Jaguar Reviewed

Anonymous Coward writes "A review with a lot of screenshots of the latest beta seed (6C37) has been posted. The latest advancements look pretty promising. I, like everyone else, am itching for a release." I don't know if it is more pretty, or more promising, but it does look cool. Dock improvements, iChat, search the disk from Finder windows, QuickTime 6, Digital Hub section of System Preferences, Firewall preferences, major Speech improvements ...

Comments

Were in trouble...

[zulux]

If Apple continues to name their releases after failed video game consoles, then by the time they get to 3DO, we're screwed.

Re:Were in trouble...

[Melantha_Bacchae]

zulux wrote:

> If Apple continues to name their releases after failed video game
> consoles,

The next version of Windows is codenamed "Longhorn". It is a kind of cow.

The jaguar is the biggest feline predator in the Americas. It kills by biting thru the skull of its prey (unless the prey is small enough that a smack in the face from one of its paws can kill it). It will eat just about anything, large or small (including cows). It is a very beautiful, very powerful animal that can make its home in nearly any terrain. It loves water.

Apple is basically saying here: "Microsoft, my OS can crush your OS' skull and eat it for lunch. It can certainly chomp off large chunks of your monopoly."

Does anyone have any doubts left as to what Apple's new relationship with Microsoft will be for the next five years? ;)

Good.

"Mothra's attack is working."
-- Shouta, "Mothra 3: King Ghidora Attacks"

Mirror of 10.2 Screenshot

[debugdave]

Is Avaliable at http://www.apple.com/macosx/

NDA? we don't need no steenkin' NDA.

[ubiquitin]

Apparently not. Even though Apple made a big deal about ushering the press out after the WWDC keynote, they never signed NDA's. Developers, on the other hand, did. It is part of being an ADC member, if I remember correctly. So I can neither confirm nor deny that the screenshots at the macthis.org site look just exactly like Jaguar. With all those screenshots, that site is going down in a heartbeat... reload...... already flatlined. :)

Screenshots

[ekalb]

Spymac has lots of screenshots of Jaguar from the WWDC here. Guess NDAs don't bother some people ;)

Quartz Extreme

[thatguywhoiam]

I hear this vast sucking sound; it's coming from a massive lack of information about the one thing most of us are craving on OS X: speed. If others could chime in on this thread maybe we can figure some things out.

From what I've gleaned so far we know the following:

- QE is said to need a "nVidia: GeForce2MX, GeForce3, GeForce4 Ti, GeForce4 or GeForce4MX. ATI: any AGP Radeon card. 32MB VRAM recommended for optimum performance."

- The wording on the above statement may or may not be read as "requires", depending on whom you ask.

- The tech involved in such a feat described (single pipeline of composited video) is really advanced and interesting, and raises questions; i.e. what does it mean for OS X when the entire drawing system is offloaded to custom chips? (or on a completely side note: what does it mean when you have standardized hardware-accel. video for your OS, and the Finder is now utterly replaceable? Things like this?)

- The tech involved in QE may have come from Raycer, a company Apple acquired in early 2000. Raycer developed high-performance 3D visualization solutions using OpenGL. Apple consequently has a patent (lost the #, sorry) on vague things like 'large-scale grid transformations' (paraphrasing).

- A lot of us iBook owners, and other Rage128-based Mac owners, would like to know if QE will work partially, or at all, on this hardware.

So who can comment intelligently on what's happening here?