Zeldman: OSX Blues II
by Volker Weber
After losing another 48 hours to the perplexing misbehavior of OS X 10.2.1 Jaguar, we find that it is unusable on our dual processor G4 and we will have to content ourselves with OS 9 until we buy our next Mac.
We gave it our best shot. Dropped wads of dough on OS X compatible software upgrades. Spent hours tinkering with preferences, moving files and folders, downloading and configuring OS X browsers and other applications, and learning the ins and outs of window and file management under the new OS.
We updated DragThing, Euroda, Transmit, Fetch, Mozilla 1.1, Netscape 7, Tex-Edit Plus, Typeit4Me, PageSpinner, and Photoshop 7. We installed Chimera (lovely) and Opera 5 for OS X (needs work). Created keyboard macros and custom shortcuts. We learned to appreciate Column Views, Dock popups, and other OS X niceties. Began to think today was the day we’d start working excusively in Apple’s new operating system.
We nearly made it.
Then, like outnumbered combatants, one application after another began unexpectedly quitting. Poof, poof, poof. Down went Photoshop, DragThing, Mozilla, Transmit.
