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Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday

Posted by pudge on from the and-i-forgot-a-present dept.

hotsauce writes "Mac OS X is one year old, and the Washington Post has a good summary. What do people think now that we're at the promised '12 o'clock'? What's in the year ahead?" I dunno what's in the year ahead, but as for today, I got a new TiBook and had a kernel panic while watching the This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD.

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  1. Extension Hell by fm6 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Apple also has users worried about OS X's reliance on file-name extensions (.doc, .rtf, .gif and so on) to identify file types.
    Now that's just plain sad. I've never been a big fan of the Mac, but there's no denything that the way MacOS avoids using extensions to identify files is a Good Idea. The whole concept of extensions is out of date, and leads to no end of problems. I can't believe Apple spent all that time working on OS X and managed to overlook such a basic feature.
    1. Re:Extension Hell by TRACK-YOUR-POSITION · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You should use file extensions because how the heck else is my computer supposed to know how to view this file I just downloaded from you ftp server?

  2. 1 year, 0 crashes. by Snuffub · · Score: 3, Insightful
    I dont pretend my experience is typical but since day one when i installed os X (actually a couple weeks prior to day 1... dont worry i then paid for it when it went on sale) I have had a grand total of 0 kernel panics on my beautiful little iMac(400MHz)

    that is quite an achievement for apple.

    The first beta releases of os x happily coincided with my growing interest in programming. and it was this fortuitous timing that saved me from switching over to linux (which i now use on a server) for me OS X is 100% perfect even with it's little quirks it's the perfect combination of digital media/ office production goodness mixed with an oh so tastey command line interface. i would still be satisfied with this OS if apple froze development and never released another version (well maybe 10.2 would be nice)

    So to end this random blabering i say kudo's to apple keep up the good work.

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    --aiee
  3. Re:Stability by shawnce · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So far my experience is vastly different on several different systems... I have had nothing but solid stability from my desktop systems, TiBook, and iBook.

    So what PowerBook do you have and what version of Mac OS X are you using? Did you update to the latest DVD player?