On Thursday, February 17, 2005, at 12:24PM, Neil Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 21:01:49 +0000, Mark Benson wrote: >Point taken. I must have been unlucky in that for the sort of stuff I do >with these computers Jaguar didn't seem that big a deal. My address book >example is a case in point - why do I need to upgrade an entire OS just >to gain some address book functionality that in fact I didn't want in the >first place? Like a lot of OS X, it should have been there from the start, but early versions lacked a lot of the things that 'should have been there from the start', like Quartz Extreme, Proper Networking support, etc. >If I had to do that, why not just use the new Mail app that >came with Jaguar? In fact that was what I did in the end when I got the >new machine....and 6 months later I got fed up with Mail when it started >to grind to a halt and had to find another mail client :-( I'm hoping above all hope that Spotlight and the dynamic indexing services in it will stop the whole Mail.app grinding to a hlt thing. I get very frustrated with it myself but frankly have found no decent alternative that works as well with OS X's built in features. I used to use Eudora in OS 9 but it's OS X cousin is an absolute pile of preverbails, to be honest. >I tend to find that I'm initially underwhelmed by these OS X upgrades and >only gradually realize how much has improved when I have to go back to >the older versions. I once used 10.1 for a short time on my 9600/G3 Powermac, it was something of a painful experience ;o) >Like connecting to a shared drive in Jaguar and >waiting for the finder window to pop up with the new drive, as it does in >Panther. Oddly that feature annoys me, I got so used to it NOT popping up a window I click on the tingy i nthe side bar and then end up with 2 windows for the share... <SIGH> Yes, I'm still finding new stuff in 10.3 over 16 months after it was released! >>My prediction now stands for release on June 6th at WWDC 2005. > >Haven't all the new OS X releases been in-between the big Expos/ >conferences so far? WWDC *is* a large conference, isn't it? >I'll go for late March (what an optimist!) - gives >them time to get the first series of 10.4.x updates out to appease the >developers whose applications have broken, before they arrive at WWDC ;-) BWAHAHAAHA!! Fat chance ;o) >How about April 1st? That would be a lot more likely than March... :o) -- Mark Benson http://homepage.mac.com/markbenson -- Mac UK is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac UK list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-uk.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-uk%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
