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Customer Reviews of Mac OS X 10.1

Well, MacOS X, is by far the most complete and beautifully engineered OS out there (at least on a commercial basis). It is based on NeXT (using the Mach ker.nel) and BSD -- a feature which offers a lot to someone coming from a UNIX platform -- and clearly the best GUI out there.

Some may argue that it is not as polished as it could, but, hey, what is? Windows or Linux? Besides, Apple is releasing free *until now* revisions for download every couple of months and it has improved a lot since 10.0. (the current version at the time of writing is 10.1.2). Release 10.2 is rumoured to have great new features old Mac users requested as well as more language packs and a speedier Quartz. (the graphics engine)

I recommend this to anyone open-minded enough to leave windows behind him/her.

New 10.1.3 version works like a champ on my G3
When OS X initially debuted last year I could see how powerful and beautiful this OS was eventually going to be. However, I was dismayed at its lack of speed and responsiveness. Sure, I loved getting at the "guts" of the system with the Terminal Window and the open sourced nature of the UNIX environment, but it didn't outweigh the long waits and stutters as I moved though the GUI.

Fortunately, this all changed with the release of 10.1.2 and now the current 10.1.3 upgrade. The OS is now ready for primetime.

I have installed it on a PowerBook 500MHz G3 with no problems and use it as my everyday workhorse.

The beauty of this OS is this: it is as powerful as you want it to be and as simple as you would want an OS to be. As GUIs go, Mac OS X is gorgeous. It's rich Quartz image engine renders a beautiful palette and surprising crisp desktop. I've even been able to bring back the often missed Apple menu with a great shareware program called FruitMenu.

And that is just the beginning. With its UNIX underpinnings, this OS is stable, stable, stable. Unlike OS 9, which I had to reboot every morning to insure the system's stability, I don't reboot the computer for days or weeks at a time. Using the terminal window gets you instant access to your system and allows eggheads like me the full accessibility we've become used to with Linux, Solaris and other UNIX flavors.

Now with PhotoShop 7 on the horizon and the release of MicroSoft Office and Macromedia Freehand, the idea of booting back into OS 9 is absurd.

This OS is a keeper.

The best OS ever!
Combine the features and simplicity of running a macintosh, the power of UNIX, and the all of the workstation features and speed of Windows 2000, and you have OSX 10.1.
Apple finally sped it up to be faster than macOS 9, it no longer has the problems wich plagued the first release, and DVD is better than a real DVD player since you can drag the window around in realtime as it plays, plus use your applications on top of it, with no stuttering.
All multimedia applications run light years ahead of os9, Flash animations are silky smooth even when scaled, quicktime movies which stuttered under os9 now play back with no problem, and 3D games give a great deal of power back to the processor and deliver a much higher framerate at lower resolutions (American McGee's Alice, Tony Hawk, and Oni really benefit) -
It's highly G4 accelerated so that the largest tasks are offloaded to the G4's altivec chips and leave the greater portion of your processor available.
It's also superior to windowsXP in that they give all of the workstation features such as multi-processor support, printing over IP, terminal serving, superior task handling, superior memory handling.
The unix side is well rounded as it contains all of the major script languages, tools and basic serving apps.
Lastly a great feature I've found is, any existing USB devices you may have that do not work in OSX driven through the classic environment, so upgrades are minimal!
- My history : I am an early mac adopter from the 80's, and later had to learn the windows scene to keep a job. I've administrated unix for the past several years as well as many NT and 2000 boxes, and have done so using a macintosh as it had the most to offer GUI and stability wise (if I lost a motherboard or busted a pbook, I could transfer everything to another computer and it would work with no problems). I know the ins and outs of all of these machines. I've repaired , enhanced, optimized, and used them in nearly every project as a career, and OSX 10.1 finally delivers everything in a well priced package. ...