Almo
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I don't expect an OS to be exciting. I expect it to be stable, and let me run programs. I've been very happy with OS X 10.4.
Ian Osborne
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I see your point, but were you not excited when you first heard about Dashboard? Or Spotlight? I know I was...
Almo
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Dashboard... well it's kind of neat, but not a big deal to me.
Spotlight is nice, but Macs have always had better search than Windows, so again, not very excited.
What excites me about Mac OS is stuff like this:
Back in the days, I had System 7.5.3 on a PowerMac. I friend came by, and we were trying to play a network game. There were problems. So I said, let's install the new operating system patch, 7.5.5. Being a Windows guy, he turned pale. I said, "nah, this is a Mac. it'll be easy." I DLd the patch, installed it, and bingo! The game worked.
He was stunned. Also, the ability to do a complete reinstall of the OS without having reinstall your apps is VERY nice. That kind of thing excites me.
Dark Jaguar
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Well I'm not sure what your friend was turning pale for (maybe his system was screwed up so bad updating was hard? Pretty easy in windows...), but I will certainly attest to the fact that far too many windows apps seem to store very needed stuff in the registry, or at least used to. I say all programs should store their stuff in their own seperate config file. The only acceptions would be file type associations, and those should be portable so I can back those up.
spotlight needs work. rarely do i need to search through every document like it wants to do (it's fast about it, but unnecessary).
Dashboard is neat. I use it more and more as time goes on.
Expose is cooler and I use it more and more also, but I still want virtual desktops and the current utilities out there for this just don't suit me.
Dashboard is neat. I use it more and more as time goes on.
Expose is cooler and I use it more and more also, but I still want virtual desktops and the current utilities out there for this just don't suit me.
10.1 was a free upgrade.
Ian Osborne
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Not if you were running Classic at the time.
Almo
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At the time, new Windows patches often caused as much trouble as they solved.
Plus, when you install a new version (like from Win 95 to Win 98) you have to reinstall all your programs. The Mac just dumps the old System folder to Old System, puts in the new stuff, and it runs like before.
I did a complete reinstall of Mac OS 7 once, and it took about 20 min, and caused no problems and required no reinstallation of anything. All I had to do was drag the extensions from the Old System:Extensions to System:Extensions.
Yes, in those days, ":" was the directory serperator in Mac OS. Weird!
coalesce
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But you didn't have to suffer through 10.0.0, that was worth something right? (I started with the Public Beta....)
coalesce
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Quite right. I purposely waited until 10.1 so the initial slew of bugs would be ironed out. I likened it to buying a new car in it's second model year. The first model year is when most of the obvious flaws find their way to the surface. The second year is the one to get.
Michael
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Actually whenever I've updated from one major release of Windows to the next, it spends some time porting all the installed programs to the new OS. They all seemed to work fine (if they could work with the new version at all mind you
).My mother did a complete reinstall of OS 7 on her aged Performa once. (No idea why.)
This is undoubtedly the biggest ever indicator that the Mac OS is user friendly and as idiot proof as OSs come. (Love ya Mum!
)Dark Jaguar
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That'll do it! My mother shies not just away from computers, but from CABLES IN GENERAL. If it isn't a power cord, she's afraid to go near it. Every time I try to say "it's so SIMPLE, I can teach you in seconds if you'll just let me" she interrupts and says "I just don't want to bother with all that complicated stuff". She's never even given me a CHANCE to teach her how to switch out input cables on the back of the TV.