OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: the Ars Technica Review

This is the first Siracusa review I've read as I'm a relative newcomer to his podcast and peers. The first thing that strikes me is his style and clarity. Okay, so that's two things. Style, clarity and humour. The three things that strike me are his style, clarity, humour and knowledge of Apple OS history. Okay, four things. You get the picture.

It's so refreshing today to read such a well-punctuated piece of work, let alone well written. As I age, my level of intolerance for bad grammar seems to be lowering. I've just ditched a well-regarded tech blogfor that reason. So John's writing scores highly, very highly in fact. It's almost as enjoyable to read as say Stephen Fry or Douglas Adams.

In terms of content, it's jam packed with goodness. The links provided are extremely useful, particularly for newcomers to his OS X reviews who won't be so readily familiar with the history of the OS. I didn't know about Core Animation, for example. His explanation of display scaling had my eyes glazing over a bit; same with the Objective-C stuff, but that's not because he didn't explain them well enough.

And thank you for making it a book John, so I could get one step closer to reaching my 2012 goodreads goal!