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Summary: Leave your OS 9 at the door
Review: After using the Public beta and Mac OS X 10.0 (the first public release), with this release I made the "permanent" switch. It's not perfect, but it gets 5 stars because Apple has done more than anyone could hope for considering this is only the 2nd retail release of this OS. The wonders of Mac OS X have only just begun...Eye-candy aside, this release is most importantly stable, much more feature complete (DVD Player and Disc Burner support), and it utilizes dual processors beautifully. I haven't locked up the machine once. Sure, you'll have to boot into Mac OS 9 once in a while and it won't be blazing fast on older systems. Office v.X is due shortly, and popular apps from Adobe, Macromedia, and others have already gotten the X treatment or development is underway. Third party hardware is still largely unsupported, but many inkjet printers connected via USB are supported in some capacity right ouf of the box. Drivers are trickling out from Epson, HP, and others. The good news is most OS 9 drivers work just fine in Classic and with Classic apps. Developers and technogeeks will enjoy the Unix underpinnings, bundled copy of Apache, Terminal access, SMB support, and robust networking capabilities... If you're still unsure, just do your homework. Mac news sites are chock full o' Mac OS X reader reports, troubleshooting tips, and capatability reports.
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Summary: Leave your OS 9 at the door
Review: After using the Public beta and Mac OS X 10.0 (the first public release), with this release I made the "permanent" switch. It's not perfect, but it gets 5 stars because Apple has done more than anyone could hope for considering this is only the 2nd retail release of this OS. The wonders of Mac OS X have only just begun... Eye-candy aside, this release is most importantly stable, much more feature complete (DVD Player and Disc Burner support), and it utilizes dual processors beautifully. I haven't locked up the machine once. Sure, you'll have to boot into Mac OS 9 once in a while and it won't be blazing fast on older systems. Office v.X is due shortly, and popular apps from Adobe, Macromedia, and others have already gotten the X treatment or development is underway. Third party hardware is still largely unsupported, but many inkjet printers connected via USB are supported in some capacity right ouf of the box. Drivers are trickling out from Epson, HP, and others. The good news is most OS 9 drivers work just fine in Classic and with Classic apps. Developers and technogeeks will enjoy the Unix underpinnings, bundled copy of Apache, Terminal access, SMB support, and robust networking capabilities... If you're still unsure, just do your homework. Mac news sites are chock full o' Mac OS X reader reports, troubleshooting tips, and capatability reports.
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Summary: be warned: peripheral support poor even in 10.1.2
Review: ALL BUT THE NEWEST RANGE OF PERIPHERALS ARE NOT SUPPORTED IN OS X. CANON feels it is as much Apple's responsibility as it is theirs. They are right in that the competitor's Windows XP can enable old or current printers to do basic printing. Tasks like ink monitoring may not work with drivers from Windows XP, but they can print, something Apple os X cannot do. SO WHY APPLE ARE YOU SLACKING! In all my years as a PC user, I have never found any peripherals problem when we upgraded our OS at the workplace. It is all about OS design, and thought from from the software designers.
My USB palm does not work, but Palm is fixing that in time.
My CDRW on firewire does not work on os X as well.
What kind of upgrade is this if we cannot use our current peripherals?
APPLE has to put in some kind of functionality with peripherals: if your OS is so complicated that it requires hardware manufacturers to rewrite all their drivers, it is going to take time and resource, something third parties will hesitate to allocate for 5% of the market.
APPLE should have thought of that. PLEASE PUT IN SOME GENERIC PRINTER DRIVERS FOR US.
Look, Microsoft thought of that. Learn some user friendliness from them.
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Summary: very little changed.
Review: Although this update has a DVD player, there's still a lot missing.
I cann't burn CDs with my external drive and there's still no external MIDI capability. The supposed faster performance hasn't been noticed by this customer. Sorry, Apple, you should have waited until you were ready for an update. X.1 is a waste of money.
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Summary: An ex-PC user's point of view.
Review: As a new Mac user, I already feel at home with OS X. The interface is very easy to use and straightforward, yet very powerful. Those of you already familiar with setting up multiple operating systems in a Windows environment know how unpleasant it can be. That's not the case here, in fact, it couldn't get any easier than this. Using the discs that come in this package, you will install both OS 9 and OS X. You can boot to either of them. No more messing around with partitioning, editing a BOOT file, etc etc. You just install the two OSes and select which one you want to boot from, and you can change that as often as you want to. In OS X, you can run OS 9 applications using classic-mode, which is automatic. If you run a non-OS X native application, classic starts up automatically and runs the app for you. Apple has made this very transparent and easy for people to use. ...
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Summary: The stability of Linux with the ease of a mac
Review: As tacky as this sounds, I've always said that Mac is for people who don't care how their computer works; Windows is for people who like to think they know how their computer works; and Linux is for people who actually can make it work. And while I've always loved the simplicity of running a Mac, I've opted for Linux the past few years because, well, once you've run two ssh windows, three ftp windows, Gimp, and about twenty different web pages without a single glich, you just can't go back! The downside being you have to practically live with a sys-admin to keep it upgraded and happy. Well, my sys-admin got tired of sharing and picked me up an iMac with OSX and it is soooo fabulous! A beautiful gui, easy to use, and the stability of Unix. Best yet, it plays well with my husband's herd of Linux computers upstairs, even letting me use my favorite programs and futz around with my beloved terminal windows when the whim strikes. Itunes is an absolute dream -- just put in the cd and it does *everything* else. And now that I have an Ipod too, I feel truly spoiled. Lack of software, drivers, and that sort of thing is a definite downside, and flipping back to 9 for my son's games can be a little slow, but hopefully that will be straightened out soon. Stable, attractive, fun and easy to use, I would recommend this to almost anyone. But maybe that's just the iPod talking ;-)
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Summary: The best OS ever!
Review: Combine the features and simplicity of running a macintosh, the power of UNIX, and the all of the workstation features and speed of Windows 2000, and you have OSX 10.1.
Apple finally sped it up to be faster than macOS 9, it no longer has the problems wich plagued the first release, and DVD is better than a real DVD player since you can drag the window around in realtime as it plays, plus use your applications on top of it, with no stuttering.
All multimedia applications run light years ahead of os9, Flash animations are silky smooth even when scaled, quicktime movies which stuttered under os9 now play back with no problem, and 3D games give a great deal of power back to the processor and deliver a much higher framerate at lower resolutions (American McGee's Alice, Tony Hawk, and Oni really benefit) -
It's highly G4 accelerated so that the largest tasks are offloaded to the G4's altivec chips and leave the greater portion of your processor available.
It's also superior to windowsXP in that they give all of the workstation features such as multi-processor support, printing over IP, terminal serving, superior task handling, superior memory handling.
The unix side is well rounded as it contains all of the major script languages, tools and basic serving apps.
Lastly a great feature I've found is, any existing USB devices you may have that do not work in OSX driven through the classic environment, so upgrades are minimal!
- My history : I am an early mac adopter from the 80's, and later had to learn the windows scene to keep a job. I've administrated unix for the past several years as well as many NT and 2000 boxes, and have done so using a macintosh as it had the most to offer GUI and stability wise (if I lost a motherboard or busted a pbook, I could transfer everything to another computer and it would work with no problems). I know the ins and outs of all of these machines. I've repaired , enhanced, optimized, and used them in nearly every project as a career, and OSX 10.1 finally delivers everything in a well priced package. ...
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Summary: OS X best ever
Review: Hands down the best OS right now! This update is crucial before you upgrade to Jaguar. It's simple, doesn't crash, easy to use even supports right clicking! buy it and never be disappointed!
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Summary: I used it at the mall once...
Review: I don't have this yet, But it made a good first impression on me. Maybie one of these days I'll buy a Mac.
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Summary: Great update to the Mac OS line
Review: I found 10.1 very stable and secure. Installation was a snap. Having worked with both mac and windows computers, I have to say this installation is the most easy of any OS upgrade I've done. My g3 400mhz iMac runs the OS very smoothly. Native applications load quickly, and classic apps load only marginally slower than they did in 9.1. Speech recognition software was a nice surprise, and seem sto work about 70% of the time (though I haven't finished practicing it). The interface is much different from 9, and the learning curve is slight, but the voyage is fun. A good upgrade.
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