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May 12, 2003

The last one in the pool.

I dare you to hear the sound of my feet dragging now. This is it. No more excuses, no more “maybe laters”. Today officially marked my first full day of using OS X. None of that booting into Jaguar to diddle around a little bit and then jumping back into the comfortable lap of OS 9. No more complaining about what application doesn’t feel quite right or what functionally is missing. Ok, maybe a little complaining. To be honest, I was missing way too many cool things by not using OS X all day, every day. NetNewsWire. iTunes music sharing. AppleScript Studio. Safari. NewtSync. DCL. Not that my world is perfect. Not by along shot. But it’s a darn sight closer to my standards than it was a few dot revisions ago. What’s still driving me nuts? I shall elucidate thusly.

So much for day one. I realize that many of these issues have been around for a long time and have been griped about in dozens of other forums. Coming late to the game and seeing that many of the issues that I initially had with OS X still exist makes me wonder. I think the slow migration to OS X is justified for a lot of people, including myself. I feel like I’m having to compromise a lot of things that worked very well under previous iterations of the operating system. I’m not looking back, but I’m not completely satisfied with where I am either. I’ll just keep letting you know how I’m adjusting.

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.

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