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Panther Analysis Getting Underway
Durin_Deathless writes "Think Secret has posted their first article analyzing the changes from Mac OS X 10.2 to 10.3. In this first installment, they look at the changes to the Installation, System Requirements, the Finder, and some other things.
They have some nice images available too."
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Benchmarks and Real World Testing? For the birds, watch an AVI of a mouse cursor MOVING COUNTER CLOCKWISE!!! Load time and specs are anooying, lets get down to what really matters, installing solitare and using the finder!
Geeze come on, scree caps for an OS that really didn't change it's look?
Ignore the "p2p is theft" trolls, they're just uninformed
Looks like the Apple faggots are getting their panties in a bunch already!
Remember, "faggot" is the short form of "Macintosh User"
Faxing -- Faxing is crap. Waste of bandwidth. Those users should have a computer you can email or transfer files to. The only thing I can see for faxing would be legal documents which you need a signature on so you need to print them out anyway as electronic signatures are yet to be accepted by everyone in the commerce marketplace.
While good they updated/fixed it. I'd suspect / hope that 99% of users will never even consider having to fax.
keep in mind that this is a thread about Macs, and therefore literally rife with Mac users.
If I have learned anything at all from Slashdot, it is that threads which draw the Mac users are going to have the funniest posts of any seen on Slashdot.
Mind you the humor isn't always intended or even something they are aware of, which at least in this case, makes the hilarity all that much more impressive and grandiose.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Of course the fact that it's patented precludes Open Source developers from adding to KDE or GNOME or (insert your favorite desktop here), lest they get their asses sued off.
Hooray for Apple, but they only pay lip service to Open Source.
My journal has hot
I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you Mac fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a Mac (a 8600/300 w/64 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.
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.
When Microsoft released XP over Win2K, everybody booed like ducks with the words "WinXP is Win2K with extra eye candy" kinda thing.
But when Apple releases 10.3 over 10.2, it's all these things and much more !
I'm sure Apple also innovated the fast user switch feature. Just eye candy I hear.