Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
Dan Knight wrote: > > I haven't migrated to Jaguar yet -- Apple wants too much money for a > single copy, and the five-user license is currently out of the budget. > I'm running OS X 10.1.5 on a 400 MHz TiBook with a 5400 rpm 20 GB IBM > TravelStar drive and 512 MB of RAM, but more often than

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Bruce Johnson
Nick wrote: > on 12/18/02 11:15 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>Finally, although OS X is as stable as you can imagine, OS X applications >>aren't. Believe it or not -- and it surprised me -- Internet Exploder >>5.1.x is more stable under OS 9.x than IE 5.2.x is under OS X. Di

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread james barnum
Try "Chimera", works great for me. Much better than Netscape 7 and IE. Jim >On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Nick wrote: > >> on 12/18/02 11:15 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>> Finally, although OS X is as stable as you can imagine, OS X >>> applications >

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Gregory Cortelyou
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 01:07 PM, Nick wrote: > on 12/18/02 11:15 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Finally, although OS X is as stable as you can imagine, OS X >> applications >> aren't. Believe it or not -- and it surprised me -- Internet Exploder >> 5.1.x is more

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread gregg hillmar
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 12:32 PM, Amber Rhea wrote: > One last comment: I wouldn't be using OS X at *all* if it weren't for > WindowShadeX! I *hate* the default behavior of OS X's "minimzing" > windows - looks wy too much like Windows to me, and for me it is > more difficult to k

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread David M. Ensteness
I run Jag on a 400 G3 Pismo with 768MB and a 4200rpm drive ... its great ... I will say everyone should take the plunge ... David > Not saying you should or should not take the plunge for Jaguar - just > sharing my experience. Heck, I wouldn't be using it if I hadn't > received a free (LEGAL! be

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 18/12/02 13:07, "Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 12/18/02 11:15 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Finally, although OS X is as stable as you can imagine, OS X applications >> aren't. Believe it or not -- and it surprised me -- Internet Exploder >> 5.1.x is more stable un

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 18/12/02 12:32, "Amber Rhea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One last comment: I wouldn't be using OS X at *all* if it weren't for > WindowShadeX! I *hate* the default behavior of OS X's "minimzing" > windows - looks wy too much like Windows to me, and for me it is > more difficult to keep tra

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Nick
on 12/18/02 11:15 AM, Dan Knight at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Finally, although OS X is as stable as you can imagine, OS X applications > aren't. Believe it or not -- and it surprised me -- Internet Exploder > 5.1.x is more stable under OS 9.x than IE 5.2.x is under OS X. Ditto for > iCab. These

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Mark
Amber Rhea on 12/18/02 12:32 PM wrote: > One last comment: I wouldn't be using OS X at *all* if it weren't for > WindowShadeX! I *hate* the default behavior of OS X's "minimzing" While I wouldn't quite using OSX without WindowShade X, I have to say it's well worth the $7 shareware fee. I love tha

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Amber Rhea
One last comment: I wouldn't be using OS X at *all* if it weren't for WindowShadeX! I *hate* the default behavior of OS X's "minimzing" windows - looks wy too much like Windows to me, and for me it is more difficult to keep track of everything I have open, than if I have their menubars floa

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Amber Rhea
On Wednesday, December 18, 2002, at 11:18 AM, (G-Books) wrote: > My computer handles OS 9 beautifully. 400 MHz is plenty of speed. The > new > drive and half gig of memory helps with OS X, but it's still sluggish. > I > hate to imagine using it on a stock WallStreet, Lombard, Pismo, or > sub-600

Re: Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 18/12/02 11:15, "Dan Knight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip!] > I use CopyAgent to intelligently copy files between my working partition > and a backup folder on another partition. It's smart enough to only copy > files that are different. And if I really make a mess of things, I can > recover

Mac OS 9 vs. X

2002-12-18 Thread Dan Knight
David M. Ensteness writes: >Is this an honest question or a troll? Mac OS Anything vs. any version of Windows (or *nix for that matter) is a troll and specifically declared off topic on this list. This list is for supporting Mac users on the Mac OS, either classic or X. >I say that because Mac