Pissed Switcher

Guess I'm lucky. The only things that had bothered me about OS X are the changes in how stuff is organized in the finder menus and a couple key commands but I'm gradually getting used to using the dock and navigating the file organization windows. I kind of like the horizontal pane structure rather than trying to move files from the bottom of a scrolling window all the way to a folder at the top or opening a separate window and resizing them so you can see both at once. But I can understand how someone less techy would be a little disoriented at first.

Last week, an SE/30 was donated to our department at work, and I did a clean install of System 6 for fun. It's amazing. Clean. Obvious. And fast. Super-duper fast. If the Finder still behaved this way, everybody would talk about how sucky Windows XP is. ClarisWorks positively screams. The thing boots in about eight seconds, and shuts down instantly. Instantly. Remind me again why I have a G4.

Haha That movie was excellent. Since i’m not a Mac person, i can’t relate, but it was funny nonetheless.

Heh... that was pretty funny. I have an old Classic II at work, sitting next to the Dell I'm forced to use, running a Hypercard stack I wrote myself ... it's a clock, and a calendar, with the big happy Mac face behind it. I get lots of comments, mostly from my PC-based friends. Things like, "Best use of a Mac I've ever seen." Sigh. I *wish* I had a G4...

I actually bought a mac because of OS X. I was a windows/linux user. So OS X for me is perfect.
I've wanted a mac for a long time but when OS X came out I just had to have a mac.

and ohh yeah. The form fields are kinda messed up in mozilla. you only see half of the font

RE: Moz form fields... it does that with most sites, it seems. At least, all the sites I go to ...

a lot of people have negative reactions at first. I did to a degree...but now my frustrations are most things that have to do with OS 9. (QUARK!)

I'd like to hear about what is so bad about X that is related to his job as a web designer. Other than overcoming and adapting to differences in the Apple Menu and Finder, what is difficult and frustrating? I find OS X much more efficient (except for printing and network browsing).

I thought that this guy was funny as hell! Almost as good as the ‘mac to pc switch’ user who looks like she is stoned out of her mind. Personally, I just did the ‘switch’ from win98 to osx. So far, I’m loving it. Granted, I haven’t had the time to get pissed off at it yet, but only time can tell, right?

I guess I'm lucky as well. I work as a multimedia des/dev and so I have the luxury to NOT have to worry about any of the many issues print designers have in X.( I still use 9 at home on my old G3 for my freelance and personal print projects of course)

For me, OSX happily coincided with my interest in *nixs as I got more and more into
the server side of things. Being able to run Bash shell and use putty to SSH into my X box from my win2k PC box gives me geeky joy. Man, the stability alone sold me. The finder however, stills feels strange at times. 10.2 was HUGE improvement on my dual 450 G4 here at work. It literally felt like a different machine. Still, in the beginning(OSX beta for me) it was a jarring transisition. But now I can't stand being oin 9 do to non-print work.

One thing that really sucks: this comment window. I just wrote a really interesting, informative, and well-reasoned response to "Pissed Switcher" (it even had a few really funny jokes in it). Then I accidentally hit some key on my keyboard that made the screen refresh for some reason. My nice little thing was gone, and since there's no back button (God, how I hate windows with no controls), I lose my nice little response, and so do you. Our loss. I realize this site is all about CSS and controlling the page, and being the webmaster and all that, but it still sucks, and I'll probably never write another word again for the rest of my life. After this, of course....

The new Macs are out. You know: the ones that won’t boot to OS 9? Anybody who thinks Microsoft sucks and Apple doesn’t hasn’t been paying attention to Apple lately. This is just plain stupid...

Lucky me - I bought an iBook a couple weeks ago when I heard they were going to do this (and they were two hundred dollars more expensive). So I can still run Pro Tools and Reason and Photoshop 6. My modem sucks, and I can’t connect to the Internet any faster than 33.6k (an ongoing problem that Apple has been ignoring and lying about for years), but I feel sort of special in a way. I just bought one of the last real Macs. It’s a sad, sad thing

OS X is kind of pretty. But thousands of dollars invested in applications counts for more than a few pretty interface tweaks. I realize Steve Jobs is filthy rich and can’t imagine why people don’t just pop for the OS X versions. I’m not filthy rich. It’s going to be a long time before I switch to OS X.

Remember when Mac users could pat themselves on the back, knowing that Mac OS was a “real” operating system, and not just some GUI shell running on top of an old OS? My, how times change!

I guess I'm just lucky, too. With the exception of getting used to the inherent file structures of OSX, I've had no troubles with it at all. I was using it at work while still running 9 at home, and all I wished for was a home computer that ran like the one at work. Now I have it, and there's no way I'd go back. :)