# Mac Users: upgrade to OSX? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 9, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195 "2001-01-09T19:16:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/1 "2001-01-09T19:16:37Z")
Steve announced at MWSF that OSX will be available March 24th…are you planning on upgrading…yes…no…undecided? Me: i have a Beige G3 desktop with a CPU upgrade to 466, running OS 8.6 (196 MB ram) Technically, I think that my G3 will run OSX…but I can’t see a compelling reason to upgrade yet. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/2 "2001-01-09T19:20:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by beagledave \* > \*\*Steve announced at MWSF that OSX will be available March 24th…are you planning on upgrading…yes…no…undecided? > > Me: i have a Beige G3 desktop with a CPU upgrade to 466, running OS 8.6 (196 MB ram) > > Technically, I think that my G3 will run OSX…but I can’t see a compelling reason to upgrade yet. \*\* I’d wait for about six months after release, if only to give them a chance to get all the bugs out. ---
**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:** [January 9, 2001, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/3 "2001-01-09T20:51:07Z")
I have the public beta on a partition, and I suppose I’ll buy the version 1 of X to install over it. I don’t anticipate booting into X as my primary OS any time soon though. Hell, I haven’t even embraced _ **9** _ yet! (I have, however, learned how to make the damn trash can and drive icons appear on the X Desktop where they belong–and I don’t mean a bunch of aliases, either.) ---
**Author:** ![soulsling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@soulsling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulsling)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2001, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/4 "2001-01-09T22:35:53Z")
I’m just getting used to 9.0.4, and I like it. It seems pretty stable to me, and somehow more fluid than 8.6 was, though I was very happy with 8.1 when it was out. OSX seems interesting, I haven’t tried the beta, but I’ve been following the sites about it and watching what others have done with it. Neat. Very clean IMO. I like the idea that it’s going to run on a new flavor of Unix, and the open source idea is welcoming. [ResExcellence](http://www.resexcellence.com) has some nice ideas for customizing it as well, though I haven’t tried anything on 9 yet, I will on OSX after I see how it fares with others first. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/5 "2001-01-10T00:38:50Z")
I’d like to upgrade, but I’m gonna have to get a new Mac first. My poor old trusty beige 6500/250 just ain’t up to it! I desperately want to try it out, though, partly because it looks cool, and partly because I suspect there’s a little caffiene-soaked-UNIX-geek-wannabe lurking inside me somewhere just waiting to get out ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/6 "2001-01-10T01:16:57Z")
I plan on waiting a little bit until the initial bugs and compatability problems are ironed out, then upgrade. I definitely want to get my geeky mitts on that baby! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2001, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/7 "2001-01-10T04:50:41Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/8 "2001-01-11T01:22:41Z")
Not for a while at least. I’ve seen it, and just the looks of the desktop the way they had it set up irritated me for some reason-- the pop-up expanding icons or something seemed too bells-and-whistles even for a Mac. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/9 "2001-01-11T01:35:29Z")
By the way…just downloaded iTunes…pretty spiffy free audio software (I’m running OS 8.6 so I had to hack the system file to fool iTunes into running…the bastards in Cupertino want to force us to upgrade in order to run their free stuff…) ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mac-users-upgrade-to-osx/49195/10 "2001-01-13T05:19:35Z")
I’m anxious to try it out, but I’ll probably wait until: They work out the bugs They tweak the interface after the early adopters do their bitching 😉