usability

[cellfish]

Well I use both XP and Mac OS X and my experience with Mac OS X so far has been ok but very far from good enough to replace Windows for me.

There's a speed and responsiveness issue with XP that you don't have with X. XP responds to all commands very quickly. If you want to open up a program, it comes up right after you click on it. With X, you have to wait through a few bounces no matter how fast your G4 is and how much RAM you have it. It's annoying. Also, with XP you know you can use all of your old programs unless they're unreasonably old. With X, Classic mode will probably work but it's incredibly slow.

I like X because it's great when you want to organize programs or get rid of them (dragging the icons will actually move the program to a new location whereas with Windows, good luck). However, I find Windows a lot easier to use. I know I'll get insulted for this but whatever, that's my opinion.

[boi]

Originally posted by cellfish


There's a speed and responsiveness issue with XP that you don't have with X. XP responds to all commands very quickly. If you want to open up a program, it comes up right after you click on it. With X, you have to wait through a few bounces no matter how fast your G4 is and how much RAM you have it. It's annoying. Also, with XP you know you can use all of your old programs unless they're unreasonably old. With X, Classic mode will probably work but it's incredibly slow.

everything opens pretty much instantly for me. for those things that don't (chimera, ichat) i just leave them open.
that said, i'd like to make the point that X is the greatest multitasking environment there is. i never imagined i could do the stuff i do, all at the same time. i've never gotten a buffer underrun. i know a lot of pc users who wished they could claim the same. i don't really have to worry about it at all. i just hit 'burn' and then i watch my DVD or download my stuff or upload my stuff or do it all at the same time. it doesn't matter.
re: the dock. the dock, to me, is like the taskbar, only better. it basically does everything the task bar does and more-- i don't see how people can prefer the taskbar in that sense. we can make as many dang start buttons as we please, we have the ability to hide applications in one fell swoop. and as for the "hide a billion zillion finder windows and then pick out which one you want"... you right click on the finder icon and pick your window. voila. minimize a billion My Computer / Windows Explorer windows and you've got a lot of little bitty slivers of an icon stuck in your taskbar.
no one mentioned Apple's GUI standards yet. this makes sure that not only X is intuitive, but every program made for X thereafter is just as intuitive (barring many pro apps).
okay, that's all from me. buhbye.

[fryke]

Originally posted by MacLuv
Actually fryke baby, as much as I appreciate your zest for Apple, the truth about NeXT is that it SuCKED. In fact, NeXT sucked so much, the only person who thought it was worth a crap was Gil Amelio, and look what happened to him.

Quite frankly, too, that is an opinion. I've used a black NeXT-Station that worked quite well. On a 68030 processor at 33 MHz, we had quite a good UNIX at that time. So count me in with Gil Amelio, and of course don't forget every software engineer I've ever met, also don't forget Steve Jobs and his crew.

Opinions are nice, but looking at the base of Mac OS X objectively (pun not, or yes, pun intended) will show you that it's actually worth all the money you pay for. Or what Gil/Apple paid for.

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