BeOS 4.5 2.0 Bundle with BeOS Bible

by BE INCORPORATED

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00003W8JU
• Item model number: 45-10072
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,398 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #6 in Software > Operating Systems > BeOS
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What sliced bread did for breakfast, this does for your PC, January 18, 2000

By 

Peter Marino (Englewood, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BeOS 4.5 2.0 Bundle with BeOS Bible (CD-ROM)

The Be operating system is fantastic! It is fast and resilient to crashing. It has protected multitasking, unlike Windows. It has 64-bit file logging system, which is far superior to anything offered by the microsoft corporation. You can run multiple sound tracks and their respective movies all at the same time. It boots up in a matter of a few seconds, instead of the 60-90 seconds windows takes.. It even supports a DVORAK keyboard, which is, by the way a much better keyboard than QWERTY. I admit, it does look a lot like MacOS, but Jean-Louis Gasee (CEO) is an ex-mac engineer. It also does not have many games for it, but there is no shortage of shareware. The company employees are fun and helpful people. I cannot praise this enough! Abandon Windows! Spit on a bust of W. H. Gates III! Trumpet in a new era of speed and ease for your computer!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is GREAT!, December 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: BeOS 4.5 2.0 Bundle with BeOS Bible (CD-ROM)

I have the BeOS 5 Pro, and I can tell anyone who is unsure of this system that it rocks. I installed the free version on my friends computer just as a test, and it improved his response by at least 150%! IT took only 12 seconds to boot, compared to windows 98 at 97 seconds, and just learning where everything is was easy.

To the guy who is talking bout the office suite, Gobe Productive has one for it that is jsut as good as MS Office. If I compare it to Staroffice for Linux, it is about the same. You can try that.

If anyone is unsure about the BeOS, go to the BE website at www.be.com, and download the free version. I got hooked that night. It will not hurt any windows settings.. I installed the free version at work on an NT machine, and it is great. And for all you computer guys, BeOS reads NTFS, and you can get a free driver to write to it also, and it requires not admin rights. IT is awesome!

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What version of Gobe Productive, December 24, 1999

By 

Edward Rataj (San Diego) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BeOS 4.5 2.0 Bundle with BeOS Bible (CD-ROM)

BeOS operating system is great. Fastest thing on the planet but to replce win98 it needs a MS Office like. It comes with Gobe Productive but does not state the version which is critical as MS Word documents are recognized by vs 2 and not 1.1