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Mac OS X "Tiger" Enters Final Candidate Stage
Orangez writes "Apppleinsider.com reports that 'Tiger' reaches the final candidate stage. 'With massive software projects such as Tiger, Apple will sometimes seed several final candidate builds before one is declared gold master...'" The final release has widely been speculated to be in the next month or two.
"from the sure-wish-i-had-devel-seeds dept" And I wish I had the hardware to run them on!
current hardware?
/faster/ than Panther, (which really was faster than Jaguar, big suprise!) and so on.
10.3.x works quite well on Apple's current run of machines, the G4 powerbooks and such. I've always been a bit cynical about Apple handing out bloatware to punish the Apple faithful.
Now, the hype will say that Tiger will be
If this hype were based in reality, Then Tiger should run like a raped ape on a Mac IIci, (which
shipped I think with 6.2) as every Mac OS increment has always claimed performance improvements over the existing product.
I have over 30 "modern" deployed at work. I am not at all happy about the impending release of Tiger. not without a significant bump in available hardware. Yes, the dual g5 (maybe quad soon?) is a wonderful box, but even with Panther, fully updated, it IMHO only runs as it should. You ask
it to do something, it does it. No more, no less.
Like Word Perfect 4.2 on DOS on a 286 (my personal
benchmark of performance). I've always felt that over the years the good folks at Apple bring stuff to a nice plateau, and then punish us by bringing out an OS that chokes our none-too-cheap hardware that WE JUST BOUGHT.
Please Apple, hold this OS until you update the platform (give us SLi) and then warn the
drooling macophiles that you'd do well to stick
with Panther until you can upgrade your hardware.
Thaz all.
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Man... I should not do this but, I see mods dont really read TFA or anything else... I have found a great way to make karma... you see my comment? well, if you RTFA and read some of the comments you will see the same comment I posted here is over there...
Crap, I thought I would be modded down redundant and look! i got a 5 interesting hehe
Cool!
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Difference is, when Microsoft charges for a software update, everyone cries "updates should be free!", but when Apple does it, it's a Good Thing. Fucking Slashdot hypocrisy.
It seems like every new "big cat" release of Mac OS X is less impressive than the previous. I didn't see a huge improvement going from 10.2 to 10.3. Looking at the promised new features in 10.4 now. . . I don't see anything that particularly excites me.
Mac OS X isn't revolutionary. It really is the synthesis of everything that we all wanted in an OS back in the late 1980s. If you take the better features of early Macintosh, Amiga, and all those competing projects that were attempting add a GUI to Unix, and mung them all together and then work out most of the kinks, you end up with Mac OS X.
One might well ask the question of why there were so many twists and turns along the way, and why it took about 15 years to reach someplace where we all pretty much knew we were going. That's the computer industry at work -- one big dysfunctional family, squabbling and blundering along.
And the real question now is. . . Where do we go from here? After achieving the OS that everybody wanted 15+ years ago, now Apple's OS team suddenly find themselves without a goal. They've resorted to tacking on a hodgepodge of minor trinkets and calling it a major upgrade. It must be hard to step back and admit that they're done with this OS, and that continually adding new features to it may no longer be the right approach.
If it was up to me, I would focus on maintenance, bugfixes, security, optimization. . . and de-emphasize the OS as a product. Put the OS back in its proper place, I say! An operating system shouldn't be a featured product, it should be merely a component -- a part of the computer, just like the hard drive, the RAM, the processor, etc. -- that is required for running applications. The goal should be to provide a stable, efficient foundation for apps to run on, because apps are where your work gets done. The goal should not be to try and dazzle the user with how many new widgets you can tack onto your OS every year in an attempt to sell lots of overpriced upgrade discs.
You do realize that Dashboard is already available in it's orginal form, Konfabulator.
Probably the same way it runs on them now - barely adequately.
If you want to use those high tech two button mice in OSX you have to get the new version. Those brainiacs at Apple finally figured out how to make and support a two button mouse!
Although I do have to admit that an OS that even Terry Schiavo could use can't be THAT bad....
Most people have never really read the Bible, and of those that have, many have not actually studied it and its various translations to see what has happened to the mistranslations. Of those who have actually been serious about studying it to know what anything in it means (like creationists preach), most do not speak a lick of ancient Greek, Latin or, better yet, ancient Hebrew. They have no clue as to what they preach.
Anonymous because I have clients who think the Earth IS the center of the universe. Most of them went to a local catholic school. They spent a bunch of time reading the Bible, and still know neither what they read nor much about science (though they know what they have been told to believe). I do not think all Catholic Schools are bad like this one, but the local school keeps pumping out a bunch of uneducated students. It is like there is some plot to stupify the public to make the public more docile. But, that would be a conspiracy theory.
Did you actually buy enough RAM for the Mac Mini to run Java apps on it? Mac OS X is RAM hungry, Java is RAM hungry, and the Mac Mini only ships with 256 megs default.
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