Apple on Friday denied a report that the computer maker was planning to raise prices for songs bought on its popular iTunes online music store, according to Reuters. "'These rumors aren't true," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Sequeira. 'We have multiyear agreements with the labels and our prices remain 99 cents a track.' Apple's statement came after the New York Post reported on Friday, citing one unnamed source, that music fans may have to start paying more for some songs on Apple's music store following contract renegotiations with the record labels ahead of the one-year anniversary of the store.
I agree with one of the replies that's already been posted here -- 10.2 was a very big upgrade from 10.1, which was even bigger improvement over 10.0.
10.2 delivered Quartz Extreme, which greatly increased the performance of Mac OS X by off-loading all of the graphics to the video card (provided your video card met the specs, which most new and recent Macs did at the time). There were also many other new features, which I won't bother listing here since Quartz Extreme trumps them all in my opinion...
10.3 was a much less significant upgrade. The improvements in networkng were significant but by no means essential to the casual users. The re-written Finder was probably the most apparent change (beyond its GUI change and Expose and the likes), making it much more responsive to power user tasks (moving hundreds of files at a time, etc.). I personally never use Expose, since I've grown accustomed to other means of navigating apps and windows that are much faster and don't require my hands leaving the keyboard.
I received 10.3 as a free upgrade with my PowerBook purchase (and... shh... I also used the discs to upgrade my G4 Server). Would I have paid for it? Probably, although the value was much less to me than previous versions, it's decent enough to throw my support at Apple, since I'm one of those types of Mac users (the same way I renew my.mac account for $99 a year, even though I get maybe $10 worth of use out of it).
I'm very curious to see what's in store for 10.4...
And when that 2004 WRX STi with the four-banger beats you off the line, then what do you say?
Let's throw some rally tires on your car and see how far it gets you. Let me guess, tho, you're a NASCAR fan... *yawn*
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Apple on Friday denied a report that the computer maker was planning to raise prices for songs bought on its popular iTunes online music store, according to Reuters. "'These rumors aren't true," said Apple spokeswoman Natalie Sequeira. 'We have multiyear agreements with the labels and our prices remain 99 cents a track.' Apple's statement came after the New York Post reported on Friday, citing one unnamed source, that music fans may have to start paying more for some songs on Apple's music store following contract renegotiations with the record labels ahead of the one-year anniversary of the store.
- MacNN
I agree with one of the replies that's already been posted here -- 10.2 was a very big upgrade from 10.1, which was even bigger improvement over 10.0. 10.2 delivered Quartz Extreme, which greatly increased the performance of Mac OS X by off-loading all of the graphics to the video card (provided your video card met the specs, which most new and recent Macs did at the time). There were also many other new features, which I won't bother listing here since Quartz Extreme trumps them all in my opinion... 10.3 was a much less significant upgrade. The improvements in networkng were significant but by no means essential to the casual users. The re-written Finder was probably the most apparent change (beyond its GUI change and Expose and the likes), making it much more responsive to power user tasks (moving hundreds of files at a time, etc.). I personally never use Expose, since I've grown accustomed to other means of navigating apps and windows that are much faster and don't require my hands leaving the keyboard. I received 10.3 as a free upgrade with my PowerBook purchase (and... shh... I also used the discs to upgrade my G4 Server). Would I have paid for it? Probably, although the value was much less to me than previous versions, it's decent enough to throw my support at Apple, since I'm one of those types of Mac users (the same way I renew my .mac account for $99 a year, even though I get maybe $10 worth of use out of it).
I'm very curious to see what's in store for 10.4...
And when that 2004 WRX STi with the four-banger beats you off the line, then what do you say? Let's throw some rally tires on your car and see how far it gets you. Let me guess, tho, you're a NASCAR fan... *yawn*