[quidnunc]

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One of the most interesting responses came from Charles Burt, who said that as a longtime Mac user, he has not been happy with the evolution of OS X . "Since the advent of OS X for the Mac, much of the 'beauty and grace,' if you will, that was the essence of Macintosh computers is gone. Yes, they are still beautiful to look at, and yes, they are very fast. But with each successive OS update ... the platforms become less stable (especially Tiger), and I'm sorry to say, more like a PC Windows machine. I used to be Steve Jobs' best salesman. All things being equal, I would tell anyone who was in the market for a new computer to spend a little more and get the best computer available ... a Mac. I no longer make that recommendation. I still work on them every day, all day. But the fun in my job has nothing whatsoever to do with the computer I use any longer. And that makes me a bit sad, to be honest."

What the devil is this person nattering on about?

Is he trying to run Tiger on a 300MHz G3 or something?

I started with Jaguar on my G5 and Panther was more stable than Jaguar and Tiger is more stable than Panther.

[Swordmaker]

What the devil is this person nattering on about?

I think it is another PC user pretending to be a Mac user... the Steve Jobs crack is a dead give-away...

[CFC__VRWC]

I've had my Mac Mini for almost a year and a half, and have yet to crash the OS (Tiger). I've occasionally had applications bomb, but never the OS.

[avg_freeper]

After upgrading a 500Mhz G4 from OS9 to OS X 10.2 I could say the following:

OS 9 - very stable and fast provided you ran regular maintenance procedures and set the virtual memory correctly for most apps. Finder was blazingly fast compared to any OS X finder even on todays hardware. Apple's and oranges, I know, finder does a lot more rendering now and the whole architecture is different.

OS X free demonstration disk - Less stable apps, finder much slower (window movement, resizing, app switching). Crashing app doesn't bring down finder and other apps. Very nice. I still used 9 for most everything.

OS 10.1 - Apps more stable, finder still fairly slow. Using OS 9 50% of the time.

OS 10.2 - Finder speeding up, still quite a bit slower than OS 9 but improvements to OS interface help with this. Purchased OS X equivalents of most of my software now. xWindows a definite plus using that a lot with vi,grep,awk,sed like on a regular 'nix. Also getting better at Apple scripting with the new Apple script for xTools. Over all productivity increase from OS 9 days. Using OS X almost all of the time now.

Now I have a G5 iMac with OS 10.4 and the speed of the finder is approaching that of OS 9. User switching was the biggest benefit allowing my wife and I to just switch and not shut down what we were doing.