Why Is the Surface So Bad?

Re:Why Is the Surface So Bad? by vondur on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @12:26AM (#4752275)

Mac OSX was never hideous to look at. The interface may have been slow, but the multi-tasking on it was awesome at the time. I remember being able to play DVD's and browse the web and download large files at the time and the system never blinked, and no frames were ever dropped on the DVD playback. Regarding the Surface, the hardware is nice, and the software can fortunately be fixed. The question is will enough people buy it?

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Re:Why Is the Surface So Bad? by jkn on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @04:34AM (#4752821)

That is of course a matter of taste, but early OS X versions were very unappealing to me.

Here's a screenshot of 10.3 (Panther): http://iindigo3d.com/macos/macosx103.jpg

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Re:Why Is the Surface So Bad? by bruceboughton on Wednesday November 07, 2012 @04:54AM (#4752855)

While maybe not quite so attractive as later OS X versions, it compares rather favourably to Windows XP.

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Re:Why Is the Surface So Bad? by lokedhs on Friday November 09, 2012 @09:29PM (#4765714)

So you prefer the way the calendar application looks now?

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Re:Why Is the Surface So Bad? by jarjoura on Friday November 09, 2012 @08:40PM (#4765591)

Check out this article. LOL, 10.0 also suffered from a mixture of poorly blended UIs. Brushed metal, pin-stripes, and old Carbon hybrid UIs with tiny fonts.

http://veerle-v2.duoh.com/blog/comments/mac_os_x_105_leopard...

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