# I just got a new (Mac) computer system... and it is SWEET!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 16, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-new-mac-computer-system-and-it-is-sweet/188881 "2003-07-16T14:16:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-new-mac-computer-system-and-it-is-sweet/188881/21 "2003-07-18T20:01:41Z")

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> And, yes, Bittersweet you are correct to a point. The Older versions of MacOS were pretty bad but if you try OSX you will likely never experience a crash given that it runs on a UNIX backbone. OS9 was, however, absolutely horrid when it came to stability.

Hasn’t been my experience. There have been some buggy unstable releases of MacOS, to be sure: 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, 8.0, 9.2…but 9.0.4 is a log way from “absolutely horrid” stability-wise. It’s better than Windows95 / Windows98 / WindowsME, in fact.

I’m still waiting for OS X to catch up. Oh, sure, the OS is solid as a rock and never crashes, but the individual apps do, and frankly I don’t much care if it’s FileMaker or the operating system that died on me if my environment goes down while I’m in the middle of doing field definitions. All in all, my ancient 7100 running 8.6 is a more trustworthy environment than 10.2 on a G4 tower and so I Timbuktu into the 7100 to do my field defs.

I’m upgrading nevertheless as soon as there’s a dual-processor G5 PowerBook to upgrade to. With that much crunching power I can run MacOS 8 in a Basilisk window at decent speed if I have to.

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**Author:** ![Zenham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a5b964/32.png) [@Zenham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenham)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-new-mac-computer-system-and-it-is-sweet/188881/22 "2003-07-18T20:39:38Z")

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Congratulations! I hope you enjoy it.

With the same money, I went out and bought six P3-500 notebooks today, plus made my car payment. 🙂

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-new-mac-computer-system-and-it-is-sweet/188881/23 "2003-07-19T16:42:17Z")

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If you’re having to haul around six PC laptops in order to get your work done, no wonder you need a car to carry them around in 😛

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**Author:** ![chattywine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5daacb/32.png) [@chattywine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chattywine)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-got-a-new-mac-computer-system-and-it-is-sweet/188881/24 "2003-07-19T18:03:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Tygr \*  
> \*\*Just wait. Sometime in the next six months someone is gonna give me $3000 and I’m gonna git the new dual-proc G5 w/ Panther OSX, and a 22-in. display and an iSub and an iPod.
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> It’ll happen - I have faith. After all, who do you know that’s more deserving than I? \*\*

ME TOO! ME TOO!

Though my G4 imac works like a charm the G5’s HUMMINA!!

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