Raymond Wiker wrote:
expect more than just elegant design (imho). The Mac is no longer leading technologically, whereas Lisa once did.The Lisa is no longer cutting edge, either. It may have been at some point; but even that is debatable - it may equally well be considered just a refinement of various ideas originating at Xerox and elsewhere.
It was, but as such - the first GUI to go into a *personal* computer, not a high-tech lab prototype - it was cutting edge indeed. Especially if you add up all the specs on the hardware as well (MMU, soft shutdown, etc)
If you say that the Lisa was leading technology because it was
ahead of what was commonly available otherwise, you should also accept
that the G3 and G4 processors were leading technology at the time of
their introduction.
Well... To some extent, that's true, at one time they were ahead both in elegant cpu core design and raw clock speed (300 vs 200 Intel mhz). But after Intel's brain drain of Motorola labs, that lead has vanished.
True, although you could argue that using an OS from 1969 and then making it into bloatware - which OS X is, unfortunately, I've run A/UXOh, *please*. I've been using various versions of Unix professionally for the last 12 years, and MacOSX is in some ways a definite improvement.
I'm not saying it isn't. In some ways it's the Holy Grail - finally putting a real consumer Unix out there. I *am* saying, though, that none of it is so cutting edge that Windows computers absolutely, technically cannot do it.
Regards, Rudy