by David LeMieux
I have been converted. It all makes much more sense to me, I wish I had seen the light earlier but, alas, I could not see the forest through the trees: OS X Leopard is bloated and unessential.
When I use my computer, I use applications. I do not "use the OS." Granted, the OS helps me manage files on the disk and it acts as a platform for my applications, but why should the OS also serve as my text editor, media player, picture viewer, backup server, and eye-candy? Shouldn't I have applications to do this for me? Why would I chose to peg my CPU with features running in the background that I am only going to use on rare occasion? An Operating System should get out of the way of what they user is trying to do with his or her applications, not take the place of the applications.
Who cares about 300 more features, I would probably prefer 300 less features and a more stable underlying application support. Perhaps I am seeing this the wrong way, but after much consideration I have decided that OS X Leopard is a step in the wrong direction. Get the OS out of my way, I want to be productive, not bogged down by "enhancements."