[Swordmaker]

Happy Birthday OS X!

Five years old!

PING!

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[goldstategop]

Its older than Windows XP. At least two years older. But its hands down the better of the two operating systems. And hopefully Apple will make the next version, Leopard, even better.

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[coconutt2000]

I owned the public beta.

It was cool.

[Coyoteman]

I still use OS 9.2 unless I absolutely have to use OSX.

Why?

Because they changed where everything is! That's stupid. Who cares what the system does behind the scenes, but when they change the way I have to work, and make me relearn how to do the simplest things, its useless.

First time I used OSX I tried to network the new computer to the old ones. After five minutes I gave up and booted OS 9.2. It was a year before I even looked at OSX again. And things haven't gotten much better.

/rant

[antiRepublicrat]

And in opposition to XP, which just seems to get slower, check out the 10 things Apple did to make OS X faster.

[Dinsdale]

To be fair OSX was'nt so much born as blended.

A dash of BSD, a pinch of MACH and a bucket of NextOS.

It was good to see Apple finally ship a decent OS. OS9 was sub windows 3.0.

[BradyLS]

I don't much about computers or networks. I'm just damn glad that Apple made the radical switch to OS X. There is a bit of a learning curve if you are a dyed-in-the-wool Classic (OS 9 and earlier) user. What I like best about it is that if an app freezes or crashes, it doesn't take the whole works with it. The computer keeps going so you can 'Force Quit' the troublesome application.

That may me no big deal when you're a single user. But as the guy who supports an office of macs, life is easier when the problem can be fixed while the computer is still up and running than when it ain't. I always hated being the troubleshooter for a careless user and have to pray through the startup that the OS wasn't also bolloxed when the app crashed.

[Leonard210]

Thanks Swordmaker, and Happy BDay OS X. I don't consider myself a holdout as much as a late adapter. In a production environment, it makes no sense to be the first on the block with anything. But as systems and applications stabilize, it is just as silly to hesitate taking advantage of the improvements. And OS X has dozens of improvements for every OS 9 feature that it replaced. I have little quirky issues with some of OS X, but it is light years ahead of 9.

I have not booted into 9 in over a year and a half, but I don't hesitate to recommend the system where appropriate. I just got done updating 9 and installing a drive in a Pismo PowerBook (400 GHz G3). The client had no reason to update to X. All his apps were minimal use with PageMaker being the primary work app. So we updated the OS, popped in a 40 GB drive and he'll be good for years.

And on my system? I'll never go back to OS 9. X is completely stable. No system crashes, applications don't take down the OS, no "Out of Memory" issues, I never have to restart, and still no major security issues. Happy Birthday OS X and I'm sure there will be many more.