>> I've been playing around with the Mac OS X beta and
>> I've not had to 
>> restart my computer once. I was even able to force
>> quit Unreal Tournament 
>> in the middle of a game. Memory protection is much
>> better.
>
>Is it really that much better.  I know the visuals are
>stunning.  But I don't really care about that.  I want
>my applications to work and work cooperatively.
>Any software incompatibilities?

So far the classic environment is very slow. (They'll have to optimize 
it, and they will.) Since I'm testing this mostly with games (for an 
article I'm writing) it seems that a few things aren't working to well - 
InputSprocket is only so-so, RAVE doesn't work at all - think 3-4fps in 
Diablo II. I haven't been able to try any intensive video/graphics 
programs on it yet, but a friend of mine works a lot in 3D and video said 
it works fine. (In fact, he didn't find Mac OS X to be any slower.)

The greatest part of Mac OS X I've found so far is the insanely good 
memory protection. I've not had to restart my system once under Mac OS X. 
Once they optimize the classic environment, get some more native apps and 
fix RAVE and stuff, this OS will be a killer app in itself.

>I don't want to touch a beta with iso-tongs.  It took
>so much to get everything working on my G4, I haven't
>even loaded postscript fonts, yet.  I'm still too
>paranoid (for graphics I have interpreters to do the
>fonts, the rest I suffer with the basic truetype, or
>convert to truetype).

Good god, man. What exactly do you do with your computer that's making it 
so difficult? I use mine for watching anime, playing games, a little web 
work, some 3D stuff and Photoshop here and there and I love it.

>I'll be waiting for the Full Release version, unless
>there is a big price break for getting the Beta and upgrading.

Definitely. I wouldn't recommend buying the beta unless you like to 
tinker around with it - IMO, it's not usable as a primary operating 
system yet. Too slow. I got mine for free - I don't know if I'd have paid 
$30 for it.



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