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cactus
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6 Months ago26 Jan 2010 3:20 pm |
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As always, it depends what you want to do with it.
Some software is MS OS or Linux only - for instrument control for example. I can see the attraction of having a notebook running a different OS to my desktop so I could run stuff that's incompatible with Mac OS.
Incidentally, why run Microsuck Word when OpenOffice, NeoOffice are FREE and totally compatible. I hope you don't run the related IE Bugware browser.
On the other hand if it's your main workstation, then a Mac OS machine seems the way to go, but I'd probably advise you to go with OSX.
Mac OS 9 was great, possibly the best ever Mac OS so far, but I was finding that compatibility with the internet was fading by the time I upgraded to OS X. Most browsers stopped being upgraded a while back. Same with plugins like Flash Player. Many Flash presentations simply didn't run on the versions available for OS9 so you start to feel disenfranchised.
So if connectivity on the go is an issue, a Mac OS9 machine will be stuck in a time-warp with obsolete software. Some sites may stop wanting you to connect with them as certificates etc. will be out of date. Pretty well everyone will have to convert from IVP4 to IVP6 very soon, as the IP numbers are running out. Not sure how well OS9 software will cope with that.
With a little dedication, you can restore many features to OSX so it looks and behaves more like OS9. So not all bad.
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cactus
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6 Months ago31 Jan 2010 2:44 pm |
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Well the best version of Word was 5.1. Small, efficient and unbloated by thousands of 'features' that most people don't use. Word 5.1 would run nicely in OS 9.
However, connecting to the internet from your main computer is incredibly useful. You can check facts, URLs, even spelling, almost instantly as part of another job. You don't need the internet, any more than you need a computer. Much of what a computer does could be done with pencil and paper, a slide rule and graph paper, a harmonica or wind-up gramophone and a shelf of books.
I didn't have access to either computers or the internet for at least half of my working life. Calculators were rare, expensive (thousands of pounds) and suitcase-sized until pocket-sized models appeared towards the end of my postgraduate studies.
The point is that one doesn't need most of the electronic gizmos we take for granted. It's just that life is more pleasant, easier, more productive - well different anyway - if we have them. Same with the internet.
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