Frankly, they can charge $149 for it for all I care. It comes with iTunes and iPhoto, and Windoze comes with BSOD.
When I said "some of us were hoping to have a passing resemblance to Mac OS 9", I meant in terms of the care and attention given to user-interface considerations. A lot of Aqua's user-interface details seem completely arbitrary and weird. Sure, some are clever and good, like the zoom button.
But for Mac OS X to be "unlike anything else out there" is not necessarily a good thing.
When we argue about pinstripes-vs.-brushed metal, this argument has an underlying badness to it: Why are those the choices? Why does that creaky clone of System 7, Windows, have more user-configurability than Mac OS X? What do you mean, I can't select a different system font? I can't select anything other than "blue or gray" button highlights?
Anyone remember Workplace Shell under OS/2? To change the font of something - anything - you opened a font palette, dragged the font you wanted and dropped it on that thing. You could also drag and drop colors.
Macintosh used to be a paragon of human-factors design. Now it looks like a hodgepodge of trendy widgets. Brushed metal, feh! As if that made any difference at all.
When I said "some of us were hoping to have a passing resemblance to Mac OS 9", I meant in terms of the care and attention given to user-interface considerations. A lot of Aqua's user-interface details seem completely arbitrary and weird. Sure, some are clever and good, like the zoom button.
But for Mac OS X to be "unlike anything else out there" is not necessarily a good thing.
When we argue about pinstripes-vs.-brushed metal, this argument has an underlying badness to it: Why are those the choices? Why does that creaky clone of System 7, Windows, have more user-configurability than Mac OS X? What do you mean, I can't select a different system font? I can't select anything other than "blue or gray" button highlights?
Anyone remember Workplace Shell under OS/2? To change the font of something - anything - you opened a font palette, dragged the font you wanted and dropped it on that thing. You could also drag and drop colors.
Macintosh used to be a paragon of human-factors design. Now it looks like a hodgepodge of trendy widgets. Brushed metal, feh! As if that made any difference at all.
