[geeks] Recommendations?

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Sunday, April 7, 2002, at 09:29 , Gary Nichols wrote:

> Same here Bill - I have a G4/500 with 10.1.3 and it is F-A-S-T.  It is 
> not
> uncommon for me to have about 20 apps open, downloading 100 or so pics 
> via
> USB and editing video all at the same time.  Did I mention it's 
> purdy?  :)
> Gives my x86 P3/800 a run for it's money.

I might as well chime in - my G4 500MP is stable as a rock - (it started 
life as a single 500, the MP upgrade was absurdly easy!)  In all the 
time I've been using OS X, it nas *never* crashed (ala BSOD) on me.  
Once, I had something go horribly wrong with quicktime, so I did an 
orderly shutdown/restart.

OS X gives me a consumer-level system that is as stable as the Solaris 
systems I use daily.  Having lived through every Mac system release 
since the beginning, I have to say that OS X is my reward for the wait.

The last good version of Windoze was WFG 3.1.1 - I liked that release, I 
could tweak it to be really stable.  It was also before "active desktop" 
and all the other BS that made Windows such a pig.

-Pete