I have been using Mac OS X on my Mac laptop since August when it returned from its magical journey into the netherworld.(I really need to write up the whole saga of my hotel theft and how it ended up getting resolved.) Today, for the first time in ages, I booted the machine into Mac OS 9 to use a USB device that has no OS X drivers. Mac OS 9 now feels old fashioned to me. It’s slower, by far, on the same hardware. Things crash, something that just doesn’t happen to me on X. Networking is not really as robust or as fast. It’s interesting how accustomed to a new technology you can become in two plus months.