My first Mac experience

[Lacero]

The school's library Macs probably were not maintained, and the crashing problems probably were the result of bad RAM. I made tons of money on a Mac running OS 9.2 for days on end without a system crash. I used it for heavy duty video editing, DVD authoring and burning, and a host of other things.

Mac and OS9 are more than capable, even by today's standards. The UI was plenty fast, without the overhead of today's OSX requirements.

 

[MacSA]

I'm considering getting an iBook when Tiger comes out, but after seeing how "well" the PowerMacs worked, I'm not that enthusiastic about Apple's capabilities. In fact, I was downright dissapointed with Apple.

Comments, anyone?

What kind of response did you expect to get when you make an assumption about Apples current hardware and software based on your experience with a 6 year old OS on a public computer that's has likely had tens of thousands of people messing about with it?

 

[Eastend]

The school's library Macs probably were not maintained, and the crashing problems probably were the result of bad RAM. I made tons of money on a Mac running OS 9.2 for days on end without a system crash. I used it for heavy duty video editing, DVD authoring and burning, and a host of other things.

Mac and OS9 are more than capable, even by today's standards. The UI was plenty fast, without the overhead of today's OSX requirements.

I'll second this opinion also, we use it (OS 9) in our press area all day long, problems do arise about once a week and fixed easy. Also, what MacSa said below the previous poster is valid, lots of different people were probably using that machine and really sc###d it up. Another valid point has already been made in this thread time and time again, you cannot compare OS 9 to OS X. I have almost forgotten how to work in 9, it is getting old, I use it for one old scanners driver and not very often.

Brian

 

[Norouzi]

And some were more of the Windows bashing I've noticed that some Mac fans really enjoy. I thank you for those as well.

Well to that I'd say that were just trying to make up for the fact that if you mention the word Mac to a PC user the typical response is one of the following:

"Mac's are stupid"
"No one uses Mac's"
"There's no software for Mac's"
"You can't do anything on a Mac"

Now to even further the Mac user's fustration here's the typical response I get when I respond to thoes acusations with the question "Have you ever used a Mac":
"No."

So your honor the defense rests.