Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mdisea!jackb From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: 7.0 Message-ID: <1991Mar18.232143.5514@MDI.COM> Date: 18 Mar 91 23:21:43 GMT References: <91073.100027DLP@psuvm.psu.edu> <13539@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> Sender: news@MDI.COM Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 35 In article ec1k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Edward P. Costello) writes: > >[not meant as a flame...] >I'll join the hesitaters at least until 7.1 comes out. I've been burned >once too often by new system software. Sys 7.0's interesting, but be >prepared for a crowded menubar (on those few of us with small screen >Macs :-). Actually not so crowded. 7.0B4 is nice. And actually very few bugs. The finder is MUCH better. The functionality is better. Things run better in the "multifinder" environent. Will I switch? No. I already have. Will I go back to pre - 7.0? Not unless something makes me. I'm sold. Apple has really done a super job on this one. AND, I have found very little software that has problems under Sys 7. Even Microsoft Word and Excel work right! The one problem? MPW Shell. :-(. At least Apple released an upgraded shell that DOES work with Sys 7. :-). > >Re: opening Control Panels like Finder files >I don't see how changing the interface to the control panel from what >it's been for, what, seven years? will be beneficial. I found it >confusing. Yes, let's take the ability to change system level >information and make it harder for people to do. Right. > Gee. The new way allows us to have multiple control panels open at once. That means I can play with sound and After Dark screen blankers at the same time. These are things we have been complaining about for years. Now they have fixed them. AND, in a most useful way. Don't get me wrong - Apple doesn't do EVERYTHING right. But they seem to have done things very right with System 7. Jack Brindle ham radio wa4fib.