Periodically I hear about the "triumphant return" of Steve Jobs to Apple and how he revitalized the company. First with the iMac, then OS X and so forth... basically that Apple progressly becoming an inferior company before he saved the day.
But more and more I see iMac and eMac owners posting hardware problems on the Troubleshooting forum, and comments from experienced technicians that such-and-such a problem is quite common with that particular model. These owners are now talking about throwing these machines in the garbage and buying new... while I still chug-chug along trouble-free on my pre-Jobs beige G3 (now with dvd-writing capability!)
Plus, even when I tested Jaguar on a 1 Ghz machine, it was still nowhere near as zippy as OS 9 on my beige. And let's not even mention how Gawd-awful slow 10.0 was!
Yes, I love the look of OS X and use it about 99% of the time now, but it's still no speed demon. And it's still not flawless. I still have the occasionally freeze, and applications that refuse to open.
In my experience I had fewer problems with OS 9.
So I wonder... as the hardware starts to fail, and the bugs in the software are still being plucked out, can we still say Jobs is a saviour?
But more and more I see iMac and eMac owners posting hardware problems on the Troubleshooting forum, and comments from experienced technicians that such-and-such a problem is quite common with that particular model. These owners are now talking about throwing these machines in the garbage and buying new... while I still chug-chug along trouble-free on my pre-Jobs beige G3 (now with dvd-writing capability!)
Plus, even when I tested Jaguar on a 1 Ghz machine, it was still nowhere near as zippy as OS 9 on my beige. And let's not even mention how Gawd-awful slow 10.0 was!

So I wonder... as the hardware starts to fail, and the bugs in the software are still being plucked out, can we still say Jobs is a saviour?