Why Install OSX?

by Ken Prankerd

I canÕt use OSX properly yet so why am I going through a new learn ing curve? I am taking on part of the burden on blind faith.

Why? Because I hope that I will achieve more - greater volume output; more quality in my work, especially graphics with better tools such as PhotoShop 7; a greater range of expertise with say iTunes, or iPhoto, and still retain the use of Classic Mac OS which enables me to use all of my former OS 9 applications together with their saved documents and graphics, e-mail, address book entries etc. I am in fact now the user of two operating systems in one, the old and the new.

However, donÕt get lulled into complacency. To achieve the above you are going to have to work hard. You are going to be unfamiliar with where things are e.g. if I double click the Internet Connect icon on the Dock I get connected to my service provider (Paradise, Xtra etc.) but why does the icon on the top menu bar disappear? Ah, ha! No nothing is wrong. Try using the top menu line with the Ôphone icon. Connect through that and your icon remains and the elapsed time is shown.

Where is the OS 9 Òwindow blindÓ button. So far I havenÕt found it. I think it is replaced by a system which removes the window from the screen and places it on the ÒDOCKÓ- a new feature of OSX. I you want it back, double click its icon on the Dock and it reappears.

Yes, yes, but why go to all this expenditure of energy when you already have a perfectly good operating system. with which you are already familiar? Because nothing you are doing canÕt be done better and OSX can help you achieve that. DonÕt shut your mind to OSX. It is a big step up in getting better results with access to better new and better tools.