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Apple to Unveil New Leopard OS in August
Max Fomitchev writes "Looks like Apple is going to reveal its new cool and fast Mac OS code-named 'Leopard' in the upcoming World Developer's Conference in August. Good news for Apple! And terrible news for Microsoft. If 'Leopard' is really what it claims to be, i.e. fast and efficient, in sharp contrast to slow and resource hungry Windows Vista, we certainly would see Apple's remarkable market share gain next year."
will it run Ubuntu ??
Sleek, smooth and nobody gives a damn.
I hate taking the role of Master of the Obvious, but the world runs on Windows and shall continue to do so for the immediate future. Despite smarmy advertisements with a "Mac" who doesn't know the meaning of 'touche' (seriously, it's the "Windows" representative that should be calling the Mac on it!)...
Apple's marketshare of the computing world = crap.
Grandma ain't switching. Grandma had enough trouble learning how to use this Lookout thing to send internets.
Gamers ain't switching. Please - gaming on the Mac? It's slightly better than gaming on Linux. A novelty; something you pick up in a dollar store.
Business? Graphic design, reflecting Apple's marketshare, is a miniscule part of the overall world of "Business".
Did Enlightenment* make everyone convert to Linux because it was smooth and shiny? No? Why is that?
It's the applications, stupid.
* Tales of E's bloat were greatly exaggerated. Of course it took more RAM than, say, Windowmaker. Windowmaker looked like My First GUI.
I'm sorry, I don't even know where to begin
Can it play ogg vorbis?
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
Apple really has pulled the wool over everybodies eyes for the past 5 years. This company is no different than Microsoft, just better at marketing to teens. Answer me this: Why is a controlled hardware enviroment any better for innovation than a controlled software inviroment? Apple would have put the screws to everybody and have been the same abusing monopoly as microsoft had they had the money. What really sucks is that the third choice is just as bad. Linux is still dominated by snobbishness that has ruled it since its inception. Linux doesn't want to be the computer for "everybody" it wants to be the computer for people that know computers. No attempt has ever been made to make it easy to use or reduce the learning curve so that it could be an accessable OS. Honestly to all you Linux fanbois if you had started with Linux and never used another OS you would have hated computers and you all know it. If you want to challenge microsoft you would need to provide an easy to master, all hardware encompassing, gamer friendly system that would have a spreadsheet tool that was better than excel (whose power and functionality is approaching dedicated mathematics programs like mathcad/matlab [honestly, this is the best program MS makes anymore and the real reason they dominate industry]) that would ship with the computer. This OS would beat the crap out of all others out there. Give it whatever look you like, any functionality anything, but make it meet those criteria and it will displace windows. Until then, windows is what those of us with jobs in industry and hobbies in gaming are stuck with.
Before you listen to any more drivel by 'AntDude', take a look at who you're dealing with: http://pbx.mine.nu/antdude.jpg. The abortion in the center is 'AntDude'. I won't even get into discussion about him listing his 'sex' as 'female' on his SHITTY 'blog' (aqfl.net). This faggot has nothing better to do than sit on the internet and spew worthless garbage. He's the new LostCluster when it comes to posting utterly worthless tripe. Not to mention his submitted stories! Every single one of his last 10 or so submissions have been tagged as 'lame' or 'slownewsday'. Why does taco even bother posting his shit. Maybe he gets some tiny deformed chinese cock up his taco ass in exchange for some linkspam with google ads? Do the world a favor and never reply to comments from ANTDUDE and mark him as a FOE.
What are they delivering with this new OS??? Are they delivering they type of technology that warrants a new OS version or are they preying on loyal MAC deciples? Sounds like a way to make more money to me...