Those who make music on their Macs have been waiting for sample-based musical instruments in VST (Steinberg) or RTAS (Digidesign) format to be rewritten for Mac OS X. Now it's happening and ...

Mac OS 9 feels much faster on the 800MHz G4 than does OS X 10.4 or 10.5, and when the system is working smoothly things open and close pretty much instantaneously.