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People like this guy to try to make money off disgruntled Mac owners

I realize Apple's continually raising the bar makes it hard for Still runs all your old programs (and new ones) with the beauty and You're running a much slicker, more powerful, memory-protected OS that

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That iMac you picked up two long years ago? Buy the new OS andД¬ram it full of RAM. Makes every Mac bought in the last few years much more valuable. Providing a kick-ass OS early next year that, at a single stroke, I suspect what this fellow is upset about is that Apple is Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth. 'The only drawback is that programs will run a few percent slower.' Work if the programmer was properly careful and followed Apple's Last five years will surely work, and in fact almost any program will Migrated its entire userbase from one CPU family to another eight But then, we'd expect that from the company that 'Apple's compatibility is nothing short of miraculous and it's onlyДЄ few percent slower. 'Holy shit! Unix!! Apps written for the Mac run in frickin' UNIX!

Written for a completely different operating system and toolbox to run 'Apple has worked some incredible engineering magic to get programs Leading me to wonder how compatible the 'classic' mode even is.

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Mac OS 8.6 and earlier are not even supported in emulation, emulation) mode and watch your existing Mac apps run Hard disk into two volumes and dual boot, or you can run Mac OS 9 in 'Backward compatibility? Well, you can split your I particularly enjoyed this part of the rant: Just today I was shocked at the amount of memory I overheard a salesperson recommending to a likely home user, on the basis that in a year any less would be 'useless', but it reminds me of how every day I see four seater metal boxes drive past with three seats empty. So while I respect the author's points (and I believe his observations are accurate), they are not the whole picture. (my analogy powers falter.) and it all does a job and it ain't ever going to be 'small'. Small can be elegant and lightweight, but MOSX is a three headed dragon (Classic/Cabon/Cocoa) in a big dress (Aqua) with a pair of jet skis (QuickTime, OpenGL) sitting on a tank (BSD) with custom tracks (Mach). Sure they're trying to sell more hardware with resource hungry animated gui's, which are, ehm, 'non essential', but we'll use that power for real work anyway. Today I had a play with iMovie on a cube, and it was sweet. but ever since QuickTime came out, that little 3 fps video in a 160x120 box has been just dying to grow up. Now I don't want to get into a war about which platform has the best price/power/stability/availability etc etc. which also includes the apps - like iMovie and Maya. Apple and MSFT have specifically rewritten their new Operating Systems to target the problems that have been leveled at them