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Apple's OS X Leopard In Depth
jcatcw writes "Computerworld begins its Week of Leopard with an in-depth review and image gallery covering Apple's newest version of OS X. Is it worth the wait? Well, Yes. It trumps Vista, of course; the Finder, Quick Look and Cover Flow provide better functionality and eye candy; Time Machine is the biggest undelete ever and the restore function is one of the coolest things we've ever seen; it has iChat; and has lots of updates under the hood. The answer might be no if you're lacking in the hardware department - an FAQ on how to get ready for the new version will help."
The difference between Mac and PC is like the difference between driving an automatic and a manual. Mac's are easy and cool to use, pc's give you some more power and are more difficult.
My secretary uses a macintosh. It's pretty neat. Every time she's asks me to fix it I laugh to myself a little. It is a Fischer Price PC.
If history was different, I might even prefer the apple guys to dominate the OS market. Well, it doesn't work that way.
I ran a benchmark on my quantum computer, now I can't find it anywhere!
The inexplicably single-button mouse? That's a "boner" (...) but apple fans swear by it for some reason
And I'm sure that people who have only done laundry by beating their clothing against rocks in a river swear by their method too.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Subject says it all.
Mac users: Why are you guys so quick to buy minor point releases (ie. bug fixes and a few little extras thrown in) of your OS rather than demand that they be freely available like Windows? OSX was a major point release for MacOS, like XP was for Windows, yet, you've had to pay for what amounts to "service packs" in the world of Windows. Every time Apple fixes stuff with their minor point releases, you purchase it (with the lone exception of 10.1, which Apple gave away free of charge). When M$ fixes stuff, we download it (after going through the WGA crap), install it, and are on our merry way without dropping so much as a nickel on it.
I'm not trying to start a fight here, I really want to know the rationale behind purchasing bug fixes. Yeah, they slip a few goodies in for you (which M$ did for us with XP SP2), but is it really worth yet another $129???
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
Sorry all you Bill fanbois...
I don't get it, I have all of those features on my Linux box with couple of tweaks. And guess what, its open source and it costs nothing.
wtf is everyone so excited about mac?
Its just another propriatery crap os for propriatery crap hardware. Its even worse than windows (hey, at least windows will run on any beige box meaning that I don't have to pay for expensieve hardware and all the apps will run on it)!
really, wtf mate?
Face it, Fisher Price is apt.
Yeah right like you had six graphics cards in 1991.
Whoever modded you troll should get an automatic -5 fanboi.