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To: Doren who wrote (39097)	1/17/2004 12:59:00 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213182

>>Really if OSX wasn't slow and the interface wasn't dinged up I would have expected everyone with a Mac that could use OSX would use OSX by now. Why not? Only software like Quark would hold them back.<< Doren - Many Mac users are no different from many Windows users in their desire to avoid change. But for Mac users, upgrading from OS 9 to X means having to buy all new software. That's a very big expense, in addition to the change in the interface. Do you think Apple made OS X slower because they didn't care? The fact is that any multi-threaded operating system is going to be slower, simply because there are more processes running at any given moment. Panther is significantly faster than Jaguar, which was faster than the first version of OS X. Apple is making it faster as best they can. Finally, Mac users keep their computers longer than Windows users, on average. So of the installed base of users, more of them have systems that aren't even capable of running the latest version of the OS. - Allen - Allen

To: Doren who wrote (39097)	1/17/2004 1:02:27 AM
From: Cogito	Respond to of 213182

>>Really if OSX wasn't slow and the interface wasn't dinged up I would have expected everyone with a Mac that could use OSX would use OSX by now. Why not? Only software like Quark would hold them back.<< Doren - Many Mac users are no different from many Windows users in their desire to avoid change. But for Mac users, upgrading from OS 9 to X means having to buy all new software. That's a very big expense, in addition to the change in the interface. Do you think Apple made OS X slower because they didn't care? The fact is that any multi-threaded operating system is going to be slower, simply because there are more processes running at any given moment. Panther is significantly faster than Jaguar, which was faster than the first version of OS X. Apple is making it faster as best they can. Finally, Mac users keep their computers longer than Windows users, on average. So of the installed base of users, more of them have systems that aren't even capable of running the latest version of the OS. - Allen