The visual feedback feels better now than my XP setup and I don’t have Quartz Extreme. Windowing, Menu’ing, Scrolling all work like butter and are very fluid. Panther is a big deal, the new Webkit forms the basis of Apples Sherlock, Help, Mail viewing, so all those applications experience a many fold rendering increase in speed. In my experience, Apple PC’s have improved in value with each new release of OS X. So it looks like Longhorn will push it over the edge. My Wintel is a Dell I bought in 2001, and XP Pro is pushing it, I can feel it. Sure Windows XP is fast, but you got to keep the hardware current as my older PC’s became pretty much obsolete. My 1999 Compaq is already in the trash, I took it up to W2K and it crawls. My 1999 PowerMac G4 with an ATI Pro GPU, has improved considerably with each release of OS X. I believe what the original post meant was that OS X gets faster with every release on the same exact hardware.
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