Live preview with “Spaces” on the dock would have been nice. Changing wallpapers and default colours are things many users do first after install… And just because the author does not like it, it does not have any impact on this great OS. □ To get serious again, I cannot imagine that a default wallpaper does say anything about an OS’s quality. It’s very short sighted (read: it does not concern long time aspects).Īnd changing the wallpaper is a lot of hard work, I know, you have to re-wire the bytes in memory by hand. The review does not touch much of the OS features, you can see this from the chapter headings. #FIREFOX QUANTUM REVIEW MAC OS X MAC OS X#In my opinion, the review gave a good overview about visible features and those that may be new to Mac OS X 10.4 users. The issues you’re having sound more like personal preference rather than hardcore reliance on something because there are no alternatives in that given area. Pages is a great alternative to Word, but then again, Office 2008 might prove my ‘Microsoft scepticism’ wrong. IIRC there was actually a company, I think it was Samsung, who put out a CRT but it was significantly slimmer than a standard CRT, almost that of LCD.Īs for the rest, time to move on there are replacements out there. The move to LCD’s in the main wasn’t the result of ‘better technology’ but because it made computers more ascetically pleasing. LCD the issue of washed out colour still exists in LCD. THe reason I thought it might have sounded rude was the abrupt nature in which I asked the question. #FIREFOX QUANTUM REVIEW MAC OS X PRO#Heck, I still use a 22″ Diamond Pro CRT monitor because it is vastly superior to newer LCDs. Remember, just because an OS is newer does not mean it is better. I enjoy working with older apps to name a few: Acta, More, Clockwork, WordPerfect, my Epson printer, FullWrite, Loki, Netscape 4.8 (for sentimental reasons and boy is it fast) and Outlook Express (prefer it to Mail). I am sure that advertisers and some of the readers might not like waiting, but if the end result is worth the wait why not? I really don’t think most of the readers would mind that much. If I ran a site like OSNews I would much rather be characterized as being “late out of the gate” but having insightful, serious content worthy of the limited time many people have to read than to be like everybody else and publish anything that comes across the desk because it meets the time frame and an expected interest level. Some of the material I read (long term studies and various research articles) take months or years to write, I think waiting 30 days for an OS or application review is reasonable. Not everything needs to be published immediately. Just as journalists are expected to report information in a timely fashion, it is also part of their responsibility to weigh the pros and cons of each piece they intend to publish. How many stories have we read on this site (amongst others) that are light on the facts, obscure relevant details, or just ignore the truth just to get something “out the door”, and later when the facts or the other side of the story comes out, the original story usually turns out to be a waste of time to read. The story will have value, it just won’t have the immediacy that journalists and advertisers want, and I think in many cases that immediacy is overhyped. I cannot speak for anyone else but myself, but I would much rather wait 30 to 60 days and read what someone who has taken the time to actually use the OS/hardware/software and evaluate its features rather than write a piece that is nothing more than a blog entry or an extension of the “new features” sheet from the marketing department. Timeliness is important, but I also think that timeliness is more often than not abused by many journalists (and I understand this because I worked with journalists prior to getting into IT), where it is more important to “get the story first” than it is to print something worth reading.
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