01-11-2013, 05:35 PM
davester,
I forgot to add, OS X had to iterate as fast as it did because it was a rather crappy platform in the early days. 10.0 and 10.1 just weren't that great. 10.2 was much better, but I can't say the platform was superior to XP until 10.3, and possibly even 10.4. Tiger was really nice.
Notice, I still didn't use XP by choice, or even particularly like it much when forced to by different clients. However, to be perfectly candid, my whitebox XP Pro tower was stable and reliable. No junk add-ons, only the software I added, and the hardware, while entry level, was still well specced for the task. Still didn't stop me from dual booting into Ubuntu for most tasks.
I forgot to add, OS X had to iterate as fast as it did because it was a rather crappy platform in the early days. 10.0 and 10.1 just weren't that great. 10.2 was much better, but I can't say the platform was superior to XP until 10.3, and possibly even 10.4. Tiger was really nice.
Notice, I still didn't use XP by choice, or even particularly like it much when forced to by different clients. However, to be perfectly candid, my whitebox XP Pro tower was stable and reliable. No junk add-ons, only the software I added, and the hardware, while entry level, was still well specced for the task. Still didn't stop me from dual booting into Ubuntu for most tasks.