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Age-old Debates

Macworld readers have never been shy about sharing their opinions on everything from tax software to the aesthetics of iPod carrying cases. And while we expected our March issue to spark yet more heated debate about OS X, the most-passionate letters have been about... other letters. A few readers, fed up with complaints about OS X, suggest that critics of the new OS are clinging to the past. Hopefully, the negative feedback we've received about the new iMac will not inspire a wave of letters declaring that the naysayers would be happier using slide-rules and abacuses.

OS X-Ready Readers

JOHN HALE

Your article "Feel at Home in Mac OS X" (March 2002) helped me make the change to OS X. I had concerns that my 17-inch Apple Studio Display (LCD) with a Dr. Bott DVIator wouldn't work with OS 9.2, and that proved to be true. But MacFixIt (www.macfixit.com) supplied enough information to work through that problem. Christopher Breen's closing statement sums it up for me: "Now that your files are in place, your links to the Internet and network are established, and your printer is present and accounted for, you and your Mac should feel much more at home."

JERRY STRATTON

In your article, you recommend setting aside 1.5GB for an OS X installation. Allowing so little disk space for OS X is likely to mean that you can't perform any OS X upgrades, which require hundreds of megabytes of free space. Also, taking up 1.5GB won't leave enough disk space for applications. Though you can install OS X applications on a different volume from the OS X one, doing so means that you won't be...

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