Mac OS X Server

My friend, a PC user saw my system and is asking me to burn his home videos, etc. He gave up on getting his Windows system to work right!


Awesome!   July 6, 2003
 8 out of 8 found this review helpful

Best OS I have ever used and I have been in the industry for 25 years. If you haven't moved on from windows yet, now is the time that you really should. This is the OS that everybody should be using.


One of the good ones.   June 28, 2003
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Mac OS X.2 (10.2 or Jaguar) is one of the sturdiest operating systems i've used. I know most pc users out-right hate Macs... I don't OSX including OSX.2 has UNIX built in. This allows great things to be done. And supports older Mac software. I can't wait for OSX.3 (Panther)... This will add more great features such as Expose, a new version of Mail, a new finder (they allow labels to be used like in MacOS/System 7 & 8), and even fast user switching. iChatAV will remake the face of instant messaging. Panther is the only way you could make Jaguar better... Panther will even come with X11 (Xfree) to allow Linux programs that use XWindows to run.


Best OS available   June 27, 2003
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This is the best OS I've used, and I've used a lot of 'em


Best Keeps Getting Better   June 27, 2003
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Don't be fooled. Don't join the masses. With Apple's new G5 systems, Macs blow everything else out of the water. Sure there are more Windows users than Mac users. There are also more cockroaches than humans. Does that make the cockroach a superior being? (Well, the immunity to radiation bit is in their favor.)
Jaguar is the latest release of OS X. A true multitasking operating system based on UNIX. Yes, there is a REAL version of UNIX under the hood and the hackers among you will drool over the possibilities. Apple is beginning to take advantage of the superior hardware design capabilities of the Mac with OS X.
The best part, OS X hides the UNIX underpinnings in a superior Graphical User Interface (known as Aqua.) So, if you know nothing about UNIX, don't worry, you don't have to know UNIX to use a Mac. Ease of use has been the hallmark of Macs since their introduction back in 1984.
You have the ability to create a true multi-user enviornment. Multiple userids, multiple processes running simultaneously and protected memory. This means if you have a program crash, only the one program will crash, everything else keeps going and going and going. (Sorry Energizer Bunny, I couldn't resist.)
If you are a UNIX lover, Apple provides the Terminal application which gives you full access to the UNIX kernel system.
If you are among the long-time Mac user community, you may have come to love the capabilities of OS 9 (or 8 or earlier.) Some Macs still have the ability to boot into either OS 9 or OS X. Newer Macs only allow OS X booting. If you still have programs from the days when you could boot into OS 9, you can still run many of them in "Classic" environment. Classic is an emulator, running on OS X to allow you to still run older programs requiring the older OS. Admittedly, there are programs that won't work in Classic. Mostly programs needing custom-made extensions or Control Panels may not load. Also, most of the still-existing software companies are creating native OS X versions of their programs.
If you insist on running Windows XP or 2000 or 98 or 95 or DOS, you even have the option of running Virtual PC (which, by the way, is now owned by Microsoft - think about that for a moment.)
There is also a Mac version of Microsoft's Office Suite. This allows you to exchange documents with your PC counterparts, seamlessly.
Macs have superior video capabilities and OS X takes full advantage of this.
OS X has some superior software to go along for the ride - iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto and iTunes, to name a few. These are all free.
With OS X, Mac users will be leaving others in the dust.
Superior hardware design coupled with well-thought-out software design makes the Mac environment hard to beat. Add to that the ability to use state-of-the art hardware and nothing else even comes close. Long live Mac!