[Discussion] [MAC]

[Joseph J. Hansen]

November 9, 2009

Don,

Snow Leopard (10.6) does remediate a lot of Leopard's weak points.   
For $29 ($25 from Amazon.com) and with very easy installation, it's  
well worthwhile.

As you may know, Mac OS X is basically a big UNIX shell.  If what you  
miss most about OS/2 is getting under the hood, you might like to read  
_Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger_ by Dave Taylor.  It partly explains  
how OS X works and is full of OS X UNIX hints and tweaks, as well as  
replacements for some of the OS X apps that you may not like.  It  
doesn't presuppose any prior knowledge of UNIX .  Amazon has it for  
$13.75.  See:

    http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Unix-Mac-OS-Tiger/dp/0596009151/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257807169&sr=1-1

Best regards, Joe Hansen


On Nov 7, 2009, at 8:29 PM, Bob Wonderly wrote:

> I'm about 18 months into using my Mac running OS X 10.5... I  
> "never" (almost) shut it down. The few times I do are when I get it  
> hung so hard nothing else works (very seldom does this happen) and  
> when it wants me to allow software upgrades that require restart.  
> And once in a g-r-e-a-t while to freshen it up.
>
> In other words it runs for weeks at a time, sleeping when I am not  
> using it. The same as I did my Linux boxes and OS/2 boxes before that.
>
> D Burch wrote:
>> Well not a year in and I still miss OS/2 and am slowly losing touch  
>> with Windows use. I still seem to think OS/2 first, MAC second.
>> I have found nothing to compare to PMView for image management or  
>> Filestar for basic file management. I find Finder flakey and  
>> doesn't even come close to the WPS.
>> There appear to be memory leaks or locks as over time the available  
>> memory decreases to about .5 GB but never goes lower. A reboot  
>> restores it to over 1.0 GB.
>> Close applications doesn't alway close them so you have to keep an  
>> eye on the Active lights under the application in the Dock.
>> Older hardware like scanners, printers and some newer is usually  
>> detected at the machine level, but the software doesn't respond,  
>> hasn't been kept current with the OS, etc.
>> I guess MAC users tend to shut their machines down daily, maybe I  
>> should start.
>> For the casual user I think there is a sense of mindlessness. That  
>> may not be the right term, but after nearly 20 years of becoming  
>> quite intimate with the inner workings of my machine, I find that  
>> the MAC approach to computing is similar to MS in that you have to  
>> "trust" that everything will work properly as many of the  
>> preference settings are lacking.
>> I have read that the version of the OSX I have - Leopard is not the  
>> finest example of OSX ever written, so I may spring for the upgrade  
>> and see if it helps.
>> Don Burch
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