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My perspective is a bit different, since I gave up on the Mac shortly after the Macintosh II, preferring a real laptop (GRiDcase III for the morbidly curious), then used a NeXT Cube for a desktop and having since moved to Tablet PCs.
At one point in time I actually had access to machines running Windows, NeXTstep and Mac OS w/ similar CPUs and memory specs --- the machine running NeXTstep was far more elegant, capable, productive and stable than the other two. While Mac OS X has pretty much kept the stability, and capabilities have improved, elegance and productivity have lost.
Things which I miss:
- vertical / repositionable main menu
- tear off sub-menus which allowed customization of the interface at will
- Display PostScript --- it kills me that in the 21st century it's still possible to get a graphic on-screen, but then be unable to print it.
- Print, Hide, Quit and Services are no longer top-level menus (which made sense) but are hidden.
- the clear demarcation between Command and Control shortcut key combinations has been lost
- TeX is no longer installed by default
- nor is a PANTONE color library / license
William
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