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Re: Speaking of "Switch" bullshit... by Lufteufel 03/06/2003, 9:50pm PST
Motherhead wrote:

Mac OS 10.xx is essentially a beautifully well executed GUI


Someone once said the Aqua interface looks "like some aging actress spilled her costume jewelry and prescription medication all over my desktop." I'd say that's about right. Gratuitous alpha-blending and throbbing widgets do not necessarily make for a good GUI.

sitting on an FreeBSD implementation called "Darwin."


Darwin is no more BSD than Cygwin is Linux. OS X has a fairly good BSD compatability layer, and that's it. The kernel is a crufty, buggy hack designed to run all kinds of legacy "Carbon" Mac crap while still allowing some semblance of modern OS features such as pre-emptive multi-tasking--which NT has had for most of a decade.

FoK wrote:

Other than that, Mark is correct: Except for games Macs are terrific for artists, daily computing and (now) developing.


If by "terrific" you mean "not substantially better than a Wintel/Linux system costing less than half as much," then I agree completely.
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