows but found himself bored silly, tore out half his hair at the helm of a Linux box, then rediscovered the joy of computing in MacOSX. Scot Hacker will describe his personal adventures with today's operating systems after he was set out to find an alternative to his beloved (but with no apparent future) BeOS. Update: Make sure you read the second part of the article, a rebutal, found here.
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In all a very useful report from the front, especially for those trying decide which way to go at this choice-filled time.
The reported slowness of OS X, even on a "supercomputer" is certainly disappointing. I do not have much experience with BeOS, but, heck, as Scott describes it the perceived speediness of the system sounds worse than Win95 or 98lite on my 200 mhz machine. Hopefully the optimization has just begun, but I cannot see it being anything but a looooooong process. [BTW, when I fooled around with a BestBuy 1 ghz floor model with XP installed I was appalled by how slowly the shell operated. The lastest version of Explorer must be a beast. Presumably an alternative shell like Litestep can be substituted in as with Win9x.]
The lack of a freeware/cheapware tradition in the Apple community is a big negative for me. I love trying and fooling around with all the stuff that is available for Windows and *nix, seeing if there is an improved experience available over any of the current items in my toolkit. To each his/her own.