It's been about 1 1/2 weeks since I last posted and I'm still impressed with the overall speed of this Mac and delighted with the performance and speed of the browsers under the Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It's as fast, if not faster than my PC. This is something Apple NEVER got right in the past, regardless of the machine specs, and I suspect that the Motorola PPC chip may have been the culprit. Intel gets it right.

What I don't like are apps continually quitting on me, something I NEVER experienced with XP other than with the buggy Adobe Acrobat.

I also experienced a couple of weird things. Three times, the entire system, including the finder, went haywire on me. I could mouse around, but I'm not apple to click on anything or perform any tasks. An option/command/esc wouldn't even give me the option to relaunch the finder. The only way out was to manually restart by depressing the start button.

What's even odder is that two of those times, the Mac made this strange drumroll sound as it froze up (well not completely frozen, because I could still use my mouse and keyboard.

This behavior certainly takes away from an otherwise good experience and tells me that OS X is still full of bugs. Apple has had more than enough time to perfect this OS and these things are inexcusable. Why is it that XP doesn't have these problems?

The bottom line is if one needs or prefers to work on a Mac, Intel is the way to go if it fits into your budget in the near future.

By the way? Where is Brad and how is he doing? I've been meaning to ask this.

Sadaharu Oh

Brad has been in mystery mode around here. He last posted in late spring of this year which was preceded by a lengthy absence. I have not been over to Phil's site Shalome Place in a while were Brad had been a fixture. Brad had stopped posting there in the spring. My best guess he is angling on a way to get Ann Coulter to move to Seattle.

As for fast browser's you should try Camino. I had used Camino exclusively in the past because it is the fastest browser for the Mac. Unfortunately with the release of Tiger the Camino developers decided to change the way Camino functions to a global history browser like all the rest. Camino was a direct conversion of Netscape/Mozilla without all the bells and whistles. Why I dropped it was they changed the Go menu from session history to global history essentially making it function the same as Safari Firefox IE and the rest.

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What I don't like are apps continually quitting on me

Welcome to my hell...

I swear, every time GoLive quits on me, I'm ready to put my fist through the monitor.

Oh OS X is definitely still full of bugs. I don't see how it could be anything else. It still seems to me that the more I use the computer, the flakier it gets. If there's some nursemaiding that needs to be done to forestall this, I wish they'd automate it.

Right now, my strategy has been to just frequently RESTART at the first sign of anything. Hey, it's a cure from the old days, but it's still the only thing that works. I just don't want to hear any X-Man say that you don't have to restart the Mac now as much as you did during the legacy. You do if you want it to work right.

I just wish there was some sort of onboard system thing where as performance degraded, the OS would alert you with a course of action (which I guarantee you would have to be restart)... but you might save work this way.

I also wish Spotlight would have some way to figure out when it needs to re-index. I really can't friggin' STAND when I search for something I know is there, and the system can't find it. That's among the most irritating things of all time. Here we have a system that's supposed to be GOOD at that kind of server-shit, and it fails.

I wish I could infuriate the Mac Faithful the way Ann Coulter infuriates liberals. Lord knows I've tried. I thought I was the master baiter... did you read "Godless?" It's an absolutely brilliant work of provocateuring. I want to marry her. She doesn't need to be right or wrong... just stir the pot. Just question those things that nobody questions... just be insensitive to all the things everyone is so horribly sensitive about. A woman after my own heart.