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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 ;)
You're going to try it out a little? Better not say "a lot" or "I might even use it full time," or Linus will revoke your charter.
Huh, I can upgrade a crappy old Win95 install to the equivelant of WinME by downloading only 500+Mb of files straight from Microsoft, assuming that their site hasn't been virused or DOS'd or DNS hacked or just switched off by mistake. That gives me an OS that's far more stable... not, wait... that looks totally different... no, hang on, that's not it. Something is different though... Ah! It needs twice the memory and runs half as fast. So it must be better, and it didn't cost me a penny to get there, other than the three days out of my life to download each patch one at a time then reboot.
Apple could learn a lesson from this.
Or maybe they already did. ;)
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
And when microsoft releases software that's slow, and buggy, and then fixes it later, everyone bitches ....
hypocrisy and jealousy on slashdot are pathetic.
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Darnit Taco, please join the present. I'm currently using an Intellimouse Explorer on my Mac, and I've got five mouse buttons plus a scroll wheel. They all work quite well, thank you. If you really want a multi-button mouse for your iBook, just plug one into the USB port. You don't even have to reboot.
I know you meant it as a joke, but statements like that smell a lot like a troll. Please try not to taunt your audience.
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I guess if you think that $20 is a fair amount to pay for shipping then, yeah, it's free.
-Waldo
Don't you mean the GNU/Asus A7V/Duron/700/Mandrake 8.0/KDE that sits next to it?
Loneliness is a power that we possess to give or take away forever
Many of you who view slashdot from a Linux box may never have seen a DVD before, and can obviously live without them since Linux doesn't have any legal DVD software. Some of you may never have seen a "windowing operating system," either (they're great, you don't have to type nearly as much and sometimes you even get pictures). But you need to understand something: when you buy a $2500+ machine, which claims to be, among other things, a DVD player, you had better well be able to play DVDs on it. Now, I got mine for only $400, and I'm fairly proficient at multibooting (my windows PC runs BSD, Be, Win 98 and Windows 2000) so i'm only slightly pissed at OS-X's severe lacking in the DVD department. But many people, for whom the mac is the one machine to rule them all, are goddamn pissed at the lack of DVD support. When you insert a DVD, an icon proclaiming "DVD!" appears on your desktop to mock you. And besides: with the excellent BSD operating system underneath us, maybe Mac users can finally get a little DVD -> MPEG action without begging our linux and windows friends to rip vob files for us.
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