I agree with this 100%! If the OP has been using Macs for 20 years, are you going to tell me that ANY version of System 7 was better than ANY version of OS X?
Don't forget how buggy OS9 was, even in the final version. I had OS9 as a secondary bootable OS on my PowerMac Digital Audio and the final release of OS9 still crashed too darn often, IMO.
I remember with OS X 10.0 that even though I couldn't do too much in it, and mostly had to boot into OS 9, the mere fact that I could launch multiple applications at once, and then switch back to another one and not have to
I came late to the Mac game. I had a Commodore Vic20 in '81, a Commodore 64 in '82 until 1989 and then an Amiga 500 and then an Amiga 3000 in 1991 until 1999 so multi-tasking and a stable operating system with the Amiga was nothing new to me. If anything, OSX reminds me more of the Amiga than it does the old classic Mac OS, which probably explains why I like the Mac now and didn't like it much then. I got a PC in 1999 and Win98 wasn't the most horrible thing I could imagine, but it crashed a lot (but loads of cool games to play).
I didn't get a Mac until 2006 when I bought a used PowerMac Digital Audio at a computer show in Allentown, PA while there for the Pinball Wizards convention just to try the thing out. It had OSX 10.3 on it with a dual CPU 500MHz G4 and crappy ATI Rage128 card in it. It was enough to find the operating system interesting so I updated to 10.4 Tiger and threw OS9 on there just to play with it (since I missed that period) which let me run some really old Mac games from the '90s among other things and try out the old iTunes and other older software I found online just to see what the experience was like.
Upon trying the more modern iTunes I got this crazy idea of starting a whole house audio system when AppleTV came out, so I updated the hardware on it to a 1.8GHz G4 with 1.5GB ram and an ATI 9800Pro and SataII card with dual 1.5GB Barracuda drives, which not only powered my whole house audio/video system from 2007 until late 2012 when I got my current Mac Mini to replace it, but let me play all kinds of games from year 2000+ time period on it. Really, it performed quite well until about 2010 when the Net seemed to get slower and slower and eventually browser support dried up and when iTunes was no longer available, I decided it was time to replace it in 2012, but I waited for the newer Mini model with USB3.
So between that and trying Linux during my PC years, I've played with just about every major OS incarnation in one form or another save perhaps AtariST which I only have used emulators for. I had Atari 800s back in school and all kinds of UNIX based workstations in college in the '90s. So when I say 10.9 Mavericks is a GOOD operating system, I'm not kidding.
Yeah, they could optimize drivers and get OpenGL even further up-to-date to improve gaming support, but other than games, OSX just blows away the Windows experience, which starts out "OK" but gets progressively worse as you add programs and constantly have to update for security issues...like EVERY day it seemed like, run virus and malware checkers all the time and deal with fragmented hard drives and just deal with the fact that a large registry slows boot times no matter how immaculate you keep the system. I never had those issues on an Amiga. You didn't even have to shut it down. You could normally just turn off the power. I ran a browser in the late '90s on a computer that was never designed for it with a mere 68030 with only 18MB ram with an added graphics card (using Picasso drivers) for 24-bit color browsing. That would have been impossible on any PC out there with those kind of specs. Efficiency shouldn't be underrated. Just because more powerful CPUs mean you CAN make an OS more bloated, it doesn't mean you should and it concerns me that iOS is getting so very bloated these days that I can't update my iPod Touch 4th Gen model to iOS7 when it's only one model behind.
Bloat is bad and I wish Apple would remember that. They have the resources to keep things efficient. They have the resources to keep OSX ahead of the curve. Yeah, Macs aren't known for gaming, for example, but Apple could certainly do a lot to change that, even if just by keeping graphics drivers optimized and OpenGL up-to-date. That would help plenty of things other than just games, for that matter. I don't see why OSX should play second fiddle to Windows for ANY function. It should be up to the user to decide how to use his/her machine, not Apple.
I have no idea where this is going... Mavericks is a huge mess. Huge. Nothing really works. Especially Apple's own apps. FCPx, Logic Pro, Mail, Safari etc are all causing the console to throw 'LOG MESSAGE QUOTA EXCEEDE' - to those who don't know, that means LOTs of errors. The Graphic Drivers are out of whack.... completely. And while the Apple Team makes videos about how GREAT everything works, all their users are reaching high levels of frustration....
The OS X, I once knew is totally gone and reminds me of something Microsoft would have released 4 years ago. Sad times for Apple users, indeed. Steve's gone and so is S. Forestall...
Wow
I think your computer must be damaged or something.
I get NO SUCH ERRORS and have zero problems now other than my mouse not waking up from sleep (which may be a hardware conflict since the same mouse wakes find on my Macbook Pro with Mavericks).
