Customer Reviews for Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]

Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]
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Software Reviews of Mac OS X 10.1 [OLD VERSION]

Customer Review: be warned: peripheral support poor even in 10.1.2
Summary: 2 Stars

ALL BUT THE NEWEST RANGE OF PERIPHERALS ARE NOT SUPPORTED IN OS X. CANON feels it is as much Apple's responsibility as it is theirs. They are right in that the competitor's Windows XP can enable old or current printers to do basic printing. Tasks like ink monitoring may not work with drivers from Windows XP, but they can print, something Apple os X cannot do. SO WHY APPLE ARE YOU SLACKING! In all my years as a PC user, I have never found any peripherals problem when we upgraded our OS at the workplace. It is all about OS design, and thought from from the software designers.
My USB palm does not work, but Palm is fixing that in time.
My CDRW on firewire does not work on os X as well.
What kind of upgrade is this if we cannot use our current peripherals?
APPLE has to put in some kind of functionality with peripherals: if your OS is so complicated that it requires hardware manufacturers to rewrite all their drivers, it is going to take time and resource, something third parties will hesitate to allocate for 5% of the market.
APPLE should have thought of that. PLEASE PUT IN SOME GENERIC PRINTER DRIVERS FOR US.
Look, Microsoft thought of that. Learn some user friendliness from them.

Customer Review: terrible printer support
Summary: 2 Stars

Yes, there is a nice interface, nice email and all that, but know that there is poor support for 'older' devices. I have a Canon bjc bought 6 months ago, and an Epson laser printer bought 1 month ago, and both these manufacturers tell me that they have os X drivers only for their new printers ie those which they are marketing now.
You would think that like windows, there would be some backward compatibility or some universal printer driver, or some driver emulator to just get your document printed. As it is, with os X you have to reboot , switch to classic environment everytime you want to print, unless you have bought a printer that has os x drivers: would there be os X labels on them? There was no warning from Apple that not all printers are supported.
i use appleworks and because it is the os X version, it automatically switches to the os x environment, which means i have to change startup os x , and reboot, and then repeat this and reboot ins os x to get mail because i am using mac mail : hey why buy something when you dont use its whizzbang features you read and drooled about. be warned that this os x is poorly supported for any printer not on the manufacturer's marketing list. I read in the apple forum that people are resorting to hacking their own epson code: all it takes is some amendments. You think that having to figure that out and doing all that is the job of software engineers, and not end users, wont you? Well either they are unproductive or the corporations dont care and wont assign them those tasks to make os X more usable.
Can you imagine having an os that cannot use your current printers? What I have to reboot everytime?? Buy new printers?
Imagine the outcry window users would have, and perhaps you see why apple takes only 5% of the market, when apple converts like me repents my belief in "user friendliness". It was because of my video editing needs, but I see the pc environment is only slightly behind in that aspect.
I should have stuck to windows, if I had even suspected the tremendous lack of user friendliness, market and customer support.
Apple is silent, leaving us in the lurch, and I say: why should spend our money on you then.
This is the reason why the 5 % market share cannot be increased.
My next computer would be a pc: just so I can get things done, and i would advise you to look at the new windows os, and get a pc. if you are not a hardcore video editor, believe me that the hassles outweigh the benefits of owning a mac...

Customer Review: Mac Keeps Getting Better
Summary: 4 Stars

I just bought a new iBook with OS X 10.1. At the same time my brother bought a new desktop with Windows XP. First I have to say that I've always had a Mac so I'm a little baised. I also haven't spent a lot of time on my brother's computer. I have spent enough time though to compare the two. The Mac operating system is an elegant work of art compared to the Windows system. Where the XP is busy and confusing the Mac is elegant and understated. I like the way the icons on the dock are magnified when the cursor is rolled over them. I also like the classic feature which allows you to continue using the old noncompatible programs. It seems to be pretty stable but I have had some crashes.

OS X retains the ease of use of the previous systems and improves on them. With the growing support for the Apple and more cross platform compatibility I can't see any appeal in a computer with menu bars and pull down menus everywhere. I don't play a lot of computer games and at this time that's the only thing I see that Windows has over Mac.

Customer Review: Micro-who?
Summary: 5 Stars

I've been a Windows user since version 1.0 in 1980-something. I'd looked at Macs from time to time and liked some of what I saw, but couldn't imagine making the leap. Too much trouble for too little reward.

Then I played around with an iMac (an older one) that had been upgraded to OS X.1, and saw how Apple had not only solved some of the old shortcomings of MacOS (like the inability to access the menus without reaching for the mouse), but most of the still-current shortcomings of Windows (like instability, ugly graphics, and the inability to use it without having seven or eight other Microsoft products shoved down your throat).

I've leapt.

Customer Review: The stability of Linux with the ease of a mac
Summary: 5 Stars

As tacky as this sounds, I've always said that Mac is for people who don't care how their computer works; Windows is for people who like to think they know how their computer works; and Linux is for people who actually can make it work. And while I've always loved the simplicity of running a Mac, I've opted for Linux the past few years because, well, once you've run two ssh windows, three ftp windows, Gimp, and about twenty different web pages without a single glich, you just can't go back! The downside being you have to practically live with a sys-admin to keep it upgraded and happy.

Well, my sys-admin got tired of sharing and picked me up an iMac with OSX and it is soooo fabulous! A beautiful gui, easy to use, and the stability of Unix. Best yet, it plays well with my husband's herd of Linux computers upstairs, even letting me use my favorite programs and futz around with my beloved terminal windows when the whim strikes.

Itunes is an absolute dream -- just put in the cd and it does *everything* else. And now that I have an Ipod too, I feel truly spoiled.

Lack of software, drivers, and that sort of thing is a definite downside, and flipping back to 9 for my son's games can be a little slow, but hopefully that will be straightened out soon.

Stable, attractive, fun and easy to use, I would recommend this to almost anyone. But maybe that's just the iPod talking ;-)

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