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Jaguar is Over
The Panther Finder is brand-new, with a new brushed metal appearance, and enhanced column view, with the items used most commonly in the far left column. Searching is "live" and a lot faster, and is more user-centric instead of computer-centric.
The Finder now has labels, and icons can resize with window resizing.
The iDisk now caches itself locally, so it can be used offline, and the user can copy to and from it more efficiently (with the real copies happening in the background).
A new feature called Expose allows minimizing into a smaller window, all open windows, to temporarily move everything out of the way, sort of like workspaces.
File Vault can encrypt a user directory and decrypt it "on the fly."
Faxing is now built-in, and available system-wide.
Pixlet is a new compression codec that does video compression without noticable artifacts, for 48 bits per pixel: at 960x540 and 24 fps, can be decoded on a 1GHz Power Mac.
Preview is significantly faster, with searching, and PS to PDF conversion.
Panther features fast user switching, a feature in Windows XP, allowing under-one-second (on the demo machine) switching between two different users.
FontBook is a new "pro" app for font management.
iChat AV is an update to iChat that does audio and video conferencing in addition to text, that works with any built-in or USB mic, and any DV video camera, connecting using only a user's screen name. It is going to beta today, and will be included in Panther, and will be sold for $29 to Jaguar users. Apple will sell iSight for $149, a small camera that does audio and video over FireWire.
Apple is preparing a new set of developer tools called XCode, which works with GCC 3.3, does distributed compiles (using available resources on the network), and has other cool stuff. It is fast, it has improved searching (like the Finder, and over entire projects), and it looks like an iApp (though it isn't metal). It removes the need to link; onnly link objects you need to launch. It starts compiling while you are editing, cutting the time you need to compile drastically. It can modify the program while it is running.
You get a new, ugly Finder, enhancements that weren't revolutionary in 1996 (folder labeling? built-in faxing?), and a few little apps, all for the low, low price of $129.
Congratulations. Enjoy your Mac Tax.
(Oh, you don't have to upgrade if you don't want to? What happens when $NEW_COOL_APP requires Mac OS X 10.3?)
Where are the G5s?
Once again, Apple has blew it.
SHIT! Ive never seen so much crap in one article on slashdot. I mean GOD - Why the FUCK does anyone care. The software is SHIT. The OS looks like a 10 cent HOOKER that you have to pay $130 to get a HAND JOB from. WTF!
Wheres the Uni-bomober when you need him. He could take out soo many mac users in a single blow. Instead, they'll all line up to give Steve jobs a BLOW JOB one at a time. Dumb idiots. Zealots. They make RMS look like a kind jovial person - like he likes commerical software.
It is such a sorry state of afiars.
In soviet russia, Steve Jobs would SUCK us off!
PORPS TO GABE AND MAUS.
But you forget this is Apple and they're allowed to have a monopoly on their own hardware and give deliberately monopolistic terms on their Operating System (not permitted on non Apple Hardware anyone?) and force upgrades every year at $129. When MS released Windows 98 SE they allowed Windows 98 users to upgrade for $20 if they wanted to, it wasn't even forced. (If you paid the $20 MS sent you an upgrade disc)
In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.
I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.
Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.
You're the troll, dork.
/will always/ support eight-year-old OSes because they only release major updates every three years or so.
7.5 is eight years old, and nowhere NEAR current. The difference between Apple and Microsoft is that in eight years, Apple's OS has matured far past the point of being noticeably different, while Microsoft
Apple has released the following major updates since 1995:
8.0
8.1 (HFS+ introduction)
8.5
9
X 10.0
X 10.1
X 10.2
And later this year, X 10.3.
Compare this to Microsoft:
Win95
Win98
Win2000 (and ME in the same time period, with ME not really being "moving forward" by the accounts of ME users)
WinXP
Eight versus four. It's easy to support an OS that's eight years old if you've only released a few big revisions since then.
I'll take "progress" for three hundred, Alex.
Mikey-San
Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
"a feature in Windows XP"
Oh, then we gotta have it. Quick, get a development team on it post haste.
Somebody else go get a copy of XP and see what else it has. If it's got it then we need it.
And how's our BSOD development team doing?
. Quit playing Monopoly with Bill. Switch to one of many non-Microsoft products today.
They've been saying that they won't be like Microsoft but if they go that route, I won't buy anything else from them again.
Hey "Jory"- don't get any ideas that you have a real sense of humor or anything. Just because a few of your sweaty, overweight geek buds modded your post up as 'funny' does not mean that you are cool or fun to hang around. Try taking a shower and using deoderant, and if you really want to stop annoying people, shave that greasy peach-fuzz moustache of yours and move out of your mother's basement. Oh, and don't ever try to make a joke about the version number of an operating system again- very uncool.
Turdburglar.
Have you seen the demos of it? Knock it all you want, it's nothing like workspaces. It's a flashy new feature that nobody has ever seen before. And of course, the Linux d00dz must express their jealousy by trying to put it down. "Oh, that's not so special." Well actually, it is very new, cool, and imaginative, and I expect to seem some pale imitations of it in KDE/Gnome after a while. And you know what they say about imitation and flattery.