Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]
Customer Review: Great update to the Mac OS line
Summary: 4 Stars
I found 10.1 very stable and secure. Installation was a snap. Having worked with both mac and windows computers, I have to say this installation is the most easy of any OS upgrade I've done. My g3 400mhz iMac runs the OS very smoothly. Native applications load quickly, and classic apps load only marginally slower than they did in 9.1. Speech recognition software was a nice surprise, and seem sto work about 70% of the time (though I haven't finished practicing it). The interface is much different from 9, and the learning curve is slight, but the voyage is fun. A good upgrade.Customer Review: Apple Gives Up, Goes UNIX
Summary: 5 Stars
The title is correct--OS X is simply UNIX. Yet, it's Apple-flavored UNIX, and that makes all the difference. Unlike Linux or other flavors of UNIX, OS X is easy to use, easy to add hardware that is instantly recognized, and easy to modify. You don't have to ever enter the shell if you don't want to, but just because you don't want to doesn't mean that software developers don't want to, and this is much more powerful than any previous Apple operating software.In fact, if you like old Apple OSs, there's still OS 9 around, which OS X will run in an emulation mode (that's right, you get two OSs in one). And, if you really are strange, you can buy Virtual PC and run Windows in emulation mode here, too--AT THE SAME TIME. Now, that's a powerful OS.
Kudos to Apple for doing a total rewrite of their OS code, rather than simply continuing bloatware that had long become full of spaghetti-code inconsistencies.
Customer Review: BIG improvement and some great features!!
Summary: 5 Stars
WOW! Applications are interacting much more smoothly, and my computer is definately faster. Even my internet has improved! I had also, in the past, been unable to upload JPEG's to the internet with Appleworks, and now it's no problem at all! The mail system is generally more sensible (I have 2 accounts on it, both with different servers). MacOSX features a cute toolbar with icons that bounce when something happens (like getting an alert message, or an instant message on AIM); the icons sort of roll out when you scroll over them (very silly and cute, but it doesn't get in the way). With internet, I can "hide" a page, and a thumbnail of the website appears on the toolbar! iTunes is also great. I can finally download MP3's and share music! Some things are basically the same, and there's a lot more "flash" than previous verisons, but i would definately recommend MacOSX!!! A+!!!Customer Review: Mac OS X: A truly amazing peice of software
Summary: 5 Stars
Mac OS X is a truly amazing piece of software. It's graphics are exceptional, it is much, much faster that Mac OS 9, even if it's running multiple programs. It comes with an arsenal of free software, and, once you get used to it, X is extremely easy to use. And that's only for starters; there's a lot more good things a. The only real downturns are that OS X can be hard to use at first, and you often need to download a "Carbon," or a OS X, version of a piece of software.When I have to switch back to Mac OS 9 for some bizarre reason, I realize what an eyesore it is compared to X. Probably my favorite graphical change is the menu bars at the top of a window. It looks so much better than the menu bars on 9. There are some very good Desktop pictures to choose from. Mac OS X features a lot of redesigned graphics, like the ? symbol in the upper left hand corner or the hard drive. Because people are often making their desktop a lot bigger, the wonderful people at Apple made icons larger, so you can actually see them. Oh, and someone at Apple really likes blue, not that that's a bad thing, though.
It so nice that you don't have to wait for windows to open and applications to open. I don't know how much faster X is, but it's a lot. The nicest thing is that X has a new multitasking system- even if you have every application open, the computer's running as fast as ever (I've tried it). Right now I have AOL, TextEdit, Sherlock, System Preferences, and iTunes playing music,. along with several windows.
Mac OS X probably comes with about 50 free shareware programs. The ones that stand out to me are iTunes (You better know what this is), TextEdit (A much better version of Simpletext- it about matches Appleworks), Chess (A chess program designed to show off the abilities of X: The graphics are great and on the lowest setting is nearly impossible to beat), A DVD player (I pity you if you don't know what a DVD is), Mail (A nice program that lets you take your e-mail on you computer: sadly it doesn't work with AOL), iMovie (Lets you make you own movies), and I think they've started shipping it with iPhoto, but I'm not positive. It also comes with a much improved Stickies, with different colored backgrounds, different fonts and styles. Sadly, the calculator is horrible by X standards. It's basically the same thing as in 9.
At first X seems very foreign and different than 9, you get used to it pretty fast, especially with Mac OS X: The Missing Manual by David Pouge, which teaches you everything you need to know about OS X. X almost never crashes (the actual finder, not applications). Mac OS X gets rid of a lot of stuff you had to do manually in 9, like giving out RAM or dealing with extensions. Extensions and extension conflicts don't exist in X, instead programmers write startup application. (Don't ask me what those are- I got it from that wonderful book I mentioned above) Another nce program is Home, which replaces the folder each family member used to have in my family. Home holds things like your preferences, different folders (I have folders like writing, downloads, pictures, games, etc.), and your favorite applications. Also, the Dock is very useful. It holds applications, folders, your home, and trash- just about anything that is in you hard drive. System Preferences replaces Control Panels, and is much easier to use.
Like I said above, Mac OS X hay seem a little foreign at first, but you get used to it quick. When you buy Mac OS X, get Mac OS X: A Missing Manual along with it. That should solve all your problems. If it doesn't, then go to the Apple website (the little @ sign on a spring in the dock, or http://www.apple.com/macosx).
You often have to get Carbon versions of programs for Mac OS X. The are a lot of printer drives already on the computer, in the Printer folder that's in the Library folder. For everything else, try going to the downloads part of Apple.com, and if it's not their, go to the developer's site. It is very mportant to get internet up and running early, so you can do this.
Mac Os X is a very good program, and if you need a new Operating System and you have a compatible computer (actually there's a way to get X onto older computer; it's in the Missing Manual). However, it might be a good idea to ait a little while so there's more compatible programs, but that shouldn't stop you.
Customer Review: The Joys Of OS X
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first started at the Apple Computer call center, my training class was on of the first to be trained on OS X Beta. Having used Macs half of my life, I thought that the new operating system [stunk]. However, when the call center made the conversion to X, I instantly fell in love with it. Now that I am a music producer, I have a chance to work from home on my mac. With OS X, doing all my downloading while surfing the web while running photoshop is no longer a burden on my computer. Even getting updates to OS X is a breeze. The only drawback is that there are many programs that I have to use classic for. That is no fault of apple's. Many developers dragged their feet, and are now trying to catch up. that's the only reason I'm giving it four out of five stars.