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Why OS X?
OS X is a completely redesigned OS to make your Mac experience the best it can be. Mac OS X delivers the power, stability, scalability, reliability, and phenomenal Internet performance of the industrial-strength Unix-based core operating system called Darwin. Plus, with Aqua, Mac OS X's user interface, you never have to see Darwin's complexity unless you really want to.
What is Aqua? How does it make my life easier?
As cool, fresh, and fluid as its name implies, the Mac OS X Aqua interface makes your screen come alive with liquid color, translucence, depth, and fluid motion. Large buttons take you to the most frequently used areas of your Mac. A file and application dock lets you add near photo-quality pictures of items to the bottom of your Mac's screen for fast, one-click access. Windows move around on-screen, completely intact and in real time. New dialog panels make their document relationships clear and no longer prevent you from working on other things. More features. Easy to use.
Will OS X handle my graphics?
Yes, Apple's proven QuickTime software optimizes video for streaming over the Web, and OpenGL delivers blistering hot 3D graphics. Plus, Mac OS X includes a feature that everyone -- especially graphics professionals -- will appreciate immediately: a 2D graphics renderer based on Adobe® PostScript and PDF technology. Quartz generates the sharpest graphics and text ever seen on a monitor.
Is OS X more dependable?
Part of Mac OS X's Darwin core, Protected Memory shields each application's memory from the others, so you never have to worry about one frozen or crashed application affecting your whole system. Preemptive Multitasking prioritizes tasks so you can have multiple applications open and running tasks at one time, such as batch processing video in Media Cleaner Pro® while you work on reports in Microsoft® Word.
Will OS X run my OS 9 Apps?
Yes, within Mac OS X's Classic Environment, you can run all of the Mac OS 9 applications available today. And Mac OS X will run on Macs from the earliest iMacs forward. So you can get software and hardware you need today and know that they will work with OS X.
Plus, Mac OS X's other two software development environments, Carbon and Cocoa, simplify the development of applications for Mac OS X. So you can rest easy knowing that more software makers than ever will bring great software to the Mac platform.
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