Does Anyone Else Miss the Good Ol' Days of Mac?

[Ci7]

Without the OS, basically you're saying that a computer with an Intel processor, Corsair RAM, Seagate hard drive, ATI video card, etc makes it special? Except for the fact that it costs twice as much for the same off the shelf hardware, I don't see what's so special. :p

you forget one thing ............. the apple in the computer is legendary

it inslave the owner and make him worship apple and there iway

that it

the Apple conspiracy theory

[winrez]

Why does nobody remember this, Pre OS X MacOS sucked, and so did early OS X.

I remember the crappy iMacs that I was forced to used because the company was Mac only I would lose at least 10 hours a week by the mac locking up in photoshop or adobe go live and then having to spend 4 min trying to find a paperclip so I could reset the Mac

If I had a dime for everytime I bent a paperclip to reset the iMac I would be as rich as Bill Gates

(I eventually found a bondi blue iMac at a rummage sale for $25 and got some revenge on those terrible machines with a half stick of dynomite)

[PyX]

I don't have a positive idea of older Macs either. Like 9 years ago, I started using my first Mac ever at school. The floppy drive kept on giving me an error, I kept on seeing bombs everywhere, Claris Works kept on crashing and being uber slow... the mouse kept on having just one button :p I was really tired x_X

What I see is that it changed for the good. Otherwise, we wouldn't have two iMacs here, and I wouldn't want a MacBook.

[ikonizer]

There's really only 3 phases Apple has gone through.

1: On top of the world!

2: Defeated, beaten down, lost.

3: BACK ON TOP AGAIN!

I kinda miss the second generation of those days. I was the ONLY one I knew that stuck with Apple and knew they would get back on top.

Oh, and as far as the "better" OS wars, Mac used to be better than Windows for only one reason. Windows 98. After that, it just became a matter of preference on how you wanted your interface to look.

[Quillz]

There's really only 3 phases Apple has gone through.

1: On top of the world!

2: Defeated, beaten down, lost.

3: BACK ON TOP AGAIN!

I kinda miss the second generation of those days. I was the ONLY one I knew that stuck with Apple and knew they would get back on top.

Oh, and as far as the "better" OS wars, Mac used to be better than Windows for only one reason. Windows 98. After that, it just became a matter of preference on how you wanted your interface to look.

See, I disagree. The classic Mac OS, in my opinion, was crap. It lacked so many necessities, such as protected memory, true multitasking, etc. Apple knew this too, as is evident with their struggles to get both A/UX and Copland out the door. They recognized early on that the Mac OS really needed to be modernized. So, as I stated in a previous post, Apple eventually had to turn to a third party to get their own OS modernized. They were unable to do it on their own.

And this is just one of several reasons why Windows 3 dwarfed Mac OS in 1990. Because again, Windows was on the dominant hardware platform of the day, and it offered the things that consumers were looking far. Had Windows been as sloppily put together as parts of the Mac OS was, there's little chance it would have succeeded as it did. It went to the top because it deserved to be there.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Apple had a crap OS and crap management, hence why all the OS projects failed (Copland would have been interesting, ideas from it's development lived on, like Classic)

[ikonizer]

See, I disagree. The classic Mac OS, in my opinion, was crap. It lacked so many necessities, such as protected memory, true multitasking, etc. Apple knew this too, as is evident with their struggles to get both A/UX and Copland out the door. They recognized early on that the Mac OS really needed to be modernized. So, as I stated in a previous post, Apple eventually had to turn to a third party to get their own OS modernized. They were unable to do it on their own.

And this is just one of several reasons why Windows 3 dwarfed Mac OS in 1990. Because again, Windows was on the dominant hardware platform of the day, and it offered the things that consumers were looking far. Had Windows been as sloppily put together as parts of the Mac OS was, there's little chance it would have succeeded as it did. It went to the top because it deserved to be there.

It had nothing to do with the actual technology behind the OS that made Apple fail in the 90's. It was because Apple locked up their software and demanded licenses and royalties to develop on. Microsoft introduced Windows and allowed free development for the platform, on top of that they dropped the price for the OS by comparison. However, the real reason Windows was "accepted" was because Microsoft managed to allow generic hardware to be assembled by upstart companies and used with Windows for cheap, therefore nearly everyone who bought a computer in the store from then on out was buying Windows, period. And, after a while, everyone became used to Windows, especially when businesses and schools started adopting it in the early to mid 90's.

Mac OS was no more worse back in the day than Windows was, security and stability wise. Steve Jobs came back to the company and reinvented it into what we know it as today. By the way, both Microsoft as well as Apple steal and copy ideas from a lot of sources, including upstart companies as well as Unix / Linux. Apple has just become better (and craftier) at implementing those ideas than Microsoft has.

[Berserk87]

without the ipod where would apple be?

[LTD]

without the ipod where would apple be?

You really should be asking . . .

Where would Apple be without Steve Jobs?

[Quillz]

You really should be asking . . .

Where would Apple be without Steve Jobs?

Likely bankrupt. Unless they managed to actually ship Copland or some other modern OS.