My little son 'William' is now 9 months old and is doing really well. My daughter 'Aimee' who is now...
My little son 'William' is now 9 months old and is doing really well. My daughter 'Aimee' who is now 2yrs old is getting more active by the day. Will be back soon with lots of new reviews!
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I use an Mac for work purposes and a PC at home. On the Mac, time is of great importance and every feature that saves time saves money and there are quite a few great time saving features on Mac OS X that do just that!
If you are a PC user and currently use Windows XP then the new operating for the Apple Mac will be very appealing to you. It is very similar in many ways to that of Windows XP. One of the main differences that Mac OS X has which is one of my favourite features is that it has what is called a dock. This is a bar that can sit either at the bottom of the screen or on either side and you can use it to add in short cuts to all your software. Also if you have folders that you access alot and you don't want to keep trying to find them all the time then you can add them to the dock. All you then have to do is go to the dock, click on the folder and there it is. This is a great time saver. Another great feature I found out recently is if you are saving a large document or making a PDF and you want to carry on working on something else on the computer you still can. This was never possible in Mac OS 9. This feature is available by pressing one of the F keys at the top of the keyboard - I only found this out by chance myself.
The only real disadvantage is that it is very different from OS 9 and does take a while to get use to. I think it is an advantage that the Mac is now being made to look more like a PC as I think this will increase its popularity and maybe even PC users could now easily use Macs.
As with all new operating systems it is best to make sure that the software you have installed on your computer is compatible with the new operating system before purchasing this. When I installed this onto my Mac I had only one software compatibility problem and that was with a very old archiving program I had been using - other than that it was all ok. I have resolved my compatibility problem by not spending out money on a new archiving program but by creating 2 start-up discs on the one computer - there for on the Mac at the moment I have OS X and OS 9 installed but on different discs so as to not interfer with each other. This is very easy to set up but it does mean that if you are working in OS X and you then need to access your archive files you do then need to go to your startup disc, select OS 9 and restart your computer and then do the same to get back to OS X once you have done this.
Also on OS X it is much more user friendly. It lets you organise your files like digital images, e-books etc. in a much more logical manner which are easily accessible.Also recently I discovered OSX comes with a game of chess which I have to say is very addictive.
When I first saw OS X I was like O' my god this is completely different - but it only took me a few days before I got the hang of it and could then see all the positive things about it. I would certainly recommend this to anyone!
I love Macs and am currently using OS 9.1, although I have to use a PC at work (running Windows XP). The dock sounds very like the Microsoft Office tool bar. I'd like to upgrade to OS X but have a few concerns. You don't mention the price and I wonder how much RAM it need to run? Also, can you run OS 9 apps in OS X or do you have to reboot? A bit more information would be useful. Anne x
ben-lloyd 29.04.2005 10:07
Have you tried installing OS9 onto the OSX partition? I believe you can make them co-exist so that you can run legacy programs without having to reboot into another partition.... ;)
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