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Inside OS X Mavericks
rjmarvin writes "Apple's era of naming OSs after big cats is over. The Mavericks wave is rolling in, and the first four developer previews have given an inside look at the cutting-edge OS. Users and developers have almost entirely positive things to say about Mavericks, from faster speed and improved stability to new features like iBooks and iCloud keychains. While some installation concerns and errors have arisen, developer preview have improved version by version, and Mavericks is looking good."
Alleged "article" is zero information and all noise. Read at your own risk of brain damage.
From the article:
> He concluded by mentioning that he hoped Mavericks would serve as the bridge between OS X and iOS, allowing his company to make Mac versions of its iOS titles.
So basically this guy is happy that OS X is bridging closer to iOS (because his business stands to gain from this).
How exactly is that supposed to warm my heart as a user who already thoroughly loath the very idea of the "Natural Scrolling(tm)" option on previous updates?
Is it too much to ask for them simply not to break anything and leave me with the halfway-decent UI to a powerful *nix that I am happily using?
I'll wait for the Ars Technica review.
That's why I'm still on Snow Leopard. Sigh.
Look, it can simply be interesting from a tech point of view, without resorting to hate or fanboyism.
I hated... HATED... "Natural Scrolling" when it first came out. But I gave it a week. You push up on the trackpad... screen goes up. You push down, screen goes down. It just feels.. natural.
Now when I use another computer the scrolling just feels weird.
It seems strange that they have the same feature with the same name that essentially does the same thing on both platforms yet they are incompatible with eachother.
Yup. Apple is following Microsoft for a change. Not only in tabletifying their OS but also in their naming of it.
I don't think that's at all true.
Microsoft decided the tablet and the PC were exactly identical, and made one the other at the cost of both.
Apple however, has said a number of times that PC and tablet/mobile OS's are different things, with different needs (and that desktops do not need touch screens, just gestures). While OSX may borrow at times from iOS, and also share frameworks in some cases, the way you use them and the abilities they have remain pretty different.
Just the aspect of Mavericks adding on a lot of welcome additions to multiple screen use including multiple menu bars (something very un-tablet like indeed) indicates a strong separation - for the better.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
You can switch the mouse scrolling to normal in System Preferences.
My spoon is too big.
Will Windows go for ShitPipe?
Curring edge features: interrupt coalescing, memory compression, grand central dispatch, app nap. Amongst others. Having run it since DP1 on my main machine, the only minor issues I have had have been Wifi stability (which looks to be fixed now) and blanked out preference panels in the early DPs for features they were in the process of implementing. Battery life is more than 15% better than Mountain Lion (which is already a lot better than Windows), performance seems as fast or even faster.
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
Performance definitely went backwards from 10.6 to 10.7. 10.7 is the Vista of OS X. A necessary architectural update, but with unfortunate consequences for compatibility and performance. Which was mostly fixed in the following release (and also later point releases for 10.7 - 10.7.4 is much faster than 10.7).
I run: Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD. Just because you have a hammer, doesn't mean everything is a nail.
I bought Parallels 2. It contained a bug in their handling of IPIs that caused host kernel panics on Core 2 processors (i.e. the processor that I'd bought to run it on). They eventually found the bug and fixed it... in Parallels 3. Their solution to the problem of selling me a product that was not fit for purpose was for me to give them more money. I switched to VirtualBox and will never give that company money again. VirtualBox lacks a few of the nice things in VMWare (in particular, it wires all of the VM's memory and doesn't do deduplication), but it's quite useable.
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I think this guy has managed to use the word "nigger" in his posting more times than it is used in Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn". While that is kind of an anti-achievement, I think he has also more than adequately demonstrated his lack of gray matter between his ears. He's probably depressed because it's still hard to get Twinkies.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
Quite unlikely to go from Panther to Mountain Lion, seeing as Panther was PPC only and Mountain Lion is Intel only...
OSX pwns.
"The scrolling, which is a vast improvement for many, ... Autohide scrollbars, again a godsend for many users,..."
Ridiculous hyperbole and utterly false. Things worked the way they did for a reason. The changes suit an agenda, they aren't a "vast improvement" or a "godsend" to any user. They couldn't be regardless of merit.
As the previous poster said about Parallels,
> They eventually found the bug and fixed it... in Parallels 3. Their solution to the problem of
> selling me a product that was not fit for purpose was for me to give them more money
And I'd bet they both learned this trick from the MSOffice team.
Nope. Apple has known this forever. The Rev.1 B&W G3 macintosh had a UDMA data corruption error. Apple's "fix" was to either buy FWB toolkit and disable UDMA (and half a disk's performance!) or to buy a mac ATA card which, due to the mac tax, would cost literally four times as much as buying the same card for the PC, with a different ROM. When they rolled the old TechInfo Library (TIL) into the modern Apple Knowledge Base (KB) they imported articles before and after the one where they describe this problem, but they deleted the article on B&W G3 data corruption in an attempt to hide the fact that they told their customers that they had to spend more money because the product they purchased did not in fact meet specifications (didn't do ATA correctly.) Early Sun UltraSparc machines which I have used personally have the same chip and don't have the same bug.
Nobody has anything to teach Apple about blaming the victim or hiding the evidence.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Well that would explain why it got noticeably slower.