Karlos wrote:
Sure it's fantastic as a home OS, provided you don't have any rare sight problems ;-)
It's also great if you have severe sight problems. My mum has a Windows laptop loaded up with £1000's of special software, and yet there are certain things that she has to use the basic family eMac for (like web browsing and reading PDFs) because it caters so much better straight out of the box.
Not that, that helps you in any way, just thought I'd mention it. :-)
My 1.25GHz G4 eMac at work often crawls when running Mail, BBEdit, Firefox, Transmit and couple of bash terminals concurrently which are the absolute bare minimum tools I need to do my job. Occasionally I need to use XL to prepare data for my boss, or OmniGraffle to make diagrams. Unless I close down some other apps, it will literally show me the spinning candy mouse pointer anything from 10 to 30 seconds, in which time I cannot actually click on anything.
I wonder what is going on there. On my 256MB, 700Mhz machine last week I was using iTunes, Adium, Safari, FireFox, TextEdit, and Oxygen (a big bloated Java XML editor) at the same time without any problems. What's the specs? How was the system set up? Have you asked to bring in your PPC A1200 yet? :-D
Typically I have to boot my machine twice a day at work.
:-o That's not good! Seriously you should get someone to look at it.
Recently I decided to do an OS X reinstall, after 3 years of use (and loads of dubious software, including some pretty dirty hacks) the system wasn't as responsive as it was when I got it (Did I mention in the first 2 years I did absolutely no maintainence at all?). Doing a custom install, was a piece of cake. Don't want the printer drivers installed? No problem! (I use gimp-print drivers anyway because my printer pre-dates OS X)
After completing the install, installing all the apps I use. (including Office and Photoshop Elements) and restoring some of my old data, the disk has 4.3Gig used and the system is flying like greased eels in a ill-conceived video game licenced by George Galloway :-D
It seems like many things in life, your mileage may vary. :-P
