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Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures
RAMMS+EIN writes with a good followup to the recent WWDC preview of Tiger, the next version of OS X. "eWeek has a slideshow illustrating some of Tiger's new features with screenshots. For a textual description, you can visit Apple's Tiger page."
Tiger looked really neat, especially the search/metadata functions, but the most amazing display at WWDC was this:
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Two 30" 2560x1900 widescreen displays being driven by a new custom Nvidia 6800 Ultra
It looked practical too, there was a demo with Final Cut Pro running with several tools up on the right, and the HD video up on the left. Seemed like a pretty useful setup.
I checked, and a "nicely equipped" dual monitor dual g5 came up to just under $12,000 on the apple store. Seems like a lot to most of us, but that's chump change for a high-quality HD video editing kit.
Also, I got about 50fps on Unreal Tournament 2004 running at 2560x1900 with all settings at maximum.
- "When you want something with all your heart, the entire universe conspires to give it to you" -Paulo Coelho
Slow directory listings are usually bad registory settings cauwed by the installation of some annoying program.
On one of the PCs at work, right clicking on a folder would sometimes take like 20 seconds ot show up--it was insane. I ran regclean, and now it's instantaneous. If XP has a problem, it's cruft in the registry.
OTOH, you might want to take a look at my other post in this article--among professionals, a signifigant number have stuck with OS9 because osx gui etc and overhead is so much heavier than in os9 that programs like photoshop, illustrator, quark, etc run a lot slower.
- Improved compiler (GCC 3.5) which can create better PPC code, especially for the G5
- Improved Quartz Extreme. The core image API that was demo'ed included QE enhancements and performance increases.
- Some of the iApp's such as Mail, Address Book and iCal have seen significant rewrites
- Improvements to SMB and most networking protocols
Obviously that is not an exhaustive list, but you can find more info on Apple's website.Apple hired a bunch of Be engineers when the company went out of business and the assets were sold to Palm. And amongst the people they hired is Dominic Giampaolo, designer of the Be File System. Now Mac OS and HFS+ are getting things like journaling and Query like features. It's quite nice. Apple seems to be getting the best of several worlds by buying NeXT and hiring lots of former Be people and Jordan Hubbard from FreeBSD.
They didn't.
--R.J.
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Indeed. The only issue is that Apple don't give the option of getting a 2 or 3 button mouse instead of the unimouse that they supply by default with a system.
At least on the PowerBook you can download the hack that makes the trackpad into a 3 button trackpad with scrollwheel action.
And yes, the menubar at the top of the screen is the sensible option for a fast interface. As long as the items on the menubar actually extend to the top of the screen, of course, so you can whack the mouse up there and click. Hell, Windows still doesn't extend the taskbar items to the base of the screen for some elements, meaning you still have to aim the mouse pointer. The menubar at the top is something that MacOS and AmigaOS both got correct.
If you want behaviour like windows' Alt-Tab, go to System Preferences, Keyboard and Mouse, Keyboard Shortcuts, and create a short cut for:
"Focus window (active) or next window" to something. This gives you the iterate through windows, rather then iterate through apps functionality you are probably after.
I have it set to "Option ~"
Pretty much like Alt Tab on windows. I use it all the time.