[3dAnimation]

It occurred to me that everyone loves OS X for different reasons. What are your TOP 3 reasons why you love OS X? Here's mine:

1. STABILITY:
OS X is rock solid for me. In 2 years of X I've had maybe 3 or 4 panics, and most of them were on Public Beta ;)

2. INTERFACE:
I love(d) OS 9, but in OS X, the interface seems more "real" and hands on. Perhaps thanks to the Drop Shadows, and the Enormous and Beautiful icons. For me, OS X is a place that I can live happily, not an interface that's in-my-face.

3. COMPATIBILITY:
Whether it is Windoze files, Unix scripts, Images, or whatever, OS X can handle all kinds of files. It's this amazing tool that does it all. And if by some chance, it can't be done natively, someone has written a slick piece of shareware (probably based upon some facet of OS X's inherent capabilities) to do make it possible. Then, of course, you have to mention Freex86 and Virtual PC. OS X provides the foundation to do it all.


So there you have it. How about you?

enjoy!
GregM.

[MacGorilla]

1. Its stable
2. The Interface
3. Unix base. Via La Gimp!

[sensorfreaky]

1. It looks beautiful

2. It smells good

3. Even tastes good

[malvolio]

1. Stability
2. Multitasking
3. Compatibility

[Gul Banana]

?_Terminal.app and all that implies
?_Multitasking up the wazoo
? Cocoa

SHINY SHINY eyecandy is a close fourth.

[MojoRising022]

1) It's not Windows
2) It's not Windows
3) It's not Windows

[willed]

1) Stability
2) Multitasking
3) Lickable

[torifile]

Honestly, it's the interface that gets me. The UI is still raw in (a very few) minor places, but I love it. I feel productive using it. It's a joy to work with. There is no ONE thing about it that's great. It's the whole user experience.

[dampeoples]

1) Stability
2) Interface
3) The hardware it runs on

[Gatorzx2]

1. GUI
2. Unix
3. Stability

[I Bent My Wookiee]

1) the Dock
2) the Dock
3) the Dock

[iPond317]

Originally posted by MojoRising022:
1) It's not Windows
2) It's not Windows
3) It's not Windows

I'll second that!

[Adam Betts]

1. Attention to Details
2. The Dock
3. Best multitasking

I'll never get enough of MacOS X. Every time I use my mac, there's a sparkling feeling inside me. I think it's called love

[gorickey]

1.) Stunning...
2.) Cunning...
3.) and always Running...

Thanks Apple!

[nickm]

1. It just does so much stuff!*
2. Makes the Mac simple again **
3. So many ways to program for it


* I use my Mac for email/Pine, Web browsing, web serving, listening to music, video editing, ssh, x11, VNC, sendmail, graphics work, file serving, paper writing....

** The OS 9 interface was getting crusty. It is true that OS X still needs some of the advanced features that 9 had, but I'm glad they made a fresh start rather than carrying all that cruft over with them.

[iRebound]

01. Stability
02. Multitasking
03. Apache (Unix)

[DamnDJ]

1. Stability
2. User Experience (Best of unix, Mac, compatibility, etc)
3. Because it's so damn cool.

[ApeInTheShell]

1. System Preferences, no extensions to loose
2. Consistency in applications whether they be brushed metal or aqua
3. Installtion: the package format for system updates and some other software, user password protected, tells you where the files are going

*burp*

'cuse me.

[Zadian]

- column view
- network (apache, samba, ssh, webDAV)
- simple, organised and logic GUI

[Mac Zealot]

1. Simplicity
2. Efficiency
3. the choice to have things run entirely in the background or in your face
4. The ability to customize the ENTIRE OS, even the messages on the boot screen.

at one point i had mine saying

"How are you gentlemen!"
"All your base are belong to us!"
"We get signal!"
"Move "Zig""
"for great justice"

etc

[nsxpower]

1. GUI
2. Unix
3. Stability

[macmike42]

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
?_Terminal.app and all that implies
?_Multitasking up the wazoo
? Cocoa

x2 exactly!

Originally posted by Gul Banana:
SHINY SHINY eyecandy is a close fourth.

Dude, Max's new SmoothStripes Gloss theme is so shiny I had to turn adjust my gamma! I love it.

[Toyin]

1. Stability
2. Multitasking
3. Unix

[Timo]

1. Force-quit works
2. Aqua looks nice
3. Multi-tasking works

[OAW]

1. GUI
2. Stability
3. It just works!

OAW

[eddiecatflap]

1. stability
2. force quit
3. THE ICONS

[pat++]

1. Snappyness
2. Responsiveness
3. Super fast window resizing

Just kidding

[pat++]

My "true" post now :

1. Nice user interface
2. Unix base
3. errr.... there is no Step 3

[:haripu:]

1. elegance of interface
2. column-view
3. the enormous amount of software & tools that is coming out for it every day

[BrunoBruin]

1. Multitasking.
2. Stability: I don't think my dual-867 at work has crashed ONCE since I got it last fall.
3. Column view.

[Mr Ti]

1)Windows Networking (SMB)
2)Friends WOW factor
3)The pace of development (exciting)

[iDriveX]

1. Bluetooth
2. Sony Ericsson Clicker 1.0
3. Efficiency

[Scarpa]

1. BSD core, love the open source networking tools.

2. Stability. My Powerbook routinely stays up for over a month at a time.

3. It just works? Preaching to the choir here, but I swear I spend more time on stupid little issues on my win2k box at work than my PB.

[Group51]

1. Stability
2. The Dock (its changed how I organise, for the better, and smokes(!) have you used the task bar in XP?)
3. Clean and Pretty UI

[nforcer]

Preemptive Multitasking
Protected Memory
Cocoa

[Bombia]

Originally posted by sensorfreaky:
1. It looks beautiful

2. It smells good

3. Even tastes good

agree

[DeathMan]

1. Hardware-Software Integration (I know it sounds like Phil Shiller, but its true, Apple is the only one who makes the hardware, AND the software) Why else does it "just work"?

2. Solid Unix-based, open source, security and stablility, and everything that goes along with it.

3. Stays out of the way.

(wanted to put no viruses on there, too, but I take that too much for granted)

[Adam Betts]

Originally posted by eddiecatflap:
3. THE ICONS

Very true!

[MPC]

1) 2 years and no panic.

2) I can do things while things do things.

3) When I sit at the coffee shop ladies ask about my D*CK.

--Diggin' wildcards

[Peter]

1. The icons, and other customizations
2. The GUI. Is fricking awesome!
3. The community. One great big family...

[bradoesch]

[list=1][*]Stability[*]Windows connectivity[*]Multitasking and protected memory[/list=1]

[stew]

1. Runs on the iBook
2. services
3. Does not suck as much as most other operating systems.

I consider memory protection and proper multitasking as a given, and it's nothing where OS X is exceptionally different than the rest of the crowd.

I'm not a huge fan of any popluar OS - they all suck more or less.

[pliny]

Good uptime
Omniweb (the obligatory: where is Omniweb 5?)
Easy to integrate into multiplatform networks

[Sarc]

let's see

that would be

1) Stability
2) Unix Uderpinnings (and all that carries, protected memory, terminal, Multitasking, etc).
3) The Sharing Preference Pane (byproduct of networking)

[zazou]

1. Intuitive / Usability-UI
( considering all the past rant on this here, I find it strange so many site this as a great thing)

2. Standards and Extendibility
( apps, languages, etc ) While Windows gets more and more proprietary X seems on the fast track to open-standards where they really matter.

3. Stability.
(X stable, XP not. 'nuff said.)


Runner Up: X shareware.

The amount of quality X shareware versus the PC world is flat out astounding in itself.

So, sure, maybe BestBuy and CompUSA have isles of PC software. But generally I can find pretty good, if not amazing, 10-20 dollar solution on VT or MU, have it in 10 minutes and not pay for it unless i like it.

Every day or so I just fin myself say, "damn, X is so cool."

I never said that about a PC. Ever.

[cpac]

1) eye candy - gui, dock, etc.
2) the Applications man! - when was the last time we had such a nice new fresh start with new applications that run so well and look so damn good?!!
3) compatability - critical in a windows world.