Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In

hype7 writes "The reviews on Apple's new Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" are starting to come through. The New York Times (free reg required) heaps on the praise: 'Mac OS X 10.2 is the best-looking, least-intrusive and most thoughtfully designed operating system walking the earth today.' MacCentral is positive: 'From what I've seen Jaguar is leaps and bounds ahead of Mac OS X 10.1 in both speed and functionality.' MacWorld has also chimed in: 'for most users, there are a lot of important improvements in this upgrade: performance boosts, improved printing, and interface enhancements will be immediate benefits. And over time, Mac OS X 10.2's new technologies (including Quartz Extreme and Rendezvous) will make the update even more valuable.'"

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Re:Here's an idea...

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you think Steve is so desperate to phase out os 9? Because OS X, built on Mac, is extraordinarily portable while os 9 is tied to the PPC platform. As long as key user groups (desktop publishing for example) continue to use classic for important tasks, the mac must stay on PPC. But I wouldn't count on it going to x86. That's not the way Apple works. They'd rather move to the latest and greatest -- Itanium, McKinley, Hammer, that sort of thing.

Someone please convince me

[AssFace]

I am writing software for the PC crowd, and will eventually need to do so for a Mac.
I have hated Macs for a long time - I have used them and never could get over huge annoying factors.
But now that they got rid of their OS which was awful (for what I needed), and are now OpenBSD, I'm more likely to switch.

I have seen it, and it is really just window dressing as far as I'm concerned.
I have heard that the command line stuff is slower now...

Anyway - I'd love for someone to sell me on why I should use this.
Things I care about are price to performance ratio. Ease of programming (tools available - need mySQL, php, Perl, Java, C/C++, etc). Cost of maintenance (software and hardware upgrades), etc etc.

I have been over this before in the past on my own, and Mac always falls up short.
The only thing that is slightly swaying me towards one now is that I need one to develop on to expand the potential client base available to my software.

Make it easier on me and give me some legitimate reasons that this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Otherwise, I'm perfectly happy with my WinXP and Mandrake boxes that I have right now. Cheap, never crash, fast, and easy to use.