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Ars Technica OS X 10.1 Review

Posted by timothy on from the letters-with-numbers dept.

Joystickit writes: "John Siracusa over at Arstechnica has posted his review of OS X 10.1. He comes to the conclusion that 10.1 is much improved but still leaves much to be desired. It is an excellent read. He always seems to have the most in-depth reviews. Check it out." John's earlier OS X reviews are excellent as well; seeing what Apple does right and wrong is informative reading no matter what OS you prefer.

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  1. here's a real world example of why OSX is amazing. by heldlikesound · · Score: 5, Interesting

    On my 2001 iBook (with DVD drive) I am able to do the following (among other things of course):

    1. Capture DV footage, edit it, and output it right back out onto a camera (or play it to a tv).

    2. Run Apache, PHP4, and mySQL flawlessly together and then replicate my work onto my "real, live" server on the web.

    3. Watch DVD's with no stuttering or slowdowns while working in the shell, editing code in BBEdit, listening to iTunes, and stress-testing the above Apache setup.

    Make no mistake, OSX still has a way to go, but give it a year and it will be the propriatary OS to beat!!!!!

    --


    Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
  2. Chinese Support by Giant+Robot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It listed localization packs for Japanese, and other Euro langs..

    Although there's no localization pack for the 'other' east asian language, does anyone know the status of chinese support under OS/X (ie, displaying, rendering fonts, input methods, unicode conversion etc...)?

    Windows 2000 and Linux supports se asia l10n pretty well now, though w2k is really good! Everything is stored 'internally' as unicode, and the input/output can be converted to other (popular) encodings such as big5. Even the input methods are fairly complete.

    I want to convert to mac for DTP stuff (but requires chinese typesetting for many clients). I tried searching for Chinese support (like truetype fonts, input methods) and the only thing I can find is old 3rd party software for Mac 7.x or something...

  3. New Apple topic icon(s) by John+Siracusa · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Man, it never fails...I always have moderator access to stories involving me. Anyway, now that I've forfeitted it, but while I still have a chance of being scored up, I'd like to pimp the Apple topic icons I emailed to Malda (where procmail no-doubt sent them to /dev/null :-P) The current one is just plain ugly, IMO. How about this instead? (Two versions of the same thing)

    http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/images/topic ap ple-1.gif

    http://siracusa.home.mindspring.com/images/topic ap ple-2.gif

    (Without the space...grrr)