Mac OS X 'Panther': User at the Center

MatthewRothenberg writes "Over at eWEEK, we believe we've got the drop on the much-discussed interface enhancements to Mac OS X 10.3, a k a Panther: The theme of this September release will be 'User at the Center,' an umbrella term for a variety of new features aimed at leapfrogging Microsoft when it comes to pervasive, user-focused computing. Niceties include user-configurable 'piles,' a fast-user-switching-type feature, and easy transferral of home directories among devices and the Web. Oh, and it's mo' definitely 64-bit-complete, too."

Comments

Re:Piles?

[godawful]

here is a possible example of how they will work, flash required.

the idea is that you could stack documents in a group on top of each other, so to speak. say you are working on a web page, you could select say the index.html and the images (or whatever, im assuming) and group them together in one pile.

after this, you would convieably be able to click and hold or right click, and the pile would expand to show you the documents contained in said pile. while expanded you could select which file you actually want to open.

could be nifty

Re:Doesn't matter

[be-fan]

Sorry to break it to you, but there isn't some magical hardware in the average Apple comp that you can't get in a Dell or IBM. They use pretty much the same components as anyone else. In many cases the components are crappier (Apple "Pro" speakers my ass, give me a pair of Klipsches any day!) If you take a look at the cost of the machine, you'll see it goes to three main places
- CPU
- Motherboard
- Apple markup
The last one is a little high, but okay for the level of case engineering, QA, and tech support Apple supposedly has. The first two (much larger) ones are an unavoidable effect of having a non-standard hardware platform.