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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.....
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Does this mean that Macs sold after this date come with Leopard pre-installed as well?
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
"And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129."
/.'er, but the bashing of M$ and Vista is starting to get old.
Why does "The Steve" need to bash M$ & Vista at every opportunity? Is it to pander to Apple fanbois? Or does he secretly aspire to be Ballmer? Don't get me wrong, I have a Mac and I don't like M$ as much as the next
This is my opinion. To make sure you don't steal it, it's covered by the DMCA.
hmmm...
Task Mangler
I find it interesting (and funny?) that all these years I've had a PC (built myself, not from Dell or such) and never once purchased a copy of Windows or felt bad about it. Now that I've had a Macbook Pro for 5 months, and have been so happy with it, I'm eagerly awaiting Leopard so that I can actually buy it.
I'm trying to avoid the whole fanboy thing, but it's hard to not like it. I mean, the pricing of the hardware is certainly high, but once you dive it it's quite nice.
I will shred my adversaries. Pull their eyes out just enough to turn them towards their mewing, mutilated faces. Illyria
I still dont see a reason to go there. But then I also still use an incredibly outdated G5 2.3Ghz Dualcore Power mac.
The premium price I will have to pay, I usually use the wife's student ID to get it cheap but not anymore with the latest raft of Apple pricing, makes me yawn and let it slide past.
Is there anything that really is important in it that is a must have or is it all eye candy like apples website makes it look like?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'm looking forward to the release, but I don't think I'll buy it until the first patches come out. A lot of press said Panther and Tiger were pretty solid, but I found a lot of little "quirks" and bugs that needed squishing after the public release. It's also inevitable that I'll have to work around some new "feature" in some of my photography scripts because something tiny changed. And then there's the impact to various macports which I'll have to wait for patches (or learn enough of the codebase to hack a fix).
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"Why does "The Steve" need to bash M$ & Vista at every opportunity?
C o m p e t i t i o n - the American way.
Reminding your core customers why your product is better than the crap sold by the other guys is not new.
Maybe you'd prefer no advertising at all - wouldn't we all...talk to MS about that idea and let us know when they stop laughing.
will it run on the old G4's ?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html
Automatically hourly incremental backups to an external disk, with everything done readable in the filesystem as simlinks so you can look at arbitrarily hour-snapshots for the past day, day snapshots for the past month, and weekly snapshots thereafter.
COOL!
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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.
A G4 (unfortunately). I have to use Gnash instead of Flash (Gnash isn't complete yet) - however I can boot OS X whilst running Linux using MOL (Mac On Linux).
What gets even older than that is the spelling of Microsoft as MS. Stop. It makes you appear laughable.
I found this product release that you may find interesting. Curiously it seems to be the anti-thesis of your recent 'Vista' release.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/
"And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129."
Today, more people are using OSX than Vista, and at Vista's current growth rates, this may inevitably remain a fact.
Sucks to be you,
Tman.
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For purposes of that claim, people without Apple hardware aren't really people. It's part of the old-school Apple mindset.
From the Dictionary Section:
"Wikipedia in Dictionary
Harness the power of Wikipedia when you're connected to the Internet -- built right into it's Dictionary. You get a great Mac OS X user interface with super-fast searching and beautifully laid out-results."
From the Parental Controls:
"Wikipedia Content Filter
Limit access to profanity in Wikipedia."
Huh...interesting.
That's it, just a string of buzzwords, not even grammatical, followed by a link to "learn more". Somebody attended too many marketing or web2.0 presentations. Or maybe they want to put the mystery back in. Turns out, it automagically configures an "instant network". The intro is curious. Does the "ethical community" description mean that security sucks?
to err is human, to forgive is divine, to forget is... umm...
300 reasons to upgrade: http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html
Another 300:
Steve Jobs: [points to Microsoft Programmer behind Baller] You there, 'Softy! What is your profession?
Microsoft Programmer: I am a trainee QA, sir.
Steve Jobs: [points to another 'Softy] And you, what is your profession?
Microsoft Guy: 3rd level branch tester, sir.
Steve Jobs: Branch tester.
[turns to a third 'Softy]
Steve Jobs: And you?
Microsoft Guy: Graphics guy, I repainted XP to make it Vista...
Steve Jobs: [turns around to OSX Team] Apple Employees! WHAT IS YOUR PROFESSION?
Apple: HA-OOH! HA-OOH! HA-OOH!
Steve Jobs: [turning to Ballmer] You see, old friend? I brought more mac than you did.
Microsoft: A thousand downloads of the 0day Vista sploits will descend upon you. Our BSOD's will blot out the sun!
Apple: Then we will iLife 08 in the shade.
ok. any excuse for 300 quotes.
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If translucency were so great in the real world, we would be printing on onion skin and writing on glass things. But I think translucency is more to show that they can do something in 3d, done by people that have no real vision as to what to do with it.
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OS X version 6. The differences between 10.0 and 10.5 are enormous, especially internally, pretty much in the same way that BSD and Linux have evolved over the past seven years.
wow, so despite the previous poster saying that linux has "most of the features" of leopard, it seems FLASH PLAYBACK isnt one of them. yeah you linux geeks are way up there with tech!
What is...?
I'm glad it is true now, and that price is amazing as well. Now if also Pixel http://www.pixelimageeditor.com/ comes out of Beta state until end of the year, that will make me trully happy!! Again good job Apple, can't way to buy Leopard ASAP!
Photoshop for Linux? Wine? No. http://www.kanzelsberger.com
If they offer it free to people who recently bought Macs? I recently started a new job as did a fellow coworker and we both received new Mac Pro's within the last month. It sure would be nice to get a Leopard upgrade.
I would think about buying this except that my mac mini can't even handle the OS it has right now. It runs terribly slow (bearly usable) just running a web browser, iTunes, and an IM client. I can't image how slow my computer would run with these new features.
I do security
I follow some of the Apple 'rumor' sites. Curiously there are no known updates on the Mac Pro and the Mac Book Pro seems to be rumored for an upgrade in the Winter. Apple seems to be weaning off the Mac Mini (as I hear the Mini has had poor sales). It seems new hardware will have Leopard included but will not be upgraded.
Consider most iMac users will *require* an enclosure if they want to use Time Machine as it will only work with an add-on drive and not on the system disk.
This leaves me to ask, will we see a go-between on the Mac Pro and the iMac? I'd really love to see a lower cost tower than the Mac Pro. Expandable hard drive bays, upgradable video card and an extra DVD drive in the same case would be most welcome. My iMac G5 is in need of replacement and the footprint of the system when I account for the external DVD and dual-HDD enclosure doesn't make it seem as worthwhile for space saving.
Something else that is interesting about this is that it will be the first untied x86 version -- you can actually buy a x86 version of MacOS without buying Mac hardware to run it on.
Linux doesn't have flash playback on a G4, no. Linux systems running Intel or AMD have had it for some time now, though. Troll.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Troll? he commented on a Mac related article making claims that he's better of with Linux, but he cant play back one of the most common multimedia formats on the internet. yeah im totally a troll.
What is...?
Yup.
OS X rocks but I'm really disappointed in my year old macbook hardware. I was seduced by all those stories of 4-5 year old ibooks (or whatever the powerpc non-pro laptops were called), but I think I'll be lucky if mine makes it to 18 months (I think an expensive screen repair is coming up). I guess the extortionate applecare needs to be factored into the original purchase price. I'm regretting not getting for the macbook.
The Developer's Kit is all open source - it installs gcc; python, perl and ruby are included by default, PHP can be enabled in the included version of Apache, there is good documentation to build Ruby on Rails or most other frameworks that you want. I've never used the IDE myself but there are plenty of Other Ways to Do It - ranging from Eclipse to TextMate (very powerful text editor with hooks into most compilers) and Coda from Panic, which is perhaps more designed as a web development IDE but is beautifully featured for that purpose.
Lets see... Windows 95 came around 1995, few years later there was Windows 98, couple years later we had windows ME, couple years after that we had Windows XP. Only Vista has been a long upgrade cycle, and aren't we all glad they took the extra time to make sure they got it right on Vista?
Aero though probably the most known feature of vista is not necessary for its day to day use. If your computer can't handle aero turn it off. Aero is not Vista, its a feature that requires a shit load of power from the computer. If your going to bash Vista at least make a comment on its drivers, its UAC, its old file system, its many other bugs and let downs.
Hell Aero doesn't even come with every version of vista. But when you turn it off you basically get a sp3 version of windows XP. I'm not a fan of Vista, I use Ubuntu on my desktop and XP on my laptop(had to downgrade from Vista). Every OS that I have upgraded to(windows based OS) has required some hardware changes, I mean windows 95/98 had a shit less requirements then XP.
The 'ultimate edition' bit is Jobs jab at Microsoft's Heinz-57-varieties-of-Vista. $129.00 is how much Apple always charges for OS X.
XCode also works for C, C++, Objective-C++ (mixed Obj-C and C++), Java (depreciated, other than for WebObjects development), AppleScript (AppleScript Studio), and can work for Perl, Ruby, and Python (all for creating native apps thorough the bridges to Obj-C). All of this is focused on producing MacOS X Apps.
And once you get into Obj-C you will find a great environment, especially if you can stay in the Cocoa world and not dip down into Carbon.
This is much more than a service pack,
Leopard
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Has it fixed the automounter and NIS? probably still crap covered by a metallic finish.
And you've done what, exactly, with it? Your vision is where?
Just because you don't do things such as writing on translucent materials or glass things doesn't mean the rest of us don't. Not all technology is for every person. For example, those who actually build things by hand (quilters, seamstresses, wood workers, metal workers, etc.) quite frequently use translucent or clear materials for patterns, templates, and sometimes finished products. How about clear measuring cups? I've seen chefs use clear containers and mark various levels and information on them using erasable markers. Then there is the clear surfaces with map inlays used by tactical planners and tac-rooms. In the Army, decades ago, we would use clear or translucent materials over maps to create different plans and routes, and lay them over various maps. Oh, and waaay back in elementary, junior, and senior high school, and lo even in college, transparencies were used in classrooms with overhead projectors. I've seen the use of transparent or translucent overlay "technology" used in the real world by police, firefighters, medical personnel, construction crews, demolition crews, surveyors, etc..
So since many of us DO use it, translucency (or transparency by your reference to glass) by your own argument IS great, and you simply lack the vision to make use of it, right? It isn't translucency that is overrated, it's your post.
My Suburban burns less gasoline than your Prius.
I coded a lot in C++ with Carbon.
There is a spark in every single flame bait point.
That's no service pack... it's a space station...
Bow-ties are cool.
Using google currency converter:
129 USD In SEK:
129 U.S. dollars = 828.979584 Swedish kronor
and the list price for apple store sweden:
1.195,00
hmm
1195 SEK in USD:
1 195 Swedish kronor = 185.957535 U.S. dollars
So thats a 56$ premium. I don't think so.
Congrats, apple. You just won a pirated copy of Leopard!
...was the day Doc Brown completed the first test of his Time Machine.
What a bunch of geeks.
..students represent the long-term viability for a company. Between students and pirates (which are largerly interchangeable terms, anyhow), a large body of young people become familiar with a particular OS/Company/Way.
Once those young people get older and are responsible for making large purchasing decisions (or even moderate decisions year after year), the companies benefit.
It's called a "loss-leader", and is EXACTLY the same reason bars have happy hour and sell wings for a quarter between 7 and 9.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
More people are driving all GM vehicles combined than Toyota Priuses.
I'm not even sure if your statistics are correct, but it's pointless to say that more people are using the last six versions of OS X than are using the last one version of Windows.
There's a lot of good things to say about OS X; say those things instead of trying to manufacture a half-assed attempt at populism.
If the Mini hadn't sold well, they would have dropped it by now - not did a minor update to it a few months back.
I know a number of people that have minis, and like them (the new Intel versions are a lot more powerful than the older G4 ones).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I don't own a Mac and have only touched OSX a few times on friends machines (and at school) but I find the fact that applications never seem to really be able to maximize and there are huge amounts of wasted screen space. Now I know you can auto hide the launcher thingy on the bottom but it just seems to function worse than the newer start button designs. Am I missing something?
Eric
You can buy Tiger which is currently universal as well.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Insert FUD here ...
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While I certainly appreciate the fact that Apple keeps their OS X versions under control, it's a bit ironic that he takes a jab at Microsoft with the "everyone gets the ultimate eversion," when the second announcement on Apple's home page is "Apple Announces Mac OS X Server version 10.5 Leopard."
What? Two versions?
In any case, there's a lot more sanity with Apple that MS, and I've been a solid convert to OS X (not for fanboi reasons, but because it lets me get my work done with silliness, dammit!). I'm very much looking forward to Leopard; my main concerns are related to application compatibility, especially low level utilities and apps (like Insomnia, device drivers, Parallels, and such). Hopefully we won't need new versions of those to transition smoothly to Leopard; I'll probably run it off an external USB drive at first, to make sure. This will be the first operating system I've ever purchased personally (and I will do so enthusiastically).
-dale
Love many, trust a few, do harm to none.
How much of that is tax? In many parts of the US the final amount will be 7 or 8% higher than $129.
...for someone who opted for AppleCare on their MacBook. Apple will not TOUCH your system if it has a pirated copy of the OS on it.
As it is, the Student Discount is down to $13, compared to the $60 discount students got on systems from Puma to Tiger. So screw it, I'm not going to mess with Apple Store for Education anymore. I worked at Fried a few years ago so I was one of the first to have one of those spiffy transparent green credit cards. Looks like I'll be lining up there a week from Friday. 64-bit goodness is too good to pass up.
Anyone know if Rosetta has been improved and/or made 64-bit aware? Considering some of my apps are still PPC-only (Office 2007, Photoshop Elements v.4 Mac) it's an issue.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
After the sixth version is released, we mac developers still probably won't have an Apple-shipped Cocoa API for regular expressions...sigh.
I guess that giving developers the ability to add cutesy animations to applications is more important than giving those application developers ways to scrape information off the internet and display it to users in useful and innovative ways.
Given that every other desktop development environment and every scripting language ships with built-in regular expressions functionality, Cocoa is starting to look extremely uncompetitive, at least from the standpoint of doing any significant work with strings of text.
Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!
"I find the fact that applications never seem to really be able to maximize"
Those bastards, someone should take Jobs out, nail him to the back fender of a car and then drive up and down the highway - ALL WEEK !!!
Re:Question about OSX....
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Many individual educational sales have been replaced by institutional sales, where discounts are much higher than they were before.
Apple wants institutional over individual because some of the insitutions are buying more than 50% apple hardware now, and it's easier to target the real educational sector.
I love your completely unqualified reasons for OS X sucking. I mean, the depth and the logic is so immense it floored me. With an argument like yours, I now know I was foolish for embracing Apple. Time for me to make the switch to PCs.
I'm not sure if i remember this correctly, but didn't Apple say they would be ending support for boot camp 'beta' as soon as Leopard came out? (i.e. every version that isn't leopard)
Are our XP boot camp partitions that we have now just suddenly going to stop working? I can see people getting really pissed about that, myself included!
On an interesting note it looks like it supports Vista properly now as well. I never wanted to just do an upgrade of my XP in case that stopped working.
I think the age old Apple rule applies. I certainly won't be upgrading to 10.5 until it's at least 10.5.1, and people find workarounds for all the problems that will inevitably come from this upgrade
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.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I'm trying to avoid the whole fanboy thing, but it's hard to not like it. I mean, the pricing of the hardware is certainly high, but once you dive it it's quite nice.
"It hurts...at first. But after a while, the pain goes away, just as they promise. There's a moment...when you can almost see it through his eyes. He makes it sound perfect, a place where anyone can start over."
Riddick would kill you with a Leopard Install disc for joining the necro-Mac-ers (sorry, the whole scene popped into my head as I read your post).
Actually, I'm looking forward to agreeing with you. If the rumors about the new Mac Mini/Nano are true, I might be getting my first Mac soon.
Hard to justify when a nice desktop linux install is up & humming, but a Core2Duo Mac the size of paperback, with Mac OSX 10.5, for several hundred dollars? Too neat to pass up.
Than a very large Windows upgrade fee, whenever it comes.
It might be exhausting if you didn't feel like you were getting value for the money, but as it stands each release has had a few things that were very useful - and as you said, often with nice updates to system frameworks.
It's also helped that each release has felt faster, so buying a new copy of OSX also replaced a hardware boost I typically underwent with Windows updates.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
The eye candy is okay and all but the things I'm looking forward to are at the core. The new Leopard scheduler is reason enough alone to upgrade. With a multithreaded networking stack the days of disconnecting a network share without ejecting it will no longer mean 5 minutes of the beachball of death.
Plus those with multicore CPU's should run, not walk, to Leopard. From the Apple website:
"NSOperation, a breakthrough new API that optimizes applications for the world of multicore processing. Independent chunks of computation (operations) are added to NSOperationQueue, which dynamically determines how many operations to run in parallel based on the current architectures. So there's no need to hand-code the complexities of threading and locking. You simply describe the operations in a program along with their dependencies. Cocoa takes care of the rest."
Leopard features improved scheduling, memory management, and processor affinity algorithms to make better use of multiple cores. Several subsystems (TCP networking, AutoFS automounter, and NFS server) have been rewritten to be fully multithreaded. Also, POSIX thread allocation has been optimized to support the new NSOperation APIs.
Leopard gets the best possible bandwidth from both broadband and narrowband networks by optimizing buffer sizes according to the local resources and connection type. Starting with a larger window helps TCP with ongoing dynamic optimization. This is especially valuable when connecting to high-bandwidth/high-latency networks like Verizon's FiOS, which previously required specialized tools such as Broadband Tuner.
The new IOStream class in IOKit provides a high-level API for managing DMAs and other high-bandwidth data transfers, without the need to optimize caching strategies for different hardware architectures. It also forms the basis of the new IOVideo family, designed to support professional-level video cards. These new APIs make it easier for developers to take full advantage of both cutting-edge and previous-generation hardware.
This means real speed benefits are coming down the road for Leopard apps running on Intel Macs or any dual cpu or dual core PPC Macs. Plus anyone, regardless of hardware, will benefit from the dynamic TCP optimization and the new IOKit API's. The real question is whether the loads of eye candy will "cancel out" the low-level improvements from a user-experience perspective.
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.
But when you turn it off you basically get a sp3 version of windows XP
Soooo... then WHAT is Vista?
Thanks for playing, though. I don't think --link-dest does binary diffs/deltas, though, does it? If you modify a large file, it will create new copies of them rather than keeping track of the deltas. While this might be a good thing from a reliability standpoint, I could imagine that it could quickly cause your backups to get quite large.
I can't quite figure out how Time Machine works, but I think its operation is closer to rdiff-backup than rsync --link-dest. If it's not, the space requirements for it are going to be huge.
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Right, could that be because Vista was delayed five odd years?
What were the gaps between Win98, WinME, Win2k, WinXP - to be fair WinME & 2K were for different market segments initially - oh, could they be about two years or less? I'm not the biggest fan of the continues updates from Apple either, but trust me MS would be doing the same thing if they could actually ship something out the door at a regular interval.
I'm going to hang back on ordering this. It's a year late, and Apple still haven't managed to release the Gold Master to developers. My feeling is that in order to get it out on time it hasn't been as well tested as previous versions.
You're lucky, turns out my Windows upgrade was 6 years late and it wasn't even worth it - well at least IMHO.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
About the only exception I'd make to that is memory - if you go to the default Apple Store, and add memory that way, you're pretty much guaranteed to get screwed (which is sad, especially considering how easy it is to upgrade the memory in Apple's notebooks yourself).
That's one thing I don't like about Apple's pricing. I recently bought a Macbook Pro with 2GB RAM, 4GB was an option however it was a few hundred dollars more. Buying RAM elsewhere only cost half that, unfortunately the warranty won't cover Macs with third party RAM installed, so I've been told by someone at Apple. I couldn't justify the added cost at the tyme so I asked about adding more RAM if I found out I needed it.
FalconShould there be a Law?
Mr. Ballmer? Is that you?
.....So how would they know?......
They won't know, but your conscience (if you still have it) knows you are dishonest. It is because of people like you that MS is forced to make life difficult for all the honest folk of this world, It if were not for guys like you, Windows computers would not have to call the mother ship every ten CPU cycles to check whether the software is not a ripped off copy. I hope Apple doesn't get forced to resort to crap like that because of the likes of you.
All theory is gray
Don't waste your time. People who continue to trot out this service pack crap every time apple releases an OS have heard all this over and over again. They will continue to troll as long as it gets a reaction. Don't even bother.
If you wanted to reply to this you could have said something like "If I got a Dell with XP instead of vista I woudl be psyched that I didnt have to look at that vista UI all day, it would save me wiping vista out and replacing it with XP"
IF you wanted to reply.
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In each and every case you site, the user can composite the items in a single unit of work, and move the thing as a whole, and that facility is entirely lacking in a desktop GUI.
.NET, and, in a networked world, it's arguable whether or not you should even applications stepping on each other's data the way OLE originally envisioned.
.maybe KParts or Gnome's component stuff?
The need to do that compositing tends to exist within an application, rather than across a desktop. There's probably applications now for each of the items on your list. Photoshop has layers, as do GIS applications, which can sorta select and see things that line up on top of another. Animation packages put frames next to each other so you can seperate them out, and so on.
From an engineering perspective, if you -really- wanted to use translucency for something at an OS level, you would need to have a few more things. Simply moving windows around on top of each other doesn't really buy you much. You need to have data shared between applications, a common way to represent that each application represents a slice of a larger data set, and finally, each application is looking at something that is stackable within that set. That way, you could fire up "my super paint", draw something, launch a word processor application, and put the super paint on top of the document by simply moving it across. Really, it would be a whole different kind of metaphor, where instead of cut and paste, you just moved one window on top of another that created an integrated thing.
Presently, the only people that even thought of windows applications as views into a shared data set were Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft's OLE, for example, was sorta designed around the idea that one application could composite other applications... that's how if you drop an excel sheet into Word, when you double click, the word menus change to excel - you are actually running an Excel on a data stream that is sitting inside of a Word document.
Pretty cool stuff, but the Internet just killed it, as did a deserved reputation for being difficult to program. The MS guy that wrote the Bible on the topic (Kraig Brockschmidt), wound up taking off and moving into some sort of a commune. Today, there's not an ounce of support for anything like it in
Theoretically, though, with OLE plumbing in place, MS could create a new set of interfaces that allow child windows to be stacked on top of each other, and views to be coordinated, and do that. Think, multiple Active X controls on steroids, but with data aware methods to coordinate multiple layers.. then, you have to have it be out of process communications, to support different applications... like OLE was. (Active X controls were a sort of dumbed down version of OLE).
I don't even know if Linux has an analog to it..
But the bottom line is, you gave a bunch of real world examples that work because the user can do some things that the translucent desktop gimmick really doesn't let them do. There's aggregation of views, selection, moving... a lot. Simply making a window see through doesn't even come close to satisfying the requirements of what you want to do. Thus, I stand still correct - translucent windows are a fraud.
So... even though you are totally wrong, and I am totally right, I thank you for the opportunity to elucidate my ideas further, in hopes of saving those who lack the superior insight that I seem to possess. [that is of course, tongue in cheek!]
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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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Did you just get here? Regardless, you might want to take some notes here.
If you are a Linux apologist, and some given piece of software or a file format doesn't work with Linux, it isn't Linux's fault. It is the stupid file format. That file format is stupid because it doesn't support Linux and the company that owns it is stupid by extension and it is only popular because everyone is just a sheep and doesn't know what you know. If an application won't run on Linux there is either a 1:1 FOSS replacement that does or no one needs the kind of functionality the app provides and everyone else who uses it is just a stupid sheep following the crowd.
If you claim for years that what Linux really needs to be popular is for a big time computer maker to offer it pre-installed, and after that happens it is revealed that it still only represents a couple of percent of their shipments, well then there must be some big conspiracy to hold back Linux.
If you think software is hard to install on Linux you are stupid. Look in the repos, everything anyone could ever need is there even it most of it is half maintained. If you need something that isn't available in the repo or in a DEB or RPM or apt-gettable or any of the other 50 or so half working package managers, you are stupid.
If you think some other operating system is better than Linux you are either a shill or stupid or ignorant or all three.
And this isn't even touching on the inter-distro stupidities. Stupid Mandrake users.
Well, on the other hand, maybe if windows were cheaper and didn't have the same restrictions, more people would buy it retail? Apple hasn't seemed to feel the need to add more copy protection schemes over the years, even when software like iWork DOES have serial numbers.
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 can't wait to try Spaces. I am addicted to virtual desktops. Linux did that to me.
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2 years ago I bought the "family pack" of Tiger, which allows you to install on up to 5 machines in the same household. We only had 2 Macs, but at $199 it was still cheaper than buying 2 copies of the single-license OS. As near as I can tell, the only thing that made the 5-license box different from the 1-license box was a sticker and a 1-paragraph license addendum. Other than that, there was no reference to it being a multi-license pack anywhere, including on the DVD itself.
No special installer, no licence keys to enter, no product activation, just a piece of paper that says, "Yes, you can install this on more than one computer."
It was nice to see that they were willing to trust their users. Though I suppose since it'll only run on their hardware, they're a bit less concerned with people pirating the operating system.
A mate bought a MacBook several months ago and even he got a free Leopard upgrade voucher. But it was before it was delayed.
I got my Macbook Pro in August just about 2 months ago but I didn't get any sort of upgrade offer. Maybe if I went down to the Apple store I could get it, but to tell the truth I don't see anything it offers I would like. Time Machine? I got backup software with my MBP. About the only thing I was looking for, a long shot, was Leopard having Windows APIs so Windows software could run in OS X without needing Windows.
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I like how a selling point for bootcamp is that Leopard can read and write to Window's (FAT32) partition, not NTFS. Yes, go ahead and install windows vista on a fat32, see what happens.
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an update version of xp that doesn't work with all of your old hardware :P
What gets even older than that is the spelling of Microsoft as MS. Stop. It makes you appear laughable.
And does using MSFT bother you also?
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I have the same concerns, I think though it will still be a bit faster just based on them probably having optimized the CoreImage code that's doing all the fancy stuff... could be part of the reason why the floor on installs is 867MHz G4's though. I still plan to try and load it on an older G4 667MHz powerbook mounting as a firewire drive from a different computer though. I can always revert!
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I'm planning to buy both the OS and iLife in one go (save a few bucks on shipping, because I'm a tightwad), so until the OS is released, I'm... borrowing a very publicized serial number. The only consequence? They made Software Update blind to updates to iLife '08. That's it.
Well, all I know off.
Most folks find it useful to be able to spend as much money as they need to on the features they want, without having to pay extra for features they won't use.
And what about paying for "features" you don't want? Like Activation, WGA/WPA? I used to be a Windows user but in part because MS wants to treat me like a criminal I switched, I am typing this on a MacBook Pro.
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I had to look it up to be sure...
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OK. I'd like to put Vista on my Atari 800. Oh! You mean I get to pick what kind of *Windows* PC I want to run on.
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Leopard (Mac OSX 10.5) is not a "service pack" for Tiger (Mac OSX 10.4) any more than Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1) was a service pack for Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0). Version numbering schemes don't always mean the same thing from company to company or product to product, or even make sense at all.
That said, you do have a point: I've noticed myself that when a new version is released of Mac OS, or any Linux distro that I use, my first inclination is to buy it or download it, then do the upgrade when I have the time. With Windows, my first inclination is to sit it out and wait for the first service pack. I've been trying to figure out why that is, and the best I can come up with is that while bugs tend to slip through on most OS releases (and get fixed via updates over the next few weeks), Windows often seems to have issues that aren't just bugs to fix, but design issues that need to be changed... and therefore need to wait for a service pack, rather than just a hotfix.
Of course, if you really want to see Apple fans griping about giving money to Apple, go back a couple of weeks and look at the comments on the iPhone price reduction. Apple users aren't immune to the "but I just bought it for $X!" phenomenon -- there are just some things they're willing to pay for.
How dare they try to make good software and sell it for a profit!
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you have to pay the Apple tax on what is essentially an over-priced PC
Where have you been lately? Apples are not overpriced. Some similarly specified Macs and Windows PCs are generally similarly priced. In some cases the Mac is lower priced and in other it's higher priced.
most Windows 'purchases' come when you buy a PC
The same with Macs. I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro I bought about 2 months ago and just as the PCs I've bought came with Windows preinstalled so did my MBP come with Tiger preinstalled.
So why not compare the price of a similarly equipped and similarly capable PC to a Mac, and then tell me which one is cheaper?
I have, have you? Before I bought my MBP I compared prices between similarly configured Macs and PCs from different OEMs. With some configurations the Macs were cheaper and with other the PCs were cheaper.
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Fight for your digital freedom, join the EFF *now*: http://www.eff.org/support/
That has to be my favorite example of joke/filler text that made it to a release, followed by Firefox's "Cookies are delicious delicacies." That one was so popular, someone wrote an extension to put it back in.
Though I have to admit, the hundreds of website legal disclaimers including the phrase, "you actually came to this page" are hard to beat.
Wrong! Vista overtook the entire install base of apple within 5 weeks of launch.. check your numbers
Not having flash playback is one of the features I enjoy the most.
...but you must be new here.
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i hate to be the one to bring it up, but Ubuntu 7.10 won't cost me a dime...
But what will Ubuntu give me that I can't get with OS X? Having switched from Windows I'm typing this on a MacBook Pro I got about 2 months ago. Before I got it I had planned on dualbooting it with Ubuntu but now that I have it I'm wondering just what installing Ubuntu will give me or allow me to do that I can't do now. On the other hand I've got a PC running Linspire Linux and I've been thinking about installing Ubuntu on it as a server.
FalconShould there be a Law?
...or does that cost extra?
I was expecting some mention of ZFS - did it get removed from the features for leopard? I thought it warranted a mention if it was there, Dtrace did.
Actually, it would seem that it is that fact that he's running Linux on a G4 that si the root of his inability to play flash videos. It's not ao much a Linux issue, as Adobe has a flash player and plugin for Linux, which works quite well. Pick up all of the details of the situation before forming an argument. PowerPC... Superior, indeed. Blast! Now you've got ME trolling, too!
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
Quite amusing. However, I wasn't blindly defending Linux. I was pointing out the fact that Linux can, in fact, play flash files, with an Adobe-created-and-supported player. That the player does not run on a PPC CPU has nothing to do with linux; how much longer will Adobe maintain the PPC/OSX version of flash? Nobody can say for sure, but I wouldn't hope for a PPC/OSX version of Flash 10.
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Step. Step. Step. Step. Step. Drat! If stepping through code wears you down, you'll love more forgiving debugger in Xcode 3.0. If you step too far, you can rewind to the previous point. That's right, Xcode 3.0 has gone non-linear. Simply click the run button to update your application and start it up. Hover over a variable in your code to see its value in a tooltip. Then just pause when you need to debug. If you go too far, just rewind. No need to start over. No need to set up a debug session. No need to switch focus. Just code, build, run, and debug in Xcode 3.0. What ever happened to it? Hopefully it will be included in some not-too-distant-future version.
If you do any development, the Xcode update in Leopard look quite nice.
It's my guess you don't need Leopard for the XCode update. A few days ago I got a dvd from Apple with new developer tools and software updates. But maybe it doesn't have all the updates that comes with the Leopard tools. Being new I now have to learn how to use them.
FalconShould there be a Law?
he maximizes return on the share holder's money by minimizing expenditure and maximizing cash flow (though the actual mechanisms can vary.)
Otherwise he can be:
1 looking for another job (shareholder revolt)
2 looking for a defense attorney (when the SEC caught on,)
or
3 working for a private capital company (in which case the SEC has nothing to say.)
or
4 scrabbling in the dirt, digging his own grave with his bare hands. ("Tony Soprano" is a major investor.)
Regardless, these 'savings' programs are always couched in terms of 'insuring future customers' just like product recalls are.
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but I don't think I'll buy it until the first patches come out.
I don't see any need to get Leopard. I got my MBP 2 months ago and have no problem with Tiger. Well other than it doesn't always let me save a file where I want to.
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Applications, Applications, Applications is what average users want.
Good thing that you mention that: OS X comes with almost no applications out of the box, while Ubuntu comes with hundreds of applications that satisfy almost everybody's needs. To get OS X to anywhere near the functionality you get out of the box with Ubuntu, you need to spend many hundreds of dollars.
Developers are attracted to OS X by frameworks that make it a breeze to rapidly develop your application without having to reinvent the wheel.
Good thing you mention that, too, since great development environments are another reason to prefer Ubuntu to OS X. XCode and Cocoa are really quite cumbersome and limited compared to MonoDevelop and Gtk#.
So, you are absolutely right: users care about applications and developers care about development environments, and both are far better on Ubuntu compared to OS X.
It sounds like the Fleetwood Mac song called "Stand back". Here is the YouTube video if you like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOU746O9klE But back to your original subject of step back which will be great feature. I had enough times due to late nights that lost track what the heck I did to get that error what forgot what location I did it at.
I don't think there's a retail Intel version of Tiger out. After all, why does there need to be. EVERY Intel Mac has shipped with Tiger and Tiger install disc. So exactly who would buy a universal copy of Tiger?
Someone who bought a used Intel system that did not come with a replacement disc, for one... if they were unfortunate enough to have the current hard drive crash without a full system backup.
This has to happen to some extent, so it seems like there has to be some way to get at least an Intel tiger disc apart from buying a new system. Like I said, I was pretty sure that recent boxed sets were universal but I'm not positive, and can't figure out now how to verify one way or the other. I suppose the local Apple store may have boxes but the question is not so urgent I feel the need for a visit.
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It has supported sound on any laptop and desktop I have installed it on, and I'm using some pretty obscure hardware.
If you really have an unsupported sound card (which one?), buy a new one or a USB sound dongle. That's still a lot cheaper than buying OS X.
Or, better yet, buy a machine configure for, and with Linux preinstalled. After all, you don't buy a PC to run OS X either, do you?
and what suits them best, and some people work differently, there is no end all for everyone.
Nor did I claim there was. If you say "I use OS X because I like the colorful beach ball", that's fine. But if you say "I use OS X because it has more applications and better development environments", it's reasonable to point out that the statement following "because" is not necessarily factually true.
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how long does it take to copy a 17 megabyte file?
Well according to Netcraft, you have 15% percent of my attention. You are attempting to qualify and quantify multiple viewpoints into a conflated mess of anti-Apple. It just doesn't hold water. Don't conflate when you type your hate, you're making me irate when you berate the great-est OS released to date!
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When will iWorks '08 support ODF? OOXML?
I suppose Apple will leave iWorks XML as the file format for it's product suite and ODF/OOXML for TextEdit?
No Star Wars R2D2 Hologram Effect in iChat?! Dealbreaker!!!
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From the 300+ Leopard features page:"Harness the power of Wikipedia when you're connected to the Internet -- built right into it's Dictionary. You get a great Mac OS X user interface with super-fast searching and beautifully laid out-results."
Oh dear.
Nice plug, but I don't think 'consistent' would best describe Ubuntu. Just my opinion, though.
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'More' is factual. 'Better' is opinion. Just FYI.
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The person to whom you responded didn't say at all that they pirate software. You read that into his comment.
As far as I'm concerned, I pre-ordered the family pack of Leopard today. I also have legally purchased copies of 10.4, 10.3 and 10.2 which is when I switched to Apple. One of the things I appreciate is that Apple doesn't treat me like a criminal when I am installing legally purchased version of their operating system. I reward that behaviour by doing the right thing and buying their operating system.
In contrast, I have lost track of the number of Microsoft products I have bought over the years. This includes two licenses of Windows XP Pro. I have become so sick of being treated like a pirate by Microsoft when installing LEGALLY PURCHASED SOFTWARE that I now just install the cracked versions.
So don't assume that just because someone says you CAN pirate software, it means that they are.
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Most people use the Deja Vu control panel that ships with Roxio toast. Sure, you may not want to buy toast, but it is the best app for burning cross platform disks, far more control than with the burn folders setup in the finder.
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There are LOTS of laws you can break along with making a buck (and are probably breaking.)
Ignorance of the law is not MY problem. If you're asking this question, it might very well be YOURS.
I worked on an expert system which had governmental regulations as a domain. You wouldn't believe all of the contradictory rules we found in the R&R (Rules & Regulations) manual.
Basically, if you were able to get ANY money from that department, its because somebody up there liked you.
Run afoul of the management (ANYBODY in the management,) and you were out of luck and had just made a generous donation to the department.
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It was nice to see that Apple (unlike many American companies) is apparently actually aware of the fact that the US and Canadian dollar is effectively at par now - Leopard is $129 USD, and $129 CDN.
A refreshing change from the recent string of companies which are simply choosing to ignore the currency parity, and continuing to gouge Canadians for 20 or 30 percent phantom currency exchange.
My MBP works fine. My wife's MB works fine. My mother's MB works fine. My sister-in-law's MB works fine. My kid's MBP worked fine - until he got in a car accident from which he really shouldn't have walked away, but for which I'm very grateful he did. They put the car on the flat-bed in pieces - multiple pieces. That accident dented his case above the CD slot, but I was able to push it back enough to allow the CD / DVD to insert and eject, so I guess you could say it still works fine. All of these, except my MBP (9 mos, give or take), are over a year old.
As they say, YMMV...
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I'm calling shenanigans. iLife doesn't have a serial number.
Perhaps you're thinking of iWork?
All the boxed Tiger DVDs are the same--PPC. I just picked one up to examine at the Apple Store the other day while waiting for an iPhone repair, since I'd never seen a retail packaged Tiger.
If you have a Mac and have lost your restore discs, you can bring it in and they'll reload the OS for you. You can also order replacement restore discs for your system if you're the registered owner, or at least you used to be able to. That solves the replacement problem.
......I have become so sick of being treated like a pirate by Microsoft when installing LEGALLY PURCHASED SOFTWARE......
I have given up on my regular PCs entirely, but I still have some Windows programs I like to use. So, to get around MS onerous anti-piracy measures, I installed my legally purchased, duly activated, Billy G. blessed Windows OS in a virtual machine with Parallels on my new Macbook. It works great. Since I have a backup copy of the clean, activated, updated HDD file, I was able to recover from some problems easily by just copying the backup HDD file onto the Mac. The MS anti-piracy system doesn't get triggered, since it has no way of determining any changes. If I wanted to, I could copy the backup to any number of Macs, but that would be dishonest. I have also turned off Internet access to the VM, since it is not needed for what I want to still do with Windows. That means no malware can get in and no regular updates or anti-malware software is needed.
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I'll second the thought that rsnapshot does this trivially.
I just reinstalled, but messed up xorg.conf. Sure I could have taken the time to look through and figure out exactly what went wrong, but instead I just compared the current file with one of the versions from a few hours before.
That and reinstalling rsnapshot was as easy as grabbing the rpm and copying rsnapshot.conf (and the cron setup).
I don't want the ultimate version, I'd just like the late-2006 JDK 6 version.
You know, the "I wish I didn't regret buying a mac for Java development version". The one on the shelf next to the "Boy I'm glad I didn't donate my old Linux thinkpad since its all I have for Java 6 development" version.
My mac is great -- unfortunately I don't get to turn it on much these days.
Same old story. . .
1) Apple starts doing great
2) Profit!!!
3) Apple gets really egotistical and forgets that other developers exist. (And thinks that archaic languages like Pascal and Objective-C are the only games in town. While coming up with some platforms external developers can't code at _all_ for like the iPhone, early Newton, etc.)
4) ???
5) Struggle for a few years and almost die!
6) Repeat
I wish they'd "Think Different" this time. Here's what I would suggest.
1) Support cross-platform development languages so developers could choose their platform (think Java) above others.
2) Support cross-platform standards for documents like Oasis/open-office formats instead of the egotistical AppleWorks, ClarisWorks, Pages hubris. That way they don't almost die when Microsoft decides not to upgrade Microsoft Office for 8 years or so.
3) Support developers that develop for their devices instead of handcuffing them with bogus languages on their main platform (languages that no-one knows or cares to know in the general industry) or worse, disable them from writing real apps like on the iPhone.
4) Make laptops that don't burn the users' genitals.
5) Be less secretive about things that aren't new features and don't need to be secrets. (Like APIs, and platform development - like JDK development).
6) Listen to the users even _after_ they get popular. It seems they score huge points with users after creating stuff the users want, then they completely ignore them for years until it is too late.
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This was true for the DOS shells, but not for NT. NT's evolution under Dave Cutler was designed as a pretty close workalike of VMS, and was originally a microkernal design. In some senses, then, it could be argued that NT's foundations are around a decade later than OSX's BSD core, but I don't place much faith in rating an OS by its recency,or lack thereof.
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My mother-in-law has a 800 MHz iMac. Spec calls for 867 MHz. I wonder what would happen if we tried to upgrade her to Leopard.
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Not all x86 systems are built for Windows making them a "*Windows* PC" like you appear to be implying.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Have you finished masturbating over UNO?
What is...?
'More' is factual. 'Better' is opinion.
That's incorrect. "Better" simply refers to some implicitly assumed criteria. User interface experts know what those are for user interfaces and development environments, and it's factual question how XCode and Linux development environments compare. You may disagree factually, but it's not a matter of opinion. Just FYI.
Well, this is something one can actually evaluate objectively. From observing Gnome and Mac users, my impression is that the result of an objective evaluation would be that it's at best a toss up or that Gnome wins.
Since this is a Leopard thread, it's probably worth pointing out that Rails is pre-installed on 10.5 :)
The easy way to set up Rails for development (not deployment!) on Tiger is to download Locomotive, as it avoids clashes with the rather out-of-date version of Ruby that's already installed...
Never mind Spamassassin. When's Spammerassassin coming out?
You are probably right. I just remember iMovie kept telling me that there was an update, but every time I started Software Update, it reported 'All Software Up To Date, Please Sever Your Leg'.
:)
Won't be an issue for long, though
I have had a look at http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html and I have to say that some of those "features" that the iWorld are going to have to cough up for, are quite laughable. Six of these features are screensavers - SCREENSAVERS people! Twenty-four of these "features" bundled into an update for iChat and include such innovative things as 'More Smileys'. Oh dear. If Microsoft attempted to get away with this kind of marketing, they'd be fighting lawsuits in Massachusetts or the EU by now.
I don't need to go too deep into the blatant if, latent copying of "features" already found in Windows. I never thought I would ever be able to utter the words 'Cupertino, start your photocopiers' but some of those features look remarkably similar to what we've already seen in Windows Vista for almost a year now. Even Mary J Foley has her doubts http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=505
This is the sixth iteration of version 10 since 2001 and it's going to cost yet another $129 to upgrade. It's been plagued with delays and I think Apple aren't really bothered that much - they are treating their core users with utter contempt. I really believe that Apple is going to swiftly move beyond the traditional desktop arena pretty soon. They've already lured their user base onto x86 so that when they cut 'n' run, you be able to jump to another x86 platform. OK, that's probably a little far-fetched but seriously, I think they're not that bothered about trying to compete with Microsoft feature for feature on the desktop anymore - they may even abandon it altogether and instead focus entirely on swallowing up the lucrative digital multimedia space using an embedded flavour of their OS. Then they can update it with much less scrutiny.
This is not true, and I have no idea where you got that impression. The discs that came with your Mac work on all other Macs with compatible processor architecture (except possibly newer Macs which may contain hardware the installer disc does not know about). Were you by chance trying to install an Intel version on a PPC Mac?
Do you honestly believe that there is only one factor contributing to the current situation? If it only were the 90/10 situation, you'd expect Mac OS X to have 10% as many viruses as Windows. Or maybe 1% as many. That's not the case: OS X has 0 viruses. Even System 7 had a few viruses. Even HyperCard had its own viruses! OS X has none.
Why is IIS hacked more often than Apache, even though there are more Apache installations than IIS installations? Maybe popularity is only one of the contributing factors, and not the only one.
First of all, option-clicking the "zoom to fit" button often maximizes.
However, if you often want to maximize, you're probably doing something a bit wrong. "Zoom to fit" tries to zoom the window to fit its contents. There is hardly ever a need to make a window bigger than "zoom to fit" made it. So don't. The space around the window is not wasted, you can use it for windows from other applications. I usually have Adium, Skype and a list of mailboxes with unread counts down the right side of the screen so I can always see who's online and who sent me mail. when working on code, I have java.sun.com open in a small window next to my window with the code, so I can quickly jump there and look up some API, or keep checking out Sun's examples when coding.
The wasted screen space is inside maximized windows, not outside zoomed windows.
There are many ways you can use the empty space around your windows, I'm sure you can figure out something :-)
So? It's still an advantage for Macs. Oh, wait, maybe they don't allow this because it is an advantage for Macs??? SUE THEM!!!
Most apps that you can easily install in Ubuntu look like crap (at least that was the case about a year ago when I set up my MythTV box, which I've replaced about two months ago with a Mac mini).
Also, Macs come with iLife, and a whole bunch of other apps. I kind of doubt anything on Ubuntu can compete with the likes of Garage Band, iPhoto or iMovie.
No. 'Better' is a comparative form of 'good', and calling something 'good' involves a value judgment.
You can't factually verify whether something is objectively 'good' or not. Even the selection of the criteria is subjective.
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Hmmm. That sounds more like you haven't installed iMovie 08. It won't install on a G4, it requires a G5 or later, but it will sometimes keep whining about there being an update.
Don't worry about it too much - iMovie 06 is MUCH better.
Got Intel, foo'! :)
Anyway, I'm not losing sleep over it. She'll be right in a few days.
Almost no users will ever change the operating system that their computer came with, anyway. The people who want to buy a Dell and run OS X on it are definitely in the "power user" category--and they're the ones least likely to need Apple support.
Besides, Microsoft has shown that it is possible to create a stable OS that interacts with third-paraty drivers. It's taken them a while to do it, but it's there. Apple should be able to do the same thing--they just don't want to because they make their money on the premium hardware. As for low end machines I actually want everything I get on a Mac. I use wi-fi, bluetooth, and so on. So if I'm going to have to spec a machine with the same spec as a Mac and like OS-X why not just buy a Mac! Those components don't add much to the cost of Dell laptops. Hell, I don't think you can even configure a Dell notebook without wireless anymore, and Bluetooth modules are about $30. But as should be obvious, the reason to "not just buy a Mac" is that there is a premium on the hardware, and there is an increased cost. If it's worth it to you, by all means, buy one, but don't try to pretend that a cheaper machine wouldn't take you to the same Internet, let you perform the same tasks, etc.
I think that's a fair post. My personal laptops probably have as hard a life as possible without it actually being 'abuse'...
Still, I'm disappointed with the 4 stuck pixels and the faint light patch on the screen (which has spread over time), the track pad button that has a frustratingly inconsistent and cheap feel, and a dodgy creaky hinge. My last laptop was a cheap generic rebranded thing, but had a heavy well made chassis and only failed after the second orange juice incident (having been revived after the first one).
Shouldn't a consumer laptop (like the macbook) be built to be moved about, with a chassis that can take the stress? A macbook pro is more likely to be sat on a desk all its life, given the size?