OsX or MacOS - which should I go with?

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:
Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??


Would you recommend a Windows newbie to try Windows 95 out? Or even
Windows 3.11?

I'd recommend OS X. Of course, playing around with OS 9 won't hurt you,
but there are differences and OS X is the present and the (near) future
OS on the mac.

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"Kevin McMurtrie "
wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

If you are buying a new machine, you don't have much choice.
If you are buying used, I would suggest staying when a machine
that can at least run OSX. MacOS has been discontinued for
quite a while, and it is getting hard to find commercial software
for it, and much of the shareware/freeware efforts have moved
away from MacOS. Finally, you can still run many MacOS apps
under the classic environment in OSX.

To put the question in Windows terms, if a person was
switching to windows, would you suggest they run XP or 2000,
or start with Windows 3.1? In the case of OSX, it is
truely a remarkable O/S in that you can run graphical
OSX programs, run older MacOS programs in classic, run all
kinds of UNIX and open source programs, and even run XP
programs using VirtualPC (which comes with Office Pro).
You also have a wide range of connectivity from the Internet,
talking to other Macs via IP or AppleTalk, using Windows
shares, acting as a Windows file server via Samba, joining
a Windows network, joining a UNIX network, and sharing
files via NFS. You also have connectivity to remote hosts
via telnet, SSH, and X-Windows. It is amazing what OSX
can do. I'd start there and start playing with some of
these amazing tools.

-john-

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"Kevin McMurtrie "
wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

Is that a trick question?

OS X.

There's no reason to even consider Mac OS 9 unless you have some legacy
apps that need it and won't run in Classic.

BTW, any Mac purchased in the past couple of years won't even boot into
OS 9.

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"Kevin McMurtrie "
wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

Thanks,

Kevin

If you buy a current system, they will only boot OSX - though they will
run OS9 apps through classic.

Hmm. Are you planning to buy a used computer? That is the only way you can
a system 9 machine. The two OSs are very different and eventually system 9
will be a footnote in computer history. I would go for OS X. The new mini
even makes the cost less of a factor.

IMHO

Kevin McMurtrie wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

Thanks,

Kevin

Kevin McMurtrie
wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

Absolutely go OS X. OS 9 is five years old and builds on 20 year old
technology. It is nowhere near as stable, and (almost) no software is
developed for it any more. And OS X is an incredibly much richer and
better environment IMHO, even though I always (well, nearly) loved ol'
Mac OS as well.

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/Z

In article . com,
"Kevin McMurtrie "
wrote:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??

You don't have a choice, you can't buy a Mac that boots into OS9 any longer as
far as I know.

Either way, you don't want to run OS9 when OSX is here.

--
Sandman[.net]

Amen!

Go with OS X (The present one is 10.3.8, I think). However, OS 10.4
(Tiger) is due out soon (U.S. ~$129).

Best,

Conrad


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Conrad

Entity Kevin McMurtrie spoke thus:

Hi. I am about to make the switch from Windoze to Mac. Should I jump
right into OsX, or should I start with the original MacOS 9.*??
X is so radically different from 9 there would be no point 'learning' on 9.

-- Gnarlie
http://Gnarlodious.com/