Doren,
There is no way I would ever go back to OS 9. Back a year and a half ago when I had to use it because OS X versions weren't available, I just hated making the switch back to 9, either booting into it or firing-up classic.
Why?
I detested fooling around with memory allocation and then having any application crash the entire system. Drove me nuts.
Nowadays, I may restart the system occasionally, particularly after installing new or update software. Once in a while, if I feel the system is sluggish, I'll restart it to get the startup routines to clean up the drive.
The ability to fire-up a mind-boggling number of programs is just plain indispensable.
I do admit the Finder can still use more work. But, on the other hand, Expose' is fantastic.
I don't know if you've run across them yet, but there several very nice software packages in Panther. FontBook is quite handy; ligatures built into OSX are downright beautiful; ColorSync has some very useful functionality now; Rendezvous is amazing for printer networking - totally hands free; FileVault (I haven't used this yet); and, I understand the Audio is of highest quality and includes all MIDI functionality. |
