<<in the graphics and publishing areas, Apple already has a commanding lead in pure application speed because of the subsystems they use. Now, when you finally take away the HUGE bottleneck in speed the current OS has, the Mac will be unbeatably fast at these tasks, and much much more useful, to boot.>>
I'm beginning to think it's too little too late. Sure pre-emptive multi-tasking will be nice, but Windows NT machines do that now. I've also been hearing that Windows NT machines are slowly replacing Macs as the mainstream OS of Graphics market. By 1998, I think most PCs will have already upgraded to a robust pre-emptive multi-tasking system based on Windows 9x.
Apple should have released Copland this year, like they said they would.
Oh well, maybe the little Mac clone market can save them.
