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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I have loved getting John Siracusa's take on OS X at ars technica and this article is just as great.... I know how OS X stacks up to several Windows flavors based on daily exposure - it was nice to read about another OS that tries (tried?) to be more.
I have to respond to all of the posts about the cost of Apple hardware. You do get more for your money in many ways. Plug+play has been a staple of the Mac world for years now. Computers last longer and upgrade fairly easy. And, if you don't have to have the top-of-line machine you can get stuff at nice prices - my EOL dual processor G4 450 is a screamer and it was like $1300. This computer won't feel slow for years to come...