They have thier good points, are unique with innovative features but if your not "born to mac" then they can be a bloody pain in the neck.

Where is the right click(not as featured as with pc)?
y dont progs remember filepaths?
how do you know what a file is if it dosn't have an extention?(6th sense?)

I still think the 68k macs are the best(at the moment).

shaktiman

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I would not personally describe macs with the phrase "ease of use"

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Mayor of NuBus City v3.0

On one last note, they're one of the biggest Hollywood Stars. Start taking a tally when you watch the movies and you'll see Macs dominate the silver screen. To keep costs low, they use their own production equip. and what's going to handle the graphics better than a Mac?

Another factor that makes a Mac a Mac is complete freedom of the user to move files all around the filesystem. On a Mac, you can easily organize applications into folders, whereas on Windoze or UNIX, when you move a program and/or its files, it usually won't run any more. This freedom is great for organized Mac users, who can put their files into whatever order best suits them. However, it's horrible for absent-minded people such as myself; we move files to somewhere, and then we can't remember where we put them.

<-WARNING!->
if you use windows ME, then you know the file that causes the most crashes and lockups is a file called DDhelp.exe. well, what it does is it helps the system access DLL files (lil'/big driver files) so what I did was I went into the windows folder, and deleted it! and from that point on, I thought I would be able to play a game more than once before restarting... WRONG!! now nothing works, and nstead of having to restart the computer every 3 hours, it's every 3-30 minutes! no matter how much microsoft hyped it up, windows ME is just 100$CAN worth of dog sh*t! (fortunately, we got it for free, but I think it was overpriced)
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ease of use is not having to restart your computer every 15 seconds

ease of use is having all your hardware work in your system without having to fiddle with 23000 tings

ease of use is not having 90-95% of your processors power doing useless things, leaving only 66MHz to work with programs (windows XP doesnt work on a 400MHz processor! moving the mouse is choppy!)

ease of use is being able to drage stuff from your music program (Itunes) and into your CDburning software (roxio toast) and be able to do other things while you burn, and not get errors

ease of use is being able to pllug your computer into a network, and have it work instantly on the internet, and it will see all the computers on that particular network

ease of use is the apple macintosh line of computers (exluding mac OS 9.2) and of course, the beomothic apple lisa/macintosh XL

ease of use is more than just ease of use.

THnx
"well! that was easy!"

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The classic Mac OS is not the easiest OS to use, and it is inferior to most other operating systems in terms of multitasking, multiple user support, and crash protection.

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I like the computer behind the os. I like the fact that "it all works"

The champion of os's is Tos 2.06/3.06(they are fairly interchangeable)

os Stability Configurability useability
Tos completely stable, if using well written Gem programs, configurability I would give it 9/10 but it lacks 1 or 2 modern features & useability, I f***ed my Tos system up so many times but it is so simple & so easy to back up that it did'nt matter.

Apple 8.1 crashes on me a bit but allows a restart & only puts up a message"this comp wasn't shut down properly" , configurability, I am getting there but finding it taxing work(& I think I have got lazy in my old age), & useability, well not bad once you get to "Apple thinking" but then you are thinking like someone who built an Apple & not like yourself innit, so it is not a completely free thinking os, but at least it has it's rules & it's logic.

Windows stability, erm I don't think Windows makers have this word in thier dictionary, if you try to do something "unusual" like move a dll file Windows has a complete cow with you., configurability, is good I can make a pc do what I want it to, for about 2 day's b4 it starts trying to change settings to the way "it" thinks they should be, useability, well most ppl don't get this far as they are shown 1 way of using Windows, when u can use Windows in a multitude of differing fashions.

shaktiman

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Even given these things, it beats Windows hands down in terms of simplicity and logic, don't get me wrong, but there'e no way you would have classified my old iMac as "stable" or, well, even "fast" when running 9.x. It was pretty fast under 8.5, I guess, so maybe we can place some blame on 9. Stability was always an issue, though, so we can't blame 9 for that

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I have changed to "folder that is used by Application.

Cheers for the reply Dana.

Perhaps Dana, Trash & Cinemafia should get together & write a 68kmac os 8.1 instruction manual. I would buy it especially as opposed to:-

A) the os 8 manul
B) Mac os for dummys.

really I should put evry1's name?

err well maybe but either way a 68kmla manual would be good although I find that the things that were put in the complete begginers section to begginerish, doh I am a mix of different os's.

shaktiman

for example, with system 7, you can use Quacitime, and with system 7.5, it was included

Windows didn't really have a good integrated multimedia package (other than quicktime) until windows 98 (mac OS 8.5 almost)

When I ran Mac OS 9 and AppleWorks 5 with Quicktime 4 on my 7300 with 64 MB or RAM it ran like a dream, it was the best thing that could have been

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I would not personally describe macs with the phrase "ease of use"

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If you're coming to the Mac OS from a lifetime of another background, you have to have an open mind. If not, then you'll think that things are wierd and strange.

For a start, they don't need a "right click", no well designed program should.
They also use icons instead of extensions, a much better system.

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It's fixed in OS X; you can change what application opens a file in the Get Info panel.

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