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Post #23,063 by Ashton 1/3/02 9:12:09 PM Reply	Thanks.._________I think {sigh} There won't ever again be a no-brainer choice in this bizarre 'field', I'm beginning to notice. And the Blackcomb threat? promise? (especially with the added fillip of Bugging the shit out of Larry Ellison! -- surely a major preoccupation in the middle-aged Billy-mind?). All this stuff now in abeyance - pending our all finding out if .. .. Judge K-K is a wimp, too [??] Amazing set of dominoes being positioned. As Tom suggests - it is a personal preference thingie - re the UI. And maybe ignorance is bliss, for one unaccustomed to previous Mac UI variants. Probably best (for me) that I never experienced the Next Step environment, which appears to be right up there with OS/2 Workplace Shell.. in the kudos list. On my list: go visit local Apple dealer reel soon. Will post my incompetent first impressions for your amusement and guffaws :-\ufffd Hell.. it'll be 'New' anyway! but a Kia or a Bugatti .?. Ashton
Post #23,070 by Meerkat 1/3/02 9:27:50 PM Reply	Bugatti looks with Kia performance. BTW is it just me or has everyone else made the association that KIA = Killed In Action? Oh, and I mean a nice Bugatti, not one of those interesting prototypes. OS X, or more specifically Aqua, has a huge 'Ooh' and 'Aah' factor because it does indeed look fab compared to anything else. I believe it's quite wonderful to work with on G4 machines, but on my 500MHZ iBook (G3), I wouldn't accuse it of outperform Phar Lap. Heck, at times I wouldn't accuse it of outperforming Fatso the Wombat. However, it's primarily because I'm trying to do too much in 192 Mb of RAM. Despite its occasional bouts of wombattedness, it's still very much a pleasure to use. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,077 by nking 1/3/02 11:01:15 PM Reply	More than just "Eye Candy" Aqua is nice, but what else can it do that other OSes can't? "In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
Post #23,079 by Meerkat 1/3/02 11:28:42 PM Reply	It's a Mac. I know that doesn't answer the question though. I guess my fondness for OS X is part practical, part principal. A very big plus for me is that it isn't (very) Microsoft. Another plus is the good tie-in between the hardware and the software. Like, regardless how many driver updates and things I've done, my PC still has its times where it flatly refuses to wake from sleep, things like that. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,083 by nking 1/4/02 12:18:27 AM Reply	It's an Amiga The same argument can be used for the Amiga, which ironically, is still being sold. AmigaOS 3.9 is the latest OS release and 4.0 isn't that far away. It isn't made by Microsoft, and it isn't Windows. It has a nice GUI, and a stable OS. The Amiga One/AmigaDE is migration to the PowerPC platform. It can run PC programs via emulators if need be, just like a Macintosh. it doesn't have any big egos behind it, like Apple has Jobs, but it is a nice little system that could. I still do not see a reason why I should switch to OSX, but I would like to try it someday and see what all the fuss is about. "In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
Post #23,087 by tjsinclair 1/4/02 12:25:34 AM Reply	I don't think anyone here is insisting you switch... Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen [footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction"]. -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies)
Post #23,142 by nking 1/4/02 2:01:06 PM Reply	Sorry then I must have had flashbacks to the MacJihad days? "In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
Post #23,148 by Meerkat 1/4/02 4:03:02 PM Reply	Remember: You have free will. If anyone were to start insisting that I switch to, say, XP, I would have to insist that they bugger off. You can expect a fair amount of 'ooh, Os X is really fab!' in the Mac forum, for some reason :) Amiga had a GUI'd unixish system some 15 years before Apple released one. The big diff between Mac success and the Amiga's lack of? Commodore. On and on and on and on, and on and on and on goes John.
Post #23,159 by nking 1/4/02 5:07:41 PM Reply	I tend to forget that working for lawyers kind of drains the free will from one's system. :( "In order to completely solve a problem, you must make sure that the root of the problem is completely removed! If you leave the root, the problem will come back later to get you." - Norman King
Post #23,177 by tjsinclair 1/4/02 7:01:28 PM Reply	That's quite all right. Think nothing of it.... Tom Sinclair Speaker-to-Suits "You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs anymore." said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons." -- (Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Bomb)

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