| The Mac OS: | | | | working away. If you're like most of us, you've got a |
| Mac OS runs smoothly. That's what I noticed first off. | | | | few things going on. Word processor, spreadsheet, |
| There's very little waiting, very little fussing, very little | | | | email, iChat, browser, even iTunes music. |
| Ctrl+Alt+Del/End Task for behavior control. | | | | For Mac users, there's a stack of DJ software |
| For Macintosh Computer Users, Mac OS 9 is the last | | | | available to help you in your quest for stardom as a |
| stop a famous train. It's the last version of the | | | | DJ. The latest dream came to light with a nifty Mac |
| operating system that changed the world that put the | | | | Part called Cue Phase. Finally, DJ software that |
| Mac on the map and inspired such imitators as | | | | non-DJ's could use. |
| Microsoft Windows. After Mac OS 9, Apple Computer | | | | In other words, you cue up music in a stack, click and |
| plans to introduce Mac OS X, a radically new | | | | the stack starts playing on your Mac. In other words, |
| operating system that looks and works nothing like the | | | | you cue up music in a stack, click and the stack starts |
| Mac we've come to know. | | | | playing on your Mac. |
| Mac OS 9 is better designed and more conductive to | | | | There's also the high end user-- the Mac user with the |
| productivity than Mac OS X. Mac OS 9 still offers | | | | latest and greatest of everything. Microsoft Office, |
| such familiar and useful features as the launcher, | | | | Adobe Photoshop Elements, Final Cut Express or |
| menu, application menu control strip, pop-up windows, | | | | Logic Express, and some of the great utility |
| collapsible windows, and so on. | | | | applications such as Photo to Movie and JA lbum. |
| The dynamic animation present in the OS at each step | | | | There's also the high end user-- the Mac user with the |
| is immediately noticeable; the system updates icon | | | | latest and greatest of everything. Microsoft Office, |
| began "dancing" to notify me that there were updates | | | | Adobe Photoshop Elements, Final Cut Express or |
| available for download. The update function works like | | | | Logic Express, and some of the great utility |
| Windows Update and Red Hat Network; it simply goes | | | | applications such as Photo to Movie and J Album. |
| out and installs the updates with your approval. | | | | They may have a PowerMac, but probably not a new |
| Special features: | | | | one. |
| Think of this scenario. You're sitting at your Mac, | | | | |