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Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the sweet-like-krispy-kreme-donuts dept.

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."

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  1. The new hardware is sexy too by Twid · · Score: 5, Informative

    Tiger looked really neat, especially the search/metadata functions, but the most amazing display at WWDC was this:

    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
  2. Re:I'm still hoping for a more snappy interface... by Moridineas · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Most important "new feature" by mj_1903 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Yes it will provide more speed increases. Lets take a look at some of the areas:
    • 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.