[Swordmaker]

And my last Mac OS (I "upgraded" to - I think - OS-X) was kinda buggy and ran slow on my Performa 6400CD. I'm sure a lot's changed since.

You certainly did not upgrade your Performa 6400CD to OS X... it won't run on that computer. Minimum requirement for OS X is a G3 process running at least 300MHz with 256Megs of RAM.

I suspect you upgraded to Mac OS 8.0, which was buggy until 8.1 was released a couple of months later (for free). OS8.5 was also buggy until the release of OS 8.6 just a month later (also free). OSs 7.6, 8.6, and 9.2 were the most stable of the "classic" Mac operating systems until the release of OS X.

By the way, can you name the "bells and whistles" you say overweight the substance of the Mac environment?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You are probably right about the operating system. I just remember being disappointed.

As to bells and whistles, I was talking about the marketing approach, which seems aimed at spinster school marms and interior decorators more than CIOs. May be it's just that those are the waters I fish in.