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Article: NEW(S) MEDIA With UNIX inside, Apple's new OS may be hard to beat "OS X appears to be the real deal. ... [It] could be a real breakout in the workstation and small server market".(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- NewsInc
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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A few days with an Apple Titanium PowerBook running OS X leads you to a couple of inescapable conclusions:
* With OS X, Apple may have finally gotten around to releasing the Ultimate Operating System it promised everyone a decade ago.
* You can use a Titanium PowerBook as a laptop only if your closet is full of asbestos pants.
A quick update for those of you who may have missed a few episodes: Several months ago (see NewsInc., July 2, 2001) in this very space ran a column saying that it might be time to reconsider Macs for two reasons. First, OS X is the Mac interface on top of UNIX, so it might be enterprise-capable.
And second, ...