Sold out for osx and wow

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OS X Tiger is really good. I got a 1.5Ghz PowerBook G4 (1.25Gig of RAM) recently, and really enjoy using it.

Can't wait until Apple shift to the dual core x86, then I'll get a dektop Mac too.

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Karlos wrote:
I have to endure a 1.25GHz eMac at work running 10.3 in 256MB ram on a third rate graphics card. Naturally, I love it...

Any MacOS before 10.4 was not good, certainly I was never tempted to part with any cold hard cash... I can feel your pain with ony 256megs, OS X needs at least twice that to be happy. Though with a decent CPU (ie 2Ghz Athlon64), 10.4 runs fine in VESA2.0 mode ;-)

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Karlos wrote:
@Doobrey

One of my principal gripes with OSX relate to my super evovled next generation colour perception and the fact that OSX still doesn't let me define "highlighted text foreground colour = X, highlighted text background colour = Y". You may only set the background colour or invert the whole scheme (as part of the accessibility options - :lol:)

I mean, how elementally simple is that? I know it is mac tradition to limit the complexity of the interface so that even the interior designer types can get to grips with it, but please, even they can grasp the idea of more than one colour at a time :lol:

It seems someone at at Apple was listening to you... since I suffer a similar (if not the same) affliction, I also needed to change the highlighted text colour... so I went to system preferences and then selected appearance... lo and behold there is a setting in Tiger that allows one to set that very feature. :-D

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Karlos wrote:

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It seems someone at at Apple was listening to you... since I suffer a similar (if not the same) affliction, I also needed to change the highlighted text colour... so I went to system preferences and then selected appearance... lo and behold there is a setting in Tiger that allows one to set that very feature. :-D

That must be one of the 'dozens of updates' in Tiger then. Still stuck with 10.3.9 here and I sure don't have that option anywhere. Are you sure it lets you independently set the back and foreground text colours?

All I get is this:

http://www.extropia.co.uk/_temp/prefs.png

Err, yeah... I set the appearance to blue and then used a custom colour for the highlight (a very dark blue)... now I have no visual problems what so ever...

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All this kicking of OS X isn't really very constructive... Since I have has the opertunity to run OSX and Windows on the same hardware, I can say that all performance issues experienced with OS X are due to crap hardware... can't wait 'till apple drop the crap PPC and use the superior x86 architecture

As for OS X security... it's been mroe secure than both Win2K and WinXP for me.

As For OS X stability, it's as stable as the most stable Unix I've ever used (AIX and Linux), beats the hell out of Windows and AmigaOS.

OS X has something a bit special for Audio users though... The core audio is excelent, low latencty, highly integrated and STABLE!

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Karlos wrote:
Seems out of the box the mac mini 1.25GHz and eMac 1.25 GHz are pretty similar, but the eMac is more expandible...

I read that as "expendable"...