> takes several minutes booting up; theyre not designed to be turned
on and off all the time. By contrast the consumer wants (and will get in windows) `instant on'
Mac users don't get 'instant on' or off. (I don't suppoose winodws users either?) Don't know how the Next box works, but my SGI Indy boots up or down about the same speed as most system 7 Macs.
UNIX systems do have more problems when someone pulls the plug, but I suppose that some of the more severe problems could be minimized at some expense of system speed.
One objectionable thing about UNIX is problems in recovering lost/trashed (rm'ed) files; does Nextstep take more kindly to these files?
> takes a lot of unix hacking one way or another. .... took 2 weeks, a lot of phone calles.... I cant imagine a general consumer manging his system .....you'd have to be a computer consutlant to figure out the [network] setup
The beauty of the Mac system is that setup is so easy, and by the time you're at the point that you need to start changing configuration, you've had a bit of time to learn it. Hopefully, Apple will recognize that this is one of their advantages and build it into Nextstep/Rhapsody/whatever and ship the software in some usable form.
> .... everything is postscript oriented.... But if youre a consumer with HP Deskjet or ... they dont supply drivers!
I guess Apple will have to convince HP etal to come out with new drivers and/or ensure that current drivers will be compatable.
>...everything is SCSI oriented. The EIDE hard disks,.......Oh and the Iomega Jaz drivers didnt work and destroyed a Jaz...And yes, Nexstep can recognise windows disks and files. But guess what? Even in the Sept 96 release they only allow the old win 3.11 file names (<8 characters etc) as if we dont all use win95 or NT by ow. Result: useless.
> Now NeXTStep didnt address these kind of flaws in 2 years that I used them 1995--1996. They're going to need a cmplete culture change and wakeup call from Apple if they are going to be ready for consumer market, and a lot of resources to turn a unix product into something useable for the consumer. I think Apple can pull it off but dont be fooled by cool demos.....
You're right, there is a lot of work for Apple.
But Apple has resources, a strong following,
probably can convince some manufacturers to come out with Rhapsody- friendly drivers (heck, when I get a HP product, it comes with one Mac disk and a zillion PC disks for DOS, Win3.1, Win95, WinNT drivers...it's worth it to buy the thing just for the disks! :-))
etc etc:
Apple just has to be careful not to lose sight of itself and implement the change to Next right or...its cooked. |
