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The Path to OS X And so now we get the bad news. If the debut,
the jazzy interface, the slick feeling of a new OS and just the very
existance of the system was our warm fuzzy, then prepare for the cold,
wet, squishy realizations to follow. That we're on a course to debut
a not-ready-for-primetime system on an unsuspecting (and largely unforgiving)
audience and it might be LATE. Awful feeling #3: Amid the speculation that the system will be sub
par and stripped of some usefulness, we get trickling word (through
alert readers of several sites, such as the As
The Apple Turns show) that there is a "backorder" email
slipping around. Awful feeling #4: The bare bones fact that most comfortable, mid-range
users will be holding out until OSX.5 (or OS X.V?). The reasoning is:
why grab a first copy of a system that won't have many apps, be buggy
as hell, that even Apple won't provide all the goodies for? Awful feeling #5: That all of the above are true and the big special debut of Apple's next generation operating system will be an ugly-sounding gurgle amid it's tardiness and overall weak stage presence, bolstered by a lackluster show of support from the people Apple depends on to buy it. Worst case scenario reccomendation: Install it on a work machine and play. Give it your own stress tests on files and in an environment you really don't care about so that when the first major update (.2 or .5) hits, you're savvy and up on everything from the command line to the dock's quirks.
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