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Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review

Posted by timothy on from the letters-with-numbers dept.

Joystickit writes: "John Siracusa over at Arstechnica has posted his review of OS X 10.1. He comes to the conclusion that 10.1 is much improved but still leaves much to be desired. It is an excellent read. He always seems to have the most in-depth reviews. Check it out." John's earlier OS X reviews are excellent as well; seeing what Apple does right and wrong is informative reading no matter what OS you prefer.

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  1. John Siracusa is the man by kilgore_47 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    John Siracusa writes solid reviews. I enjoyed this, as well as his other arstechnica OS X articles.

    I like his "hands on" approach to testing OS K's handling of nice: compile main(){for(;;);} and run it!

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  2. Eye Candy by 1nt3lx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Mac OS X is eye candy. Pure eye candy.
    10.1 is much improved. The speed improvment
    is tremendous.

    There are few things that are
    annoying like not being able to get rid of the
    menu bar at the top of the screen, but that puts the Mac is Mac OS.

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  3. Re:OS X seems to be Unix done right... by DavidJA · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Ease of use people. That's what it's all about. Apple has always had it, Microsoft keeps trying and missing, and Linux is getting there via comapnies like Mandrake and desktops like KDE

    Not wanting to start a flame war but...

    If I want to eject my music CD from the CDROM I should be able to press the button labeled EJECT and have it pop out, not have to drag it to the trash! - Ease of use people..

    But seriously, ease of use is a matter of perception. On I MAC I find the concept of every app having each window as a floating MDI child without any real parent object frustrating! For example. If I have Mac IE open with 5 windows, to get to the 5th window (which is hidden behind quark) I have to click on the apple menu to activate IE, then minimise 4 windows before I can get to the 5th. On a PC, the 5th window is 1 click on the task bar away!

    Point being, I think Microsoft took the MacOS idea and put their own design work behind it, the UI is not better then MacOS, its not worse, it's just different.

  4. Re:Good show BSD by itomato · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Good show to the BSD crowd? Do you mean the Free/Net/Open BSD crowd?

    How much do you really think they had to do with OS X?


  5. Re:Apple dare by jchristopher · · Score: 2, Flamebait
    Apple knows, and knows very well, that they are a hardware company. Everyone reading this knows they are a hardware company. My grandma knows they are a hardware company.

    OS X for Windows --> no more mac hardware sales --> no more Apple. Pretty obvious.

    Unfortunately, their hardware ISN'T crap: on the contrary, it's extravagent, overbuilt, and overpriced. Is it really worth an extra $600 to have a door that opens to put memory in? Of course not.

    No one really cares about that kind of stuff - they just want MacOS, and right now, it only runs on Apple hardware.

  6. Re:Good to see... by be-fan · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Oh, and another thing. (feeble attempt to get back on topic) My iBook and my friend's PBG4 feel just about the same under OS 10.1 with 384 MB of RAM each. Both very, very usable.
    >>>>
    You do realize how incredibly pathetic it is that you've got a fast G3 processor and gobs of RAM, yet your OS is only "very, very usable."

    Yes, trolling, I know. But only for my crusade against bloated system software...

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