OS 9 did a lot of heavy lifting with Final Cut, Photoshop and other post-production software. Mac OS 9 was arguably the most multi-media friendly operating system for its time. But here’s the difference: where Windows sputtered in the late 90’s, OS 9 took up the slack. You could compare it to putting Windows 98 on some top-of-the line machine from the time and calling it blazing fast. And OS 9 is so snappy and responsive it makes me wish it was still a supported operating system. For the geeks out there, it’s a PowerPC at 450Hz with 768 MB of RAM. My Cube is actually capable of running OS X 10.5, and it works, even the 3D and transparency stuff. So that got me thinking…what do I do with my Apple G4 Cube (running Mac OS 9) that’s collecting some dust? Classilla gave me the answer. And as long as you’re not a PC Gamer, what do you need your computer to do? It needs to be fast, and get on the Internet. “The browser is the OS.” With the launch of Google Chrome and the idea of instant-on cloud computing, there’s a feeling that - yeah - pretty much everything you use a computer for these days revolves around if you’ve actually got an Internet connection. I’m not sure if anyone knows who coined the phrase, but Google certainly pioneered it.
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