pingsmoth
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I've been using X since it came out, and I'm wondering how people think of it. I was extremely excited to see Apple finally make it into the realm of true preemptive multitasking, which they seem to have pulled off nicely, and other things that made X such a cool new OS. Well, it's here, and my reactions have been mixed...
I'm running it on an indigo iMac (400MHz) with 384 Megs of RAM. The most noticeable difference between X and 9.1 is the speed, and my, how X is sluggish. It languishes on small tasks like moving an icon or opening a window. The Dock is very responsive, but the Genie effect is nothing more than a gimmick. It's very ackward to get used to, not being a UNIX user and all. Does it show promise? You bet. Does it have bugs? Absolutely. I miss the little things that made all previous OSes so special, like folder tabs, overriding snap-to-grid by holding the command key, typing the name of an icon and having it be automatically selected in list view, and of how I miss the application switcher in the top right corner. Also, the poor utilization of screen real estate (huge menu sizes, huge glowing buttons) just perplexes me. Running OmniWeb was a nifty experience but going back to Netscape in Classic mode for *actual* web-surfing was an incredible breath of fresh air.
Other things are nice, and I'm not going back to anything else because this is obviously the future for the Mac. It's a good OS but it *needs* to be tweaked for speed. I'd hate to run it on the base machine (original iMac 233). Do I like it? Yes. My final verdict is just what it should be: Right now it's good for early adopters. In the coming months it's going to vindicate our faith in the Mac for so many years now.
I'm running it on an indigo iMac (400MHz) with 384 Megs of RAM. The most noticeable difference between X and 9.1 is the speed, and my, how X is sluggish. It languishes on small tasks like moving an icon or opening a window. The Dock is very responsive, but the Genie effect is nothing more than a gimmick. It's very ackward to get used to, not being a UNIX user and all. Does it show promise? You bet. Does it have bugs? Absolutely. I miss the little things that made all previous OSes so special, like folder tabs, overriding snap-to-grid by holding the command key, typing the name of an icon and having it be automatically selected in list view, and of how I miss the application switcher in the top right corner. Also, the poor utilization of screen real estate (huge menu sizes, huge glowing buttons) just perplexes me. Running OmniWeb was a nifty experience but going back to Netscape in Classic mode for *actual* web-surfing was an incredible breath of fresh air.
Other things are nice, and I'm not going back to anything else because this is obviously the future for the Mac. It's a good OS but it *needs* to be tweaked for speed. I'd hate to run it on the base machine (original iMac 233). Do I like it? Yes. My final verdict is just what it should be: Right now it's good for early adopters. In the coming months it's going to vindicate our faith in the Mac for so many years now.
. How could such a primitive OS be soo great. Now with OSX I am kinda looking back at the good old days... I like OSX but it's gunna take awhile to flush memories...