"I am niot sure how the new Apple OS will shakle down in this world. Apparently it seems to be abit buggy, and only runs on some machines."
If you're talking about OS8 I agree.
From a tech's perspective, I (among others) find it buggy. On corporate corporate networks there seem to be many things that can trigger a crash. Luckily these are not random crashes. They are triggered by certain combinations of software, or network functions, so I at least have an explaination to the user when things happen.
Unfortunately, I have no solutions except to scold the user and remove OS8 from their machines and reinstall system 7.5.5 (Sys 7.6 is not yet approved for our environment.)
I have talked to an Apple Sales rep about the problem and he appears to be aggressively pressuring the software vendors to make OS8 compatible versions of their software. The biggest problem we have here is with ChemDraw. Being a pharmaceutical research company with over 2,000 installed Powermac 8500, 8600, 9600 and soon to be rolled out G3s, we would like to have the ability to run ChemDraw on our machines.
OS8 from a user's perspective is great! From a tech perspective, it's a good product, but it needs the bugs worked out. I bought it, but I'm waiting for some bug fix/upgrades before I permanently install it on my work machine.
Otherwise, it's terrific for my home machine.
-Bill_H |
