I think what he means by “pretty” is more userfriendly, a lot nicer environment to work in. This helps keep the company alive and kicking. In this case, this guy felt that the loss of performance was worth it for the gain he found in the new environment.Īpple is therefore striving to make the machines more attractive to lower end users where performance is less of a concern until they can solve their top end issues. Many folks by slower machines for assorted reasons.
However, not every machine sold on the planet is the fastest machine available. While Apple would no doubt love to be running super fast machines, it clearly can not for all sorts of reasons. What this is really saying is that for most computer users and the tasks that they use them for today, computers are “fast enough”. The writer states that this dual processor G4 is slower than his windows machine, but it’s ok because it’s pretty! I mean, that just makes little sense to me. Really? REALLY? Can you tell me how? Please please please please please? Pretty please even?
You can set the mouse pointer to dissapear while typing on a Windows box too, IIRC. I remember sending hate mail to the makers of a NeXT application that didn’t follow this simple guideline. Hallelujah and pass the gravy, of all the nit picky whiny petty things, I just LOVE this feature. The mouse cursor disappears when you start typing on the keyboard.
