I’m typing this in BBEdit running in the Classic environment in OSX 10.2; it’s seamless and fast and extremely impressive. It’s going to take me some time to figure out exactly how to use this system, and I’m probably going to re-format the hard drive again into one partition (I did two, and installed the system on one), but for right now it’s running via a FireWire drive off the back of Scout. I have a few days of installing my Classic software onto the second drive ahead of me, organizing the files, and figuring out how to organize the OSX volume. I’m going to have to buy a book on OSX just so I can catch up with the system and understand what to prune and what not to touch. There are a lot of things I want to learn about, and so far, after a somewhat rocky start, it’s gone pretty smoothly.

The lag I noticed with the beta is gone. The Classic environment comes up quickly and painlessly. Fonts look beautiful in OSX. I was able to hook up with my server in about three seconds, and I’m going to attempt to organize it as a Favorite here in a minute. Probably the biggest thing to get used to will be the new layout of the Finder–after ten years or so, it’s hard to re-program the brain.