Actualy, the reason that support for pre-G3 was discontinued was because of the same reason that support for the 68k processor was discontinued with 7.0.
Actually that was Mac OS 8.5, I have 8.1 happily running on my Quadra 700.
1) Yes, I am running Photoshop 7. It's carbon and a true example of using carbon to evolve a classic app to a "first class citizenship" application.
2) Yes, it's carbon. Did I state otherwise in my post?
3) I guess I'll have to wait for Photoshop 10 for this to happen. Final Cut Pro 7? Dreamweaver MXXXX? Application written in cocoa can still be crap. There are numerous examples of this. On top of that there are inconsitencies between cocoa apps (text engine and what-not) that Apple have to sort out. Cocoa is not the end-all-be-all API of OS X applications and will not be for at least half a decade into the future.
4) See 3), and while your second statement might be true, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
Actually they don't. You can't run Internet Explorer for OS X on Mac OS 9, that's why they keep releasing separate versions. Photoshop and Lightwave are both Carbon-applications. Photoshop flies on OS X and uses native OS X technologies to boot. It can run in OS 9 as well. But not noticably faster. I would support Apple's claim of the first class citizenship of carbon applications.
Apple is at the technological frontier at some areas (floppy disk, mouse, GUI, GigaBit Ethernet, FireWire, removal of the floppy drive), but still slower in some areas (RAM, system bus).
But look, the iBook is a consumer notebook. Do you want to trade speed for price and battery life? Why didn't you get a TiBook instead then?
Look, you seriously don't want your TiBook generating that amount of heat. Leave it open, put a DV-cassettecase in there or whatever. Air circulates through the keyboard and like you shouldn't block the air duct on a cube, you shouldn't block that vent either.
HOWEVER, if you want to take the risk, here's how to do it: Restart your computer, then immediatly close the lid. Your TiBook will now boot only with the external monitor (or TV). This will acheive what you want, and is useful for watching DVDs on a TV.
I urge you to open the lid anyway however due to the heating-issue mentioned above.
My desktop uptime is a solid 35+ days now (at work, can't check the total), my laptop has almost that much as well.
I can't remember the last time I crashed. Apps go down now and then, but I hardly even notice it. Internet Explorer and beta-software seems to be offenders.
I have had one kernel panic, and that was when I used my TiBook in FireWire target-mode (as a hard drive) and I accidently had forgot to plug in the powercable and the batteries ran out after about 5 hours...
Get off it already, the X Window System is clearly inferior. Windows is also a "real standard", but I don't see anybody (apart from Microsoft) claiming that it's superior.
It is this kind of this attitude that validates proprietary systems for the benefit of the end user. And that's what really counts.
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Actualy, the reason that support for pre-G3 was discontinued was because of the same reason that support for the 68k processor was discontinued with 7.0. Actually that was Mac OS 8.5, I have 8.1 happily running on my Quadra 700.
1) Yes, I am running Photoshop 7. It's carbon and a true example of using carbon to evolve a classic app to a "first class citizenship" application.
2) Yes, it's carbon. Did I state otherwise in my post?
3) I guess I'll have to wait for Photoshop 10 for this to happen. Final Cut Pro 7? Dreamweaver MXXXX? Application written in cocoa can still be crap. There are numerous examples of this. On top of that there are inconsitencies between cocoa apps (text engine and what-not) that Apple have to sort out. Cocoa is not the end-all-be-all API of OS X applications and will not be for at least half a decade into the future.
4) See 3), and while your second statement might be true, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
Yeah, how about it?
The fewer designers who care about optimizing for the Netscape 4 series, the faster the world can move on to real standards...
Actually they don't. You can't run Internet Explorer for OS X on Mac OS 9, that's why they keep releasing separate versions. Photoshop and Lightwave are both Carbon-applications. Photoshop flies on OS X and uses native OS X technologies to boot. It can run in OS 9 as well. But not noticably faster. I would support Apple's claim of the first class citizenship of carbon applications.
Those who do, replace IE (a plenty viable browser for causual surfing) with the speed demon known as Chimera.
Apple is at the technological frontier at some areas (floppy disk, mouse, GUI, GigaBit Ethernet, FireWire, removal of the floppy drive), but still slower in some areas (RAM, system bus). But look, the iBook is a consumer notebook. Do you want to trade speed for price and battery life? Why didn't you get a TiBook instead then?
Except the fact that this would be real-time photo-realistic 3d, not pre-generated 2d images...
According to the article, the technology has already been used to port Wipeout 2097 to the mac.
That didn't help them including the original soundtrack though. What happened to Chemical Brothers, FSOL and Prodigy??
LOL! The running gag of Mac OS X updates.
One of these products should probably help. And most are freeware too...
Minesweeper games - Your choice (cue awwws): Mega Minesweeper.
Look, you seriously don't want your TiBook generating that amount of heat. Leave it open, put a DV-cassettecase in there or whatever. Air circulates through the keyboard and like you shouldn't block the air duct on a cube, you shouldn't block that vent either.
HOWEVER, if you want to take the risk, here's how to do it:
Restart your computer, then immediatly close the lid. Your TiBook will now boot only with the external monitor (or TV). This will acheive what you want, and is useful for watching DVDs on a TV.
I urge you to open the lid anyway however due to the heating-issue mentioned above.
I'm seriously disturbed by the one that says: "SmarterChild loves you too"
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Sounds like some funky hardware failure to me.
My desktop uptime is a solid 35+ days now (at work, can't check the total), my laptop has almost that much as well.
I can't remember the last time I crashed. Apps go down now and then, but I hardly even notice it. Internet Explorer and beta-software seems to be offenders.
I have had one kernel panic, and that was when I used my TiBook in FireWire target-mode (as a hard drive) and I accidently had forgot to plug in the powercable and the batteries ran out after about 5 hours...
Get off it already, the X Window System is clearly inferior. Windows is also a "real standard", but I don't see anybody (apart from Microsoft) claiming that it's superior. It is this kind of this attitude that validates proprietary systems for the benefit of the end user. And that's what really counts.