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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (39093)	1/16/2004 4:55:04 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 213182

I agree with just about everything you say. Panther is more stable. Memory is way way better. Multitasking. Multiprocessor. I was very excited about Expose but I've found that Windowshade X is better for me. So isn't it a surprise that more people have NOT upgraded? There has to be a reason and I think that it's speed and the interface. I have two friends that have upgraded to X this month. Both designers. One bought a G5 (up from an 8600/200) the other just upgraded his Titanium (?) or something similar. Both hate the Dock. (I'm testing Dragstrip right now. So far I think it's everything the dock should be.) It's been 3 years. When will Apple get the message? My other pal has a 1 or 1 1/2 year old Quicksilver, his first computer. He almost never uses 9 because he knows it's dead but he does use it occasionally for certain software that he doesn't have on X. He is amazed at how nimble OS9 is. Like I said I've crossed over but it took Panther to get me to go all the way. And I've had X installed since 10.0. I like X. But with a good interface I'd LOVE X.

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (39093)	1/16/2004 12:36:18 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Stay away from FileVault. Not such a good implementation. Could loose data. And there are bugs in the early version of Panther. HerbVic

To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (39093)	1/16/2004 6:03:35 PM
From: Dave	Respond to of 213182

I'm with you, Jeff. I wouldn't go back to Classic if you paid me. Which you wouldn't. In fact, I just deleted almost all of my Classic apps, to make room on my hard disk. I'll never run them again. I haven't booted Classic in at least a year, and haven't even run a Classic app on X in months. Besides the OS X features you mentioned (FontBook, ColorSync, text ligatures, ColorSync, Rendezvous, FileVault, Core MIDI, Core Audio, dynamic memory partitions, separate protected memory spaces, and Exposé), there are other pieces of software in OS X that I couldn't do without, that I used to have to buy, install, and maintain third-party apps to do. These include Address Book (I don't use Palm Desktop any more), Mail (used to pay for Eudora Pro), iCal (threw away Meeting Maker), iSync, iPhoto (used to have to use the crappy software that came with my camera), TextEdit (reads and writes most Word documents), XCode (don't use CodeWarrior any more), the Special Characters panel (I use this all the time), iChat AV, . And now Garage Band! I can finally paying hundreds every couple of years to upgrade Digital Performer. Garage Band alone will save me about 4x the cost of doing regular updates to the OS. And then there are all those apps that I use all the time that are only available for Mac OS X, like LiveType, Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack, Omni Graffle, Omni Outliner, Omni Dictionary (I use this every day), iStopMotion, and on and on. The nay-sayers can stick to their Wintel boxes, Dell MP3 players, and tens-of-thousands-strong virus corncucopia. I'm very happy living with X. Dave