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Ars Technica Reviews OS X 10.5

Posted by kdawson on from the latin-for-exhaustive dept.

E1ven writes "Ars Technica has published their in-depth review of the newest version of Mac OS X. John Siracusa both covers the user-visible features such as the new UI tweaks and Time Machine, and dives into the increased use of metadata and the new APIs introduced and what they mean for the future of OS X."

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  1. Re:lookin good by prockcore · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most of the complaints about Vista are in relation to drivers. OSX won't even run on AMD cpus... if OSX were actually competing in the same space as Vista, it'd be a laughingstock.

  2. Leopard... by GiorgioG · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was pretty underwhelmed after spending 4 hours downloading Leopard from Apple Developer Connection and the installing it at 5am. Nothing really appeared different. I should note that I've only had a mac for 4 months. I'm generally happy (though I spend more time in Vista 64 than in OS X (work.. .NET)) with the Mac, but I'd be pretty pissed off if I ran out to an Apple store, shelled out $129 to see a pretty reflecting dock menu at the bottom.

    XCode is still a pile of crap compared to Visual Studio .NET.

  3. Re:lookin good by MobyDisk · · Score: 0, Troll

    These types of complaints are common. I think OS X is so overhyped that nobody can see the flaws. It's like the goal is to try and be as unlike Windows as possible, even if Windows has a good idea. Instead of "Think Different" Apple should "Think Better"