All my remarks are based on the way my computer behaves in Panther, and regular readers of this list will be aware of some (about 50%) of the severe problems I have encountered in using this supposedly superior system.
The only reason I use OSX at all is that the planned obsolescence of both System 9 and the hardware to run it has required me to do so.
Pure highway robbery.
Among the adverse effects is that on Finale: The program has actually gotten worse since 2K2 (wh. was the finest iteration of the program in its history), and almost all the deficiencies are due to the requirements of OSX. Press three keys to toggle scroll/page view? Give me a break!
On Jan 30, 2005, at 1:29 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
I am really sorry you feel this way. I felt the same the first year that
I was using OS X. Personally I think that OS X 10.3 Panther changed
this. The reason is that a lot of things that were previously there but
difficult to access have now matured, and the system feels very much
grown up. Only then was I able to appreciate the enormous technology
advance that OS X gives me.
Andrew Stiller wrote:On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:11 PM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:you will quickly find that it [OSX] is much better than OS 9That has most emphatically *not* been my experience. OSX is a fix for something that was not broken, and that has forced all of us to buy thousands of dollars of new software, and waste weeks of time installing and configuring it, simply to continue doing business as usual. If we're lucky.
IMO the whole thing is highway robbery, pure and simple.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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