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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. A year of ups and downs... by PrimeWaveZ · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I got my OS X CD in the mail that morning and totally eliminated OS 9 from my machine. That lasted for about 96 hours, when I reformatted the hard drive with partitions for OS 9, OS X, and Documents and other files.

    When OS X 10.1 was released, OS X became my primary operating system. As Office v.X and Golive 6 were released, I have found myself starting Classic only to use Photoshop and a 15 year old machine language emulator I need for my computer science class. I have to boot into OS 9 only to sync my Palm m500 with AvantGo.

    Once Photoshop 7 is released for OS X and I finish my version of the SC Emulator (which will be open sourced after I get credit for it), I won't have to use Classic at all. And once AvantGo gets off its ass with a version of their conduit for OS X, OS 9 is history!

    In that time, I also got dumped by my fiancee and proceeded to get a hot girlfriend who happens to be a complete geek and helps me debug my C++ code in her spare time. Looks like almost everything is looking up!

  2. Re:Extension Hell by StorminNorman · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've spoken to an Apple employee about this, and apparently the problem with file extentions is due to a Mexican standoff between the NeXT developers in apple (pro file extentions) and the Mac OS developers (anti file extentions).

    Unfortunately, it seems the NeXT guys are winning, while Mac OS X usability suffers as a result (file extentions are the one major thing that annoys me about Mac OS X).

    Other than this stupid design flaw, Mac OS X has been great for me ever since I installed Mac OS 10.1 on my iBook (Dual USB) last year.

    --
    life is a canvas/and the paint is hope and promise/the world is ours/no one can ever take it from us.
  3. Happy Birthday OSX by nwanua · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Nothing too important here, just putting my thoughts into bytes:

    Last April, I was absolutely thrilled that I could finally use a mac which didn't crash when I moved the mouse too fast.

    Initially I was upset that the look of OSX departed from NEXTSTEP, but as the year wore on, I've grown to really love it. There are three things I most like about OSX (apart from the BSD thingie :->

    1. no need to have icons on the desktop (ick!)
    2. Mail.app
    3. and the browser-finder (cruising around my HDD in OS9 is *such* a regression that for that reason alone I avoid going into it). Heck when an app sez it needs classic, I decide I don't need that app.

    People always knock OSX for its lack of drivers and applications... as if it's Apple's responsibility to write drivers for HPs printers. Granted, the lack of drivers hampers adoption and user happiness, but it's a sort of chicken-and-egg question. From the looks of things new drivers are coming on board... YMMV.

    Here's to many more years of OSX... it brought me back from my 8-year hiatus from Apple, and equipped with a TiBook, I don't want to ever leave again :-)

    Nwanua