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Originally posted by joshd
i thought that OS9 wasnt that different from OSX? just without the extra bits?
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OS 9 and OS X are entirely different. OS X is a different family of operating systems; it's a *nix, based on BSD. Its precursor wasn't really the older Mac OS', it was NeXTSTEP. You can use Google or the Wikipedia to learn more about all of that.
OS X doesn't even run previous Mac OS applications. To ease the transition, they had a "Classic Mode" which I think was a sort of compatibility layer for OS 9 and older. OS X does not run "Classic" apps anymore. In a sense, this Intel thing is the second major transition Apple has done this decade. OS 9 to OS X was a lot harder than PPC to x86 seems to be though, largely thanks to Rosetta, which is pretty transparent, albeit slow.
Anyway, I'd run OS X if you can, and if it runs at a usable speed. Thing with OS X in its beginning, it wasn't exactly polished to start off. 10.0 seemed like a really nice-looking beta. 10.1 improved a lot of issues, but I still didn't think it was that great. 10.2 a year later changed a lot though; I feel that was the first release of OS X that was really a good operating system. 10.3, a year later again, brought a lot of needed speed improvements. Anyway, you can read a much more detailed history or OS X
here (Wikipedia).
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the architects i worked with used both PC and mac. PC for the CAD side of things, and mac for all the photoshopping.
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If it turns out you like OS X, you'd definitely appreciate virtualization on the Intel Macs if you ever get such a machine sometime in the future. Run Windows (with AutoCAD) contained in a window on your OS X desktop. Full speed and access to hardware, taxing on the available RAM (obviously) more than anything else.
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