In my power saving settings on the macbook pro it says that it will turn of the harddrive as much as possible, and that is the only option, do it or don't do it.
I've been thinking about how bad it may be earlier and now I wonder even more. Does anyone know how agressive OS X is? Shall I let it be on or off?
Many hacks are probably just as stable as the real thing.
Software updates already "bricks" them by your definition, new versions will probably contain a few binaries with the encryption still intact so someone needs may need to fix that. Even more so if you run SSE2 or AMD because OS X are built for SSE3 so someone needs to add emulation.
"in the same way that the iPod won over a lot of users to the Mac"
We use to hear that, but what are the proofs? I don't want a stinking iPod, I wanted a mac and now I got one. Atleast after they got USB who cared? And even before that did people really buy macs just to be able to use an iPod?
Apples modell are probably more to make something consumers want. And the same price for all are easier for the consumer. Thought imho it would be ok with higher price tags for new music and lower for old. Different prices would be ok aswell, I won't buy from iTunes store anyway..
Wants wrong with "overcharging" on the iPod? Apple can set whatever price they want for all I care, I won't buy that either. And it's not overcharged considering how many they sell, obviously it has a good price for what is offered or noone would buy it.
The old assumption that displays are 72dpi has been rendered obsolete by advances in display technology. Macs now ship with displays that sport native resolutions of 100dpi or better. Furthermore, the number of pixels per inch will continue to increase dramatically over the next few years. This will make displays crisper and smoother, but it also means that interfaces that are pixel-based will shrink to the point of being unusable. The solution is to remove the 72dpi assumption that has been the norm. In Leopard, the system will be able to draw user interface elements using a scale factor. This will let the user interface maintain the same physical size while gaining resolution and crispness from high dpi displays.
The introduction of resolution independence may mean that there is work that youll need to do in order to make your application look as good as possible. For modern Cocoa applications, most of the work will center around raster-based resources. For older applications that use QuickDraw, more work will be required to replace QuickDraw-based calls with Quartz ones."
So increase the text/UI size, that's the whole point of resolution independence, and get sharper/better looking graphics in return.
Mine has 1440x900, I would never had bought that if 1680x1050 was available, and I would probably take 1920x120 if possible, even more so with leopard.
I'm not a business user, I would much rather had my Amiga back then than my mac now.
Regarding BeOS people seems to have liked it, I haven't used it.
IMHO all Linux distributions suck, and I write it all together as UNIX because I don't think the various unixlike oses are different enough to count as multiple oses, GNU/Linux dists even less so. I do prefer FreeBSD over all of Debian, Gentoo, SuSE or Fedora but that doesn't mean it would make a world of a difference to me if I ran FreeBSD, Debian or Gentoo.
I wouldn't count OS X as BSD, or "UNIX" in this regard, since it's different from the rest.
Yay, more versions of Windows, how awesome... Now you can choose of bluescreen version, less bluescreen version, a little more bluescreen version, bluescreen + nothing works version, stable but not for homeusers version, modern stable not for consumers version, modern stable DUPLO version all of which is insecure and last better looking but nothing works version. Oh the joy of choices! More or the same plz!
Be isn't around. Neither is OS/2, or AmigaOS, or MacOS classic, why count dead bodies?
Your points suck and there were still more options back then.
But no playlist would suck, if it's not possible to make some sort of "virtual folder" in OS X which contains content which matches a search criteria? Is it?
If only there was plugins for iTunes which brought the functionality. I guess this is the problem with a closed OS.
You missunderstands it all. First guy probably have an IBM-PC and complains that he can't install OS X on it. The later guy tries to be funny buy saying as he does because his PC are to old to handle Vista.
I don't know what Acronis does but it backs up your machine automatically whenever it gets its chance daily and let you pick up a single file from an older version without having you care about how it's done. And it's always there.
I don't know, I don't have it installed yet and some of your questions would be hard to answer as a user anyway. But I'll try:
Activation: No. Phoning home: I guess you get the normal registrationscreen, but you used to be able to quit that with command-q and you probably can now to. Installing on multiple computers: I know that for old modells people have said the discs was the same. Just that the box said 5 computers and not 1. Anyway since there are no registration you can install it on how many computers you want, althought that will break the license of course. Protected video path: What do I know? Just don't consume DRM content and it won't matter, right?
Hopefully someone can give you better answers, but I think for the first three questions you don't need to worry.
It's still there on the developer pages, not just on the "consumer" pages. Thought we still need high-DPI screens, and who knows if that will ever happen until Microsoft makes an OS which does well on them. How large are the market for high-DPI screens if they won't be used by any PC users?
Konqueror is replaced with whatever the new file manager is called in KDE 4 but the new one looks amazing. And AFAIK KDE would run on more OSes, including OS X, so you will probably be able to get your KDE file manager within OS X later, which will rock! And sweet sweet amarok!
If tiger doesn't run OpenGL 2.1 an updated OpenGL may be sweet aswell.
Regarding file managers I liked Directory Opus 4 on Amiga, Magellan was ok aswell althought different. DOpus is available for Windows these days, but I doubt we'll see it for OS X. There is always PathFinder thought, which atleast is different. Midnight Commander may work aswell I guess?
I had no idea about that one, and it exist for plenty of OSes and look very DOpus4-like! Sucks that they use ".." to go backwards thought, since that gets hidden, in DOpus4 you pressed the left or right border of the screen which is much faster because it's always there even if you have plenty of files and it's easier to hit with your mouse.
6. Prices fall on items manufactured in a company with cheaper workers. 7. Incomes falls in your country because there are to many people for to few jobs. 8. You get hired again for what you are actually worth on a global market. 9. Since stuff are cheaper to produce your dollars can buy more stuff.
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In my power saving settings on the macbook pro it says that it will turn of the harddrive as much as possible, and that is the only option, do it or don't do it.
I've been thinking about how bad it may be earlier and now I wonder even more. Does anyone know how agressive OS X is? Shall I let it be on or off?
Or it may be, what do I know, Steve Jobs coming back and make new attractive computers with a new OS?
Thougt brand recognition probably helps to.
Many hacks are probably just as stable as the real thing.
Software updates already "bricks" them by your definition, new versions will probably contain a few binaries with the encryption still intact so someone needs may need to fix that. Even more so if you run SSE2 or AMD because OS X are built for SSE3 so someone needs to add emulation.
Everything could be shorten down to BS thought.
"in the same way that the iPod won over a lot of users to the Mac"
We use to hear that, but what are the proofs?
I don't want a stinking iPod, I wanted a mac and now I got one.
Atleast after they got USB who cared? And even before that did people really buy macs just to be able to use an iPod?
And what would Apple earn on that? I doubt they can make as much money on their OS as they can of their OS for a lower price + hardware now.
OS X are only 129 dollar now but without any income from the hardware that would probably change, and how many would pay?
Apples modell are probably more to make something consumers want. And the same price for all are easier for the consumer. Thought imho it would be ok with higher price tags for new music and lower for old. Different prices would be ok aswell, I won't buy from iTunes store anyway..
Wants wrong with "overcharging" on the iPod? Apple can set whatever price they want for all I care, I won't buy that either. And it's not overcharged considering how many they sell, obviously it has a good price for what is offered or noone would buy it.
Hey, he don't know how to make money, of course he should be given some from Apple.
Regarding "profit" I guess he can start his own 5 dollar per tune music store and he will be rich I tell you!! Everyone will buy his music!
All I want is almost free infinite download of all music and all movies where all the money goes to the producers.
But this thread is about Leopard, which can do it.
http://developer.apple.com/leopard/overview/
"Resolution Independence
The old assumption that displays are 72dpi has been rendered obsolete by advances in display technology. Macs now ship with displays that sport native resolutions of 100dpi or better. Furthermore, the number of pixels per inch will continue to increase dramatically over the next few years. This will make displays crisper and smoother, but it also means that interfaces that are pixel-based will shrink to the point of being unusable. The solution is to remove the 72dpi assumption that has been the norm. In Leopard, the system will be able to draw user interface elements using a scale factor. This will let the user interface maintain the same physical size while gaining resolution and crispness from high dpi displays.
The introduction of resolution independence may mean that there is work that youll need to do in order to make your application look as good as possible. For modern Cocoa applications, most of the work will center around raster-based resources. For older applications that use QuickDraw, more work will be required to replace QuickDraw-based calls with Quartz ones."
So increase the text/UI size, that's the whole point of resolution independence, and get sharper/better looking graphics in return.
Mine has 1440x900, I would never had bought that if 1680x1050 was available, and I would probably take 1920x120 if possible, even more so with leopard.
Well the OS works and there are some pro apps for it.
But I would have prefered if there was more revolutionary upgrades of course, that may not be so realistic but anyway.
It hypes a little to much, it's not like it would make a world of a difference if you run tiger or leopard, thought updates are nice.
I think not, but it's a shame Apple doesn't use them. (The high DPI 15.4" LCDs that is.)
I'm not a business user, I would much rather had my Amiga back then than my mac now.
... Now you can choose of bluescreen version, less bluescreen version, a little more bluescreen version, bluescreen + nothing works version, stable but not for homeusers version, modern stable not for consumers version, modern stable DUPLO version all of which is insecure and last better looking but nothing works version. Oh the joy of choices! More or the same plz!
Regarding BeOS people seems to have liked it, I haven't used it.
IMHO all Linux distributions suck, and I write it all together as UNIX because I don't think the various unixlike oses are different enough to count as multiple oses, GNU/Linux dists even less so. I do prefer FreeBSD over all of Debian, Gentoo, SuSE or Fedora but that doesn't mean it would make a world of a difference to me if I ran FreeBSD, Debian or Gentoo.
I wouldn't count OS X as BSD, or "UNIX" in this regard, since it's different from the rest.
Yay, more versions of Windows, how awesome
Be isn't around. Neither is OS/2, or AmigaOS, or MacOS classic, why count dead bodies?
Your points suck and there were still more options back then.
That's good and all if I wanted to play a few Video formats, but I didn't =P
No module or sid support there either, and Quicktime wouldn't be that great for music anyway.
But no playlist would suck, if it's not possible to make some sort of "virtual folder" in OS X which contains content which matches a search criteria? Is it?
If only there was plugins for iTunes which brought the functionality.
I guess this is the problem with a closed OS.
True but unrelated, I haven't said that it's good that peoples salaries differs a lot.
And they have high salaries no matter what.
You missunderstands it all. First guy probably have an IBM-PC and complains that he can't install OS X on it. The later guy tries to be funny buy saying as he does because his PC are to old to handle Vista.
Uhm, earlier we had Amiga, Atari, MacOS, BeOS, "unix" and Windows.
How do we got more choice now? Atleast in big enough OSes to count.
I don't know what Acronis does but it backs up your machine automatically whenever it gets its chance daily and let you pick up a single file from an older version without having you care about how it's done. And it's always there.
But I guess you already knew about it so far?
I don't know, I don't have it installed yet and some of your questions would be hard to answer as a user anyway.
But I'll try:
Activation: No.
Phoning home: I guess you get the normal registrationscreen, but you used to be able to quit that with command-q and you probably can now to.
Installing on multiple computers: I know that for old modells people have said the discs was the same. Just that the box said 5 computers and not 1. Anyway since there are no registration you can install it on how many computers you want, althought that will break the license of course.
Protected video path: What do I know? Just don't consume DRM content and it won't matter, right?
Hopefully someone can give you better answers, but I think for the first three questions you don't need to worry.
It's still there on the developer pages, not just on the "consumer" pages.
Thought we still need high-DPI screens, and who knows if that will ever happen until Microsoft makes an OS which does well on them. How large are the market for high-DPI screens if they won't be used by any PC users?
What use are the cube? And isn't it taken from OS X user switching in the first place?
Konqueror is replaced with whatever the new file manager is called in KDE 4 but the new one looks amazing. And AFAIK KDE would run on more OSes, including OS X, so you will probably be able to get your KDE file manager within OS X later, which will rock! And sweet sweet amarok!
The buy cinema tickets widget!! I'm amazed that found its place in Steves 10 features list at WWDC07, kind of prove there wasn't much intresting ;D
I guess ZFS may had been one of those top secret features. Or under the hood changes. Or stuff they haven't had time to finalize yet.
If tiger doesn't run OpenGL 2.1 an updated OpenGL may be sweet aswell.
Regarding file managers I liked Directory Opus 4 on Amiga, Magellan was ok aswell althought different. DOpus is available for Windows these days, but I doubt we'll see it for OS X. There is always PathFinder thought, which atleast is different. Midnight Commander may work aswell I guess?
OMG, second hit on OS X file manager gave me this:
http://www.mucommander.com/
I had no idea about that one, and it exist for plenty of OSes and look very DOpus4-like!
Sucks that they use ".." to go backwards thought, since that gets hidden, in DOpus4 you pressed the left or right border of the screen which is much faster because it's always there even if you have plenty of files and it's easier to hit with your mouse.
6. Prices fall on items manufactured in a company with cheaper workers.
7. Incomes falls in your country because there are to many people for to few jobs.
8. You get hired again for what you are actually worth on a global market.
9. Since stuff are cheaper to produce your dollars can buy more stuff.