Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]
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.Customer Review: Only if you want to fly!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Two computers are side by side in my desk. XP in Desktop (1Ghz with 256MB) and OS X in PowerBook G4 (400Mhz with 256). It is shame for intel architecture and Microsoft programmers that with so fast machine from intel and so promesing OS from Microsoft can't even come close to the 400Mhz G4 CPU running OS X. The result is simple. My Desktop intel computer is on sale on eBay while I fly with OS X. Not once (3 months) I needed to restart. I almost feel as if I am running faster then my desktop machine (1Ghz). This is imagine... Software? what kind of software do you need? I have installed Photoshop 7, Office X, Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, MSN Messanger... all the stuffs I used to have in XP there is same version in Mac OS X. Guys, do some change, see the outside and future, try mac... I have done it...Customer Review: A powerful stable OS that is the way of the future
Summary: 4 Stars
I have been running OS X for about 3 months now on my 400 MHz G3 (blue and white) server with 256 MB RAM. When I first openened the box I noticed there was almost nothing in the way of instructions on how to install the OS. This had me skeptical at first. But my doubts were quickly washed away when I inserted the CD, told it to install, rebooted my computer, and was ready to go in about 10-20 mins. It worked on the first time with no troubles (something I cant say about certain PC OS software).
Once the software was installed I was able to get on the internet in a few short minutes with their Internet setup utility. I also imediately started to change settings and found that not all settings listed in the book are available to my older computer. Nothing too important, just auto start up features and some other minor things that are only available on G4 Macs. I then set up my computer to be a Web Server (I have a T1 connection) in about 30 seconds, and an FTP server as well. So I transferred all my webpages off of my University account and had them up and running in about 5 minutes. I can also remotely log into my computer using any SSH software anywhere in the world and have full control over it. It is a full blown UNIX machine. It even comes with developement software, like objective C++, etc, so you can do your own programs right out of the box.
I will say that this software hasn't been 100% trouble free. I did have to restart once, I had my computer on for 2 weeks and for some reason I couldn't change any of my internet settings one day, restarted and it was just fine. Not entirely certain why. Also Sherlock acts up on my computer ocasionally, where it will just stop searching or crash. Restarting fixes the problem. And the final thing is, I wouldn't install it on any slower of a computer than what I am using. G3 400/256 MB of RAM. Games are slow and window resizing and dragging has minor delay. Otherwise it is a wonderful OS. If I had a G4 I would probably rate it 5 stars. Also if you are in education, student/faculty of any level, check out Apples website, they offer HUGE discounts on their software.
For the price this is an extremely powerful OS. Also if you dont like UNIX, you don't even notice its there. If you like UNIX, you can have a terminal open in a jiffy, typing in commands.
Customer Review: Great upgrade, if you've got the hardware.
Summary: 5 Stars
Really a sharp interface and easy to learn. I found most or all of my favorites have made it to MacOS X, and use it full time on both my home (B&W G3) and work (G4 Tower) computers.My only caution is to make sure that your hardware is compatible (it won't run well on G3 upgrades, and the older iBooks and iMacs). Also, adequate RAM really speeds up the system...I had a substantial speed boost when I brought the computers up to 512 MB RAM.
Customer Review: An ex-PC user's point of view.
Summary: 5 Stars
As a new Mac user, I already feel at home with OS X. The interface is very easy to use and straightforward, yet very powerful.Those of you already familiar with setting up multiple operating systems in a Windows environment know how unpleasant it can be. That's not the case here, in fact, it couldn't get any easier than this. Using the discs that come in this package, you will install both OS 9 and OS X. You can boot to either of them. No more messing around with partitioning, editing a BOOT file, etc etc. You just install the two OSes and select which one you want to boot from, and you can change that as often as you want to.
In OS X, you can run OS 9 applications using classic-mode, which is automatic. If you run a non-OS X native application, classic starts up automatically and runs the app for you. Apple has made this very transparent and easy for people to use.
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