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Best of '97: Mac OS 8 (1/4/98)
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Now that the new year has begun, CNet has posted their list of the ten best products of the year. Normally we wouldn't care, because we usually find CNet's reviews less than penetrating. However, despite their initially-lukewarm review of Mac OS 8, we're pleased to see that the current version of our favorite operating system ranked fifth in the list.

Chalk it all up to Mac OS 8's subtle charms: little things like popup folders and multi-threaded copying don't particularly knock anyone's socks off at the beginning, but the overall elegance and simplicity of this latest Mac OS overhaul eventually wins over most users. (For instance, we just spent the last two weeks confined to a Powerbook running System 7, and switching back to our Mac OS 8 system feels like stretching our legs after a long coach-class flight. (I can't believe we survived over two weeks without tabbed windows and contextual menus!)

Congrats to Apple and the Mac OS team. And from everything we've been hearing, Mac OS 8.1 will be another must-have update when it's unveiled at the Expo this week.

 
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The above scene was taken from the 1/4/98 episode:

January 4, 1998: (Sorry—this was before we started writing intro text for each episode!)

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  • 328: Preparing for the Rush (1/4/98)   And speaking of Mac OS 8.1, it seems that Apple is being particularly intelligent in assessing the massive number of people who will attempt to download it when it's made available on the Internet later this month...

  • 329: Spam and Blackmail (1/4/98)   How about that? AOL is continuing its "war on spam" despite one spammer's threat to post the email addresses of every single AOL subscriber. "But AtAT," we hear you ask, "isn't that undisguised blackmail?"...

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