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 at one time had my Mac G3 and a few PC's running BeOS, Linux, Windows of all varieties. I guess I alway use Windows and Linux to get my work done. I was once an avid Mac fan, but no more afetr the fall of the clones the the horrible effort required to run OS 8&9.
I do not have OS X - I have played with Darwin on my G3.
In essence, since my Mac crashes under OS 9 continuously, I felt no need to go any further with Mac products until Macs close the speed and reliability gap, hopefully under OS X. Having used OS X, and having a dual Athlon MP and several other dual processor PC's at my disposal, there is no speed comparison. The anecdotal evidence presented that Windows XP is slow are pointless, but in general Windows 2000 is very stable and very fast given the right hardware. And the comments by some that Apple hardware is somehow "higher quality" better check their facts. Mainstream motherboards are now actually FAR better in terms of components than the quality used by Apple. Case in point - Apple shipped a bunch of PC66 DIMMs as PC100s since they passed Apple's PC100 test. VERY BAD! I have seen shipping G4 boards with soldered wire work arounds. This is NOT quality folks!
I'm sure that if Motorola releases the promised processors as announced by MacOS Rumours I will be interested in the Mac again, but right now that slow G4 processor is NOT equivalent to a 2 GHz P4 - that's just hype. There are a few apps which have Altivec optimization but that obviously does not help when you're waiting for Explorer 5.5 to launch.
I laugh anytime I see people clinging to the Apple dream that somehow their slow processors can use Altivec to make up the difference. Mac users, do the right thing! - demand that Apple fix the MHz problem or you'll leave the platform. They could be running on Athlons NOW - the code was there in NextSTEP but killed by Jobs for some weird reason, so the biggest threat to Apple is now their insane dependence on a dying processor line that is only half heartedly supported by a battered Motorola.
Mac Users - demand performance from Apple!