Article:		Panther Delights
Subject:		not much incentive to switch
Date:		2003-12-13 14:07:04
From:		anonymous2
If these are the top 10 things about Panther, what's the point. "Friendlier" buttons because they have round corners? A delay is no longer measured in hours? They've brought back a menu feature from Mac OS 9? It's hard to get excited about any of this. We still run OS 9 when we can, mostly because it's very stable and the users know how it works. For the last 6 months I've run X.2.8 on my desktop because there are a few apps that require it, but it's far less usable than KDE or Windows, never mind OS9 -- HUGE graphics that are no long iconic, Desktop cluttered, big problems with AppleShare volumes. And to be honest, the OSX desktop uptime is NOT better than OS9, at least in our shop. I've been a big fan since my fat Mac, and some of the apps in OS X are nice and innovative, but I keep thinking: the emporer has no clothes. I just don't see what the big deal is. Frankly, I would bet on linux desktop before I would buy any more Macs.

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• not much incentive to switch
  2003-12-20 09:35:22  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  shops that are still using OS 9 must have good reasons for doing so...probably a cash flow problem, or such like (that gets in the way of upgrading hardware and software)
  
  but asserting that it is because of os 9's "greater stability" indicates that the shop is a coelacanth (a living fossil) whose main job is to put out a biweekly newsletter or something - stable when all you run is Office 98
  
  then again, publishing may not be their strong suit, if their spokesperson is suggesting the "emporer" has no clothes.
  
  
• not much incentive to switch
  2004-01-05 10:19:41  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  here are some reasons to still run 9:
  
  1. it works (particularly AppleShare over TCP/IP). My x.2.8 client is always messing up (loses files), and has issues with permissions on both Netatalk and AppleShare IP servers.
  
  2. The apps we need still run on the OS 9 clients, including Office 98!
  
  3. Cash is an issue. Send me your credit card, and I'll be glad to buy new hardware, productivity apps, and backup server.
  
  4. In my experience, with our configuration, OS9 is a far more stable desktop OS. It typically runs more than a month without reboot in our environment. Unlike my linux systems, where, fro example redhat up2date can be run, and then the process hup'ed to avoid a reboot, there seems to be a weekly patch or security update requiring a reboot. And when I run X.2.8 on a laptop, (titanium) we really seem to have trouble (wake from sleep, etc.)
  
  5. I think the MacOS finder, is still more intuitive. In my opinion, the X finder takes some steps back -- I would rather use KDE or windows. Eg., There is no need for the very large 3D graphical representations of folders and docs in X, as this takes excessive screen real-estate.
  
  6. We are prisoners of our own experience, dating back to beta-test Lisa. What tangible benefits do we get by re-wiring all our neurons?
• not much incentive to switch
  2003-12-23 00:34:50  juanjose [Reply | View]
  
  
  hee hee hee...

• not much incentive to switch
  2003-12-15 06:01:22  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Fool! These are NOT the top 10 things about panther. The write made a point of saying that at least twice. Try reading the article.