Lots of good answers here. All I will add is that Mac OSX was dog slow for years, from Rhapsody through till 10.2 (which I still thought was slow but was at lea

Lots of good answers here. All I will add is that Mac OSX was dog slow for years, from Rhapsody through till 10.2 (which I still thought was slow but was at least usable). BeOS running on awful hardware felt lightning fast and responsive in comparison. Of course, Apple without His Steveness would be an entirely different proposition