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Yeah, Apple's 90's marketing was ass. But I loved every last Mac I owned during that decade. Apple had overall high product quality but their focus was lacking
by danilocampos 16y ago
Yeah, Apple's 90's marketing was ass. But I loved every last Mac I owned during that decade.
Apple had overall high product quality but their focus was lacking and they weren't terribly ballsy. They had a distinct feeling of running on the fumes of the Mac's initial success. But it was (and is) a sufficiently great product that those fumes informed an OS that, from a user perspective, remained the best. Mac OS got long in the tooth, but I'd still take it over Win95/98/NT any day.
- vetinari 16y agoI don't know about you, but the things I do not miss are putting spaces in extension names to reorder them (at boot time, they were loaded alphabetically and there were often conflicts, if the order was "incorrect"), manually setting up, how much RAM can a specific app use, or rebooting with virtual memory on/off, depending on which app I wanted to run. I still remember, that reading websites with table-layouts on the only somewhat standards-compliant browser (IE for Mac) was exercise in frustration. Both windows (95/98) and macs had their share of shortcomings, you just had to pick, which set you can tolerate.
- philwelch 16y agoWindows had the same problem, except instead of having conflicts between extensions (which everyone understood were extensions to the operating system), installing applications could cause conflicts. Personally, I never reordered extension names to avoid conflicts.