Aqua Baby (Mac OS X)

Member Name: stevesingh

Product:	Mac OS X
Date:	30/01/03 (1052 review reads)
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Advantages: Ease of Use, Easy on the Eye, Fantastic Software Support

Disadvantages: Can't use Outlook Express

I should start off by saying that I am a Mac fan.
(Although having been to the Expo at Islington, I should probably downgrade that to 'keen', rather than fan - it was something akin to being at a Star Trek convention, I should imagine, never having been to one - really - promise!)
And I had been a little timid about upgrading from the old OS 9, on my 2 year old iMac. But, he who dares - that and the opportunity to borrow the cd from someone who had recently purchased a PowerBook - made me take the plunge.
That was two months ago.
A fair testing time.
And here are the results.
The Mac OSX beats the Mac OS9 hands down.
End of story.....or it would be, if not for a couple of problems.

As you may or may not know, both Operating Systems can be run on the same computer.
This is actually incredibly handy. Although you have to restart the computer to jump into each system, it does give you the luxury of easing yourself in to Mac OSX.
Which is something that has to be done, because it is very different.
Apart from the beautiful aqua interface - which so many rave about; Apple have also made an awful lot of changes behind the scenes - they're nice, they're good, they're great, but they also take some getting used to; so it's good to be able to check up in OS9 and see the changes in OSX.
Which is where the first small problem lay.

Each Operating System seems to be improved upon slightly over a period of months - ironing out any bugs they may find.
So, OS9 becomes OS9.1 and 9.2.
And you cannot run Mac OSX unless you have Mac OS9.1 or above. So that had to be downloaded from the Apple support download site ( It's FREE, but it takes hours; and sometimes you lose the connection, and it takes days).
And then the biggest problem:
Mac OSX (or Mac OSX 10.1.5 - the last edition before Mac OSX10.2 Jaguar to its friends) does not run with Outlook Express.
Shocker!!
Having p
ut all my e-mail addresses into OE to be downloaded and read at my leisure, in Mac OS9, I now discover that I have to go to each e-mail box to search through my mail.
Time consuming or what?
For me this is a huge drawback, but one, apparently, that's been rectified in Mac OSX 10.2. And for that I only have to shell about £99.00 (Not yet, methinks)

But for that, this OS would get the 5 star treatment; especially with downloadable software like iMusic, iPhoto, iMovie2 and all the other iThings.

But all in all it's great, and I will, at some point in the near future be investing in the Mac OS X10.2, but that will be incorporated in my new iMac. (I'm still saving)

It's unlike anything else, but in this case, all the better for it.

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