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OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th
David in AZ writes "According to the Apple website, Mac OS X Leopard will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store. "Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""
It used to be that for software anyway, the student discounts represented a significant savings, which was great for poor college students. But starting with iWork and iLife it seems that the student discount is only about 10%. So whereas Tiger cost $69 for the edu version, Leopard costs $116.....
Monstar L
Very likely. Its also likely if you just (within a week or two ago) purchased your mac you might be able to get the new version free of charge. I know this happened with my parents computer and Panther awhile back.
Not likely, but you have the ability to get Leopard cheaply if you buy a Mac after October 1st.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
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Yes, http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
867MHz+ PPC.
Here's a list of all the new features: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
I'm praying that it's not just more bloat like Vista. It seems like Leopard is good on paper, better Boot Camp for those who still need Windows; better iCal for the people who use their Macs for organizing their life; Instruments, Core Animation, Unix certification, built-in Sandboxing for programmers; and other doodads for Joe-user such as a cooler Photobooth... But then, do I need my address book to make calls to Google Maps or the OS-wide dictionary to reach out to Wikipedia? Those last two are cool but I get worried when my "OS experience" is tied in anyway to whether I have network or Internet access.
There's a lot that was done on the base level that will improve general usability. Finder is fixed (we hope). It's UNIX compliant now. Better use of 64-bit and multi-core processors.
Also, some of the "eye candy" will be very useful: easy backup and multiple desktops built in (I've been using a 3rd-party solution for this for a while now that works remarkably well, but has a number of glitches).
I'm not beating down the door for 10.5, but I am looking forward to some of its conveniences.
In order to maintain the longevity of the OS X name, full milestone upgrades of OS X are called point releases. People lambaste OS X for that numbering convention, as if OS X milestone releases are not as significant just because Apple isn't moving the first digit of the version number with each release. It's a really stupid critique, FWIW.
Part of the hardcore faithful who believed in Apple long before it was cool again to do so
Finder *is* definitely much improved. On a lower end system, its much faster and has enough features and speed increase it makes using Path Finder negligible.
No, didn't know they had ever.
You likely have too little ram (let me guess, a pathetic 512mb stock right?). Bump it up to 2gb, and the Mini will be great.
Mini had poor sales because it was priced too much for the hardware contained. This was more a result of their inability to keep it refreshed. The price is fine when first released, but they go so long between refreshes that it gets to be quite expensive for the hardware contained...
If you bought it on or after Oct 1 Apple will cover you for a shipping fee (they are usually $20):
http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
To be precise, Time Machine utilize hard links, not soft.
It's pretty useful this way, because practically it make every
snapshot 'complete' by itself.
Time Machine has been frequently compared to Microsoft's Shadow Copy (or Volume Snapshot Service), because both systems involve file backup. In reality, they are not really very similar at all. Microsoft uses the background Shadow Copy service to duplicate files on the same disk. Those shadow copies record a "snapshot" of the file at a given moment in time, and can be accessed by the user using Previous Versions (which shows up in the file properties viewer), or tapped into by an external network backup system. Backing up these "shadow copies" simply prevents the external backup system from running into problems trying to back up live files that may be locked by the user working on them. The data backup features related to Shadow Copy are only useful if a Windows machine is running in an environment with a server backing them up. Shadow Copy is not in itself a backup system, although it can present a listing of duplicated files that were captured by the shadow copy service. Without a dedicated backup system, Previous Versions only shows local shadows of a file. It does not copy files to an external disk for safekeeping, and its shadow copies can't be browsed through by the user in the file system by date or by query. Shadow Copy is certainly not an easy to use consumer backup solution (nor is intended to be), which is what Time Machine expressly is.
In Windows Vista, Microsoft also tied Shadow Copy into System Restore, which allows users to roll back their entire PC software install to a previous point in time. This is not a backup system either; it's a system wide undo. System Restore is oriented around undoing the problems caused by installing a software title, a Windows software update, an unsigned hardware driver, or some other event that causes problems that need to be rolled back. It doesn't go back and find something lost from the past; it reverts the clock to a previous checkpoint and throws away the future from that point forward. System Restore is not even loosely related to Time Machine in what it does, how it does it, or why it exists.
Microsoft does the same and sometimes Windows point releases cost as much or even more:
Windows 3.0/3.1/3.11
Windows 4.0 a.k.a. Windows 95
Windows 4.03 a.k.a. Windows 95 OSR2
Windows 4.1 a.k.a. Windows 98
Windows 4.9 a.k.a. Windows ME
Windows NT 5.0 a.k.a. Windows 2000
Windows NT 5.1 a.k.a. Windows XP
Windows NT 5.2 a.k.a. Windows 2003
And the gaps in release dates of the above aren't a lot different from the OS X ones, maybe a bit larger (1.5-2 years vs. 1-1.5 years) and they have some clever naming system since 1995, but then so does Apple (Panther, Tiger, Leopard)
RogerWilco the Adventurous Janitor
How much of that is tax? In many parts of the US the final amount will be 7 or 8% higher than $129.
Looks like the rumors were true: G3 support has been dropped. Also my G4 Cube no longer makes the cut.
I guess I won't be buying the 5-seat license version after all.
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It was generally true at the time.
Hey look, things changed over a few years! Imagine that!
Except for the fact that you can run pretty much every OS out there on an Intel Mac.
You do realize that
1) Sales tax is about 7% in the states and NOT included in the listed price
and
2) Sweden sales tax is 25% and INCLUDED in the listed price.
Network your computers and smart devices instantly. Meanwhile, Bonjour is nothing new. It's just a Zeroconf implementation, and it's been around since 2002, so the marketing droids likely aren't at fault.
I think it's pretty clear that the culprit was some kind of filler text on a template or a joke. This is probably the web team's fault and no one else's.
So you can laugh all you want to...
You do realize that 298 of those 1195 SEK are tax, right? So subtracting that out, you get a real price of 897 SEK, which is only 68 SEK more than the US price, or about $10.60 USD.
I doubt that you'd be able to order a US version and have it shipped to Sweden for less than $10 in shipping.
Seems like a pretty fair price to me. Maybe you should vote for politicians who support lower taxes if you don't like it?
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You're either high, or hopelessly out of touch.
1: When's the last time Apple released a GM to devs? When was that? If you've been in the dev seed program at all in the last three years, you'd know that the seeds are most certainly available for devs, and when there's a GM, the product ships.
2: 10.5 wasn't "out on time" due to to dev team reprioritization to the iPhone project. Everyone else appears to know this.
3: You say it hasn't been well tested in order to "get it out on time," yet it's also "a year late." Your schizophrenia clashes with your tie.
Seriously, were you just making shit up there?
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I am going to second this. There are a lot of great RegExp libraries available for Cocoa that have some great developers behind them. The shining one to me would be OmniGroup's OFRegularExpression (http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/). It has an easy license to work with, and is easy to embed in a project. Why should Apple spend resources trying to rebuild what is already there (or spend money updating it) when OmniGroup already has an interest in keeping it up-to-date?
Actually, as Vista is VERY different under the hood, it's NT 6.0. 2000 was NT 5.0, XP was 5.1, and XP x64 was NT 5.2.
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Now it says ``Network your computers and smart devices instantly.'' Someone at Apple must have agreed with you.
There's a good description in this article.
From what I understand, the new version of Finder is written in cocoa which fixes a lot of the problems mentioned. Also, they rethought how people will want to interact with the filesystem by emphasizing spotlight and categories over the physical metaphor of folders within folders. I'm anxious to try it out.