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OS X 10.1 Coming Today (Sorta)
usa35.com writes "News.com has a story detailing the release of Apple's 10.1 update. They say "unveiled" today, probably meaning actually disseminated to us general public folks sometime in the coming days." This is of course the release that regular users can actually use. Supposedly this is a free upgrade. Speed improvements, UI fixes, DVD stuffs. I can't wait to test it out a little. And those new iBooks are pretty reasonably priced (I figure that they can sell them cheap by cutting corners like most of the mouse buttons ;)
The new version will be available from Mac dealers and Apple's own retail stores at no cost for existing OS X owners. Everyone else will pay $129 .
M$ could take a lesson from Apple. "Second edition" bug fix releases sure aren't free, and full versions aren't $129.00.
Oh yeah, Apple doesn't have a Monopoly to screw us with.
The Gardener
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Slashdot has gotten into the Apple rumor mongering! I'll start us off down the necessary path:
What else could Steve J be revealing today? I think that aren't quite right for the but I think that we're long over do for . I can't wait!
I can't spell or type, but that doesn't mean I'm unusually stupid.
I wish I could afford to buy a brand new computer every time Apple made an improvement!
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
I have the MS Intellimouse with 5 buttons and a scroll wheel. I can tell you that it makes a significant difference compared to a simple two button mouse. It's a realy issue, stop the arrogance, and fix the platform.
There is no longer anything that can be done with computers that is nontrivial and clearly legal. -- Paul Phillips
I can only presume, given such an amazingly redundant post like that one, that your I-time score of II is now I.
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Speaking of redundant, I've still got XLII karma, so be on the look out for more +II posts.
"...I had two buttons on my mac in '92...They're availalbe all over the place, and come with the software to make that second button do whatever you want . . ."
So, for the past 9 years Company A has been making what you consider an inferior product but you are still buying and patching it to do what you want. When there are superior products out there that do it correctly out of the box.
The joke here isn't "single button mice make macs hard to use" it is "the persistence of the single button mouse design error shows how little Apple really cares about usability".
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