Anyone happy with OS 4.1? Is it much to write home about?

[sandpiper]

@Amithony

I am very happy with OS4.1 in my micro. It seems more polished than 4.0, and more stable. I find that my micro with OS4.x is very quick and is more responsive than several of my WinXP Pro machines. As a long time Amiga user (20+ years now), I think it is the best Amiga OS yet.

For those who complain about the high price of SAM + OS4, the amount of money I have in my micro is far less than what I have sunk into my A2500/Blizzard 060/PicassoIV system over the years - or what others have in their Cyberstorm equipped machines. Amigas never have been cheap and probably never will be. The SAM system costs less than my micro and is lowest price Amiga system that I have ever seen.

[sandpiper]

@pVC

For me it certainly doesn't do all I need from an OS. The biggest problem is lack of file management options. Amiga's Workbench hasn't ever been good for handling the files and still isn't in 4.1. I've been using Magellan2 as Workbench replacement over 10 years on my classic Amigas and using plain WB is just impossible for real work. OS4's problem is also with external filemanagers, Magellan doesn't work and even old time clumsy two view managers don't seem to work good enough (for example dopus4 and amidisk crash too much with 4.1). Also when you try to fall back to shell, it doesn't help much in file management... no backbuffer/scrollbar, no tabs, no anything.

Good points. I miss Opus Magellan on OS4 too. DOpus 4 is good and getting better all the time but its still not the same. You should try the latest betas of DOpus4. It is very stable on my machine.

[sandpiper]

@Amithony

I remember that the requirements to run software were far lower than its PC counterparts where a Mb of RAM really went far. Is it still the case now with 4.1?

Generally speaking yes, although recent ports from other platforms require lots of memory - OWB is a good example. In my experience, in normal use 256MB is fine for my micro. I have been playing around with OWB and I wish I had 512MB.