04-07-2006, 12:38 AM
It is the System... of course, the quality hardware just adds to the overall experience, but if it were not for OS X, the Mac would not be the Mac. I started with Macs with version 3.xx (maybe 4.xx, can't remember), and it was much better than what was available at that time, DOS, etc., but through version 9.xx, I often called even the Mac a piece of junque!! All it takes is spending too much time trying to get things to work right, crashes, extension conflicts (remember ConflictCatcher?), and I felt like throwing my Mac out the window many times under the systems from 4.xx through 9.xx. Then came OS X! I started with it when it first came out 5 years ago, now running 10.4.5 on my Pismo, wife's iBook G3 800, daughter's iBook G3 700, and hardly any problems at all...
What can I say: I just want the thing to do what it is supposed to do - OS X lives up to that for me, with very little annoyances. Yes, give people the chance to run Windows on their Macs, I for one am surely not worried about that comparison!
What can I say: I just want the thing to do what it is supposed to do - OS X lives up to that for me, with very little annoyances. Yes, give people the chance to run Windows on their Macs, I for one am surely not worried about that comparison!