Ode to OS Ten

I love OS Ten. It's smooth and velvety, and is filled with wonderful new things!

I haven't used a screen saver since OS 6 something because I don't have the patience for them, but OS 10's screen effects are heavenly! You gotta try the built-in Cosmos effects or, better yet, your own folder of pics collected from space.com. They seem to undulate, slowly panning in or out, thrilling in their hint of what's out there, at the edge of our imaginations.

Have you watched the Dock? That magnification effect is annoying only when someone else is doing it. And the childish bouncing for attention when a particular app wants attention... there are some things only a mother (or father) can love about a child.... But what a handy place to stick an icon, and how easy to see contents of a folder or to get info!

Fast! Quick! Speed! All synonomous with the how fast an application loads. Of course, if you like a slower route there's always the option of launching something in OS 9, but then you loose the glory of Ten.

Don't even need some applications which served as staples in previous systems for so many years. Imagine, no more extensions or control panels or inits to wreak havoc with an operating system! Their metamorphasis into applications have created a wonderful environment on my desktop! If I want to see something crash, I can now remienise with Classic, without affecting my work! Watch a reboot without my beautiful desktop converting to black, then a happy face!

I've noted some people have been busy creating hacks to convert my wonderful startup apple back to the happy face... not that I don't like the happy face, but the apple is, well, exciting! New, startup, no face, pure pleasure.

And for those errant non-Mac tendencies some apps have of putting preferences someplace where they don't belong, OS Ten chorales them all into one consistent place. Thank you, Apple!

The Print Center is wonderful! I can use either of my two computers, connected differently, and can save different configurations for each to print! The Image Capture and iPhoto are powerful. I was debating which word processor to give in to, but find TextEdit a wonderful remedy for my needs.

Wish I had something BlueTooth, as I'm curious to try it.

In a folder's window, I now have options I've never had before (on a Mac), with column views and an customizable tool bar. And it's a mini browser, allowing be to go back, then forward, and shows pictures of some of the documents, and I can open multiple windows of the same folder and see the same thing in different views.

Okay, okay, it's a socialistic environment. Or, maybe it's a nut case. It's delusional! It insists there are multiple users, and wants me, the owner and only user, to be the "administrator" and have my own house. It insists "root" has "privileges", ignoring the fact that I am the human here.

But it included Terminal wrapped with its core applications, and hid a bit of power in Get Info. Maybe Apple trusts me, after all, to help myself on my own computer? And that's just the operating system!

Maybe I'll find time to explore some of the applications working in OS Ten? Will they be as awe-inspiring? Or will Apple ever have twain for OS ten?

Now, the Display. Gorgeous! Jaw-dropping! Steady, vibrant color, crisp, clear image: None of those headache-inducing fluctuations. Flat. Clear bottom, to see what's behind it. And so much more room on my desk!

I wonder…will it take Mr. Gates as long to copy Ten as it took to copy Mac UI?

aloha!
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