10 reasons why I should purchase OS X.1

[blueravens]

Hi Everyone,

I've posted a message in regards to Classic Graphic/Web apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.. compatible to OS X.

I just like to know 10 reasons why I should purchase the new OS X.1.
If I beleive your reasons are worth the value of the purchase, I might get it and learn the new GUI. Otherwise, I'll be content with Mac OS 9.1 for now..

Happy New Year Everyone and Take Good Care of yourself.
Thanh.

[vic]

-Illustrator 10 is compatible with os 10 and 9... (and is much better that v.9)

-You can run all other apps in Classic or reboot in os 9 while still having X installed on your HD

-It doesn't crash (ok, maybe 1-2 times a year)

-You don't have to manually set memory allocations (not even when running os 9 apps in Classic)

-You can use the AMAZING OmniWeb web browser that underlines my spelling mistakes as i write this message.

-You can run ALL your apps at the same time (or as many as you need) at the same time without worrying about extension conflicts/crashes.

-It looks F*** amazing

-As i said before, if you need to do something critical you can, for now, only do in os 9, you can always just keep it and reboot in it to do your thing.

-It will give you a chance to learn UNIX/Linux and the command line

-It runs Quake 3 AMAZING (while you have a web server/mail-client/slash other app running at the same time in the background)

-You don't have to wait during installations (you can do other things/more installs than one at the same time)

-You can experiment and learn new scripting languages like php and Perl cuz now you can run them on your computer

-App development for os 9 is beginning to stop (I don't know what Quark is doing standing around a sinking ship!)

-The interface usability ROCKS (in the "column" file/folder view)

-You'll hate, then love, the dock

That's about it for now... Photoshop, GoLive, etc. are coming in 2002 anyway...

P.S.

some things may seem slower in X than 9, but that's what you get from technological advancements, the need for more power, it's inevitable. (or the soft dev will release updates that fix the problem [right OmniGroup? ])

[vanguard]

I'll chime in:

pre-emptive multitasking - In OS9 when one app misbehaves all the other apps are helpless without CPU time. In OSX the operating system controls who gets CPU time so a badly behaved app can not cause major problems.

posix compliant - This means that the world of unix apps will open up to OSX. Now one of the complaints against Apple, lack of apps, will be reduced.

[WoLF]

q3a sucks on my compo, so does UT (both in X)

they run better in 9. Partly because theyre 9 based apps.
and yes multitasking owns compared to 9

[vic]

did u update them? q3 runs natively in x after the update...

[simX]

I would like to caution you guys --- you STILL have to allocate memory to applications... EVEN when running them in the Classic environment!! Classic applications do not take advantage of the advanced memory allocation of OS X, and therefore have to be given memory manually like usual.

The way you allocate memory to Classic applications is the same -- you get info on it in the OS X Finder, click the popup menu and drag to "Memory", and set the minimum and preferred memory size for that application.

So this is still a drawback for Classic applications, but many applications have Carbon counterparts, so you can just download those versions. Then you won't have to deal with memory allocation.

[edX]

you haven't told us what kind of mac-chine you want to put osx on. while most recent machines support it rather favorably, it is possible that you own one where you might be better off to save the money right now and get a whole new mac with osx installed after you have waited a little longer. but assuming you have the right hardware, then osx is just nicer. it's different than 9, but once you adjust to the differences then it beats 9 hands down. and there are plenty of little haxies you can add to make it more like 9 so you don't go crazy from missing your habitual ways of doing certain things. if you use firewire anything, then osx will run it so much faster and smoother than 9 that you will never want to go back. of course practically never having to reboot except to update the system and NEVER getting a bomb are pretty good reasons as well. basically anything you can do in osx, you can do better in osx than in 9. basically.

[starfleetX]

Originally posted by vanguard
posix compliant - This means that the world of unix apps will open up to OSX. Now one of the complaints against Apple, lack of apps, will be reduced.

Mac OS X is not POSIX compliant. It's close, but nowhere fully compliant.