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I have been Macified. After not owning a Macintosh for more than 12 years I finally decided that the undeniable coolness and beauty of the hardware and particularly of OS X meant that it was time to get religion! The beast, which arrived a couple of weeks ago, is a Power Mac G5 with dual 2-GHz processors and 1.5G bytes of RAM running OS X Tiger. What a gorgeous piece of engineering! It is an elegant design even under the hood: When you need to take off the side to, for example, add extra RAM, one latch frees the panel....

Whether you believe the claims at some rumor sites that Tiger has gone Golden Master or not, it's a sure thing that the publicity engines will be turned up real high shortly in advance of its release. There will be rolling out parties and other events at Apple dealers, and lots of early experiences to chew over. At same time, you might wonder why all the fuss about a computer operating system. Isn't Panther good enough? Actually, I still know folks who haven't migrated beyond Jaguar, or even Mac OS 9. They do not regard an OS as a life-altering...