I am also having no problems. I personally have four systems running Leopard and I have absolutely no complaints. (One 'Aluminum' C2D iMac, one 'White Plastic' C2D iMac, an original MacBook Pro with C1D, and a Mac Mini with G4). All of my systems have been happily and speedily going along. No crashes, no headaches.
I use a wide variety of applications on these systems ranging from off-the-shelf games to command line utilities installed through MacPorts. Therefore, and expectedly, there were a small handful of applications I had which did not work immediately after Leopard's release. However, they have all been updated in the meantime and are now working great. In my case, none of these apps were remarkably critical; all of my most important applications worked just fine throughout. As a side note, gaming on my Macs seems to have received a noticeable boost in performance since moving to 10.5, which is really great.
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Yes as is pretty clear from what you've read or from the fact you can't get Steam started, something isn't quite right at the moment. Some accounts are able to log in right now, and some aren't.
Please be assured that if you are having problems, it is only temporary and your accounts have not been lost or damaged or otherwise compromised.
I have received word that it's being worked on, and the Steam crew hope to have things back to normal for those with problems very soon.
PS I turned off forum search to help with the load. We're being slashdotted right now plus obviously a lot of you are coming here to see what's up. We'll turn it back on soon.
Speaking from personal experience, I myself was in much the same boat as you. Since I rarely spent more than a half-hour or so away from some computing device which contained my entire music collection, I could not come up with a reason to grab a portable MP3 player.
For reasons still unknown to my conscious mind, I actually gave in to the hype and purchased an iPod 20GB, gen 4. Ever since then (it has been nearly 4 months now), I find that I can't live without the damned thing. Now, I spend much more time away from the computer, and even make more frequent long-distance driving trips (with a hookup to my car stereo, of course).
So, if you are at all like me, you probably won't really "get it" until you get it. I am glad I made the jump. Your mileage may vary.
*confidently returns to walking off a cliff with the rest of the lemmings*
I am feeling generous to the grammar whores. In that spirit, I would suggest that you prepend an ellipsis and change "Which" to "which" in my previous comment, and perhaps you will understand better.
Yes, even I asked myself "Where can I find this great graphics application named Which?"
An excerpt from Apple Computer, Inc.: Software License Agreement for Mac OS X: Single Use License page 1:
2. Permitted License Uses and Restrictions A. This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-labeled computer at a time.
Now, one may look at that to mean you can take an Apple sticker and slap it on your Linux box and that gives you the rights. However, I am afraid that isn't quite the case:)
I totally stand behind you, though. I also spent the money on a copy of OS X specifically for the purpose of running it under PearPC. This is the one part of the License I willingly violate.
Though it is a BSD, there is still a need for developers to jump on board and port over drivers. With the existance of Darwin/x86, perhaps this will happen naturally. However, it just isn't happening now.
Alright, so the money is indeed coming more from portables than the desktops. And actually, the just announced addition of a less expensive uniprocessor G5 does show in a tangable way that desktop sales are not as spectacular as Apple would like.
While Apple uses mostly PC hardware, they only use -certain- PC hardware in stock machines, and they know exactly what machines the OS is going on. A large amount of additional hardware support would need to be added to the mix, the most difficult prospect being motherboards. Macintoshes do not have the wide variety of motherboards that PCs do.
And yes, the drivers would need to be rewritten for x86 (or at least rebuilt for that architecture) should Mac OS X make the move. Existing Windows drivers and PPC Mac OS X drivers won't work.
Again, the problem with making Mac OS X work on an open architecture is compatibility. And even then, Apple does not make the majority of its money on the software and would not make much in the licensing the architecture to other companies that may make cheaper systems. The money for Apple is in the hardware.
I am not quite sure about the sales figures for each piece of hardware, however I very much doubt that the Apple desktops aren't selling. In my view, if Apple weren't selling their desktop systems, then they wouldn't be selling expensive models. Apple desktop systems are, as far as I can tell, in high demand by graphics and video production companies, university programs, and enthusiasts. There is also the fact that previous Apple owners tend to be quite loyal and stick with Apple systems rather than switch over to PC or some other system. When the time comes, they upgrade their desktops rather than a less powerful portable since it will last longer.
iPods are certainly a cash cow for Apple, and the addition of Windows compatibility was certainly a smart move there. People are not going to switch to a new $2500.00 system to use an MP3 player, but WILL spend money on the best MP3 player available if they can use it on their existing systems. As for laptops, I don't really know if Apple is selling more of these than desktops. I figure a good portion of the laptop owners were already Mac owners anyway, so I do not see this as a trend or a reason to make an open architecture available for clone desktops.
This issue has been thrown around countless times on/.
It seems that the consensus is that Apple actually loses a lot in the porting of their operating system to x86. For one, hardware support. The reason why MacOS X is as stable and runs as well as it does is because it is run on hardware specifically designed to use the software, and vice versa. If OS X were to move to x86, Apple would have to take into consideration the prospect of having it be run on literally millions of different combinations of hardware.
You may argue that Microsoft did a good job of this with Windows. However this is more of an accomplishment for the hardware vendors rather than Microsoft, as they are the ones that wrote the drivers. If Apple were to ship OS X for x86, then the hardware vendors, if they wanted to support the consumers using the system, would need to write new drivers. If you were to ask me, I would guess that the majority of the hardware vendors wouldn't even bother.
There may be a lot of interest from your standpoint in seeing Mac OS X being ported to the PC, however the general consensus is that Apple would be losing too much for them to see it as being worth it.
Because it has bearing in this article, I am an iPod and iTMS user.
1) Unauthorized: 9% - Comprised of things that you can't buy in America. 2) Online purchase: 30% - All purchased from iTMS 3) Shareable: 0% 4) My CD rips: 60% 5) Friend's CD rips: 1% - A single CD
For the record: The second that iTMS or any other online music service makes something I have obtained in an unauthorized fashion available legally (which happened twice so far), I purchase it.
Their full product is a beautiful application. I especially love to work out the endless battery of life and death problems included whenever I need a good poke in the brain.
Sure, one could always go to http://www.goproblems.org/, but the problems included in Many Faces have less mistakes.
I am just going by the fact that people don't seem to read past the headlines. I have been in several different situations, with several different groups of people, on several different topics, where a posted notice, submitted message, or news clipping was never considered past the first few words.
Very much true. But you know, a lot of people will make the connection, however invalid, anyway. People have a tendancy not to read... or at least not to finish reading.
I can almost see the local news now, with a story on "local reaction to this shocking news." A 15 year old girl will be interviewed, saying "My mom said I am not allowed to play DDR anymore." A mother will be interviewed, saying "When I saw that news I had my children tested for heart problems. I never knew DDR could be this damaging!"...it will happen. Mark my words.
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I am also having no problems. I personally have four systems running Leopard and I have absolutely no complaints. (One 'Aluminum' C2D iMac, one 'White Plastic' C2D iMac, an original MacBook Pro with C1D, and a Mac Mini with G4). All of my systems have been happily and speedily going along. No crashes, no headaches.
I use a wide variety of applications on these systems ranging from off-the-shelf games to command line utilities installed through MacPorts. Therefore, and expectedly, there were a small handful of applications I had which did not work immediately after Leopard's release. However, they have all been updated in the meantime and are now working great. In my case, none of these apps were remarkably critical; all of my most important applications worked just fine throughout. As a side note, gaming on my Macs seems to have received a noticeable boost in performance since moving to 10.5, which is really great.
So, make that two. Or, well, five.
And yet another word from myself: Steam seems to be back up and running. Give it a try.
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But what if I need to search for ch3aP Can.adi n v31g.r a?
No problem! Just use the search function of your favorite e-mail application!
Go on and mark my comment off-topic, Mods :D
*spoons out some ice cream for the troll*
Speaking from personal experience, I myself was in much the same boat as you. Since I rarely spent more than a half-hour or so away from some computing device which contained my entire music collection, I could not come up with a reason to grab a portable MP3 player.
For reasons still unknown to my conscious mind, I actually gave in to the hype and purchased an iPod 20GB, gen 4. Ever since then (it has been nearly 4 months now), I find that I can't live without the damned thing. Now, I spend much more time away from the computer, and even make more frequent long-distance driving trips (with a hookup to my car stereo, of course).
So, if you are at all like me, you probably won't really "get it" until you get it. I am glad I made the jump. Your mileage may vary.
*confidently returns to walking off a cliff with the rest of the lemmings*
I am feeling generous to the grammar whores. In that spirit, I would suggest that you prepend an ellipsis and change "Which" to "which" in my previous comment, and perhaps you will understand better.
Yes, even I asked myself "Where can I find this great graphics application named Which?"
Which is an AWESOME graphics app. I use it daily.
Don't forget AMD's campaign to get rid of the popular notion that clock speed means everything just before the Athlon XP came out.
Now, one may look at that to mean you can take an Apple sticker and slap it on your Linux box and that gives you the rights. However, I am afraid that isn't quite the case
I totally stand behind you, though. I also spent the money on a copy of OS X specifically for the purpose of running it under PearPC. This is the one part of the License I willingly violate.
Though it is a BSD, there is still a need for developers to jump on board and port over drivers. With the existance of Darwin/x86, perhaps this will happen naturally. However, it just isn't happening now.
Alright, so the money is indeed coming more from portables than the desktops. And actually, the just announced addition of a less expensive uniprocessor G5 does show in a tangable way that desktop sales are not as spectacular as Apple would like. While Apple uses mostly PC hardware, they only use -certain- PC hardware in stock machines, and they know exactly what machines the OS is going on. A large amount of additional hardware support would need to be added to the mix, the most difficult prospect being motherboards. Macintoshes do not have the wide variety of motherboards that PCs do. And yes, the drivers would need to be rewritten for x86 (or at least rebuilt for that architecture) should Mac OS X make the move. Existing Windows drivers and PPC Mac OS X drivers won't work.
Again, the problem with making Mac OS X work on an open architecture is compatibility. And even then, Apple does not make the majority of its money on the software and would not make much in the licensing the architecture to other companies that may make cheaper systems. The money for Apple is in the hardware.
I am not quite sure about the sales figures for each piece of hardware, however I very much doubt that the Apple desktops aren't selling. In my view, if Apple weren't selling their desktop systems, then they wouldn't be selling expensive models. Apple desktop systems are, as far as I can tell, in high demand by graphics and video production companies, university programs, and enthusiasts. There is also the fact that previous Apple owners tend to be quite loyal and stick with Apple systems rather than switch over to PC or some other system. When the time comes, they upgrade their desktops rather than a less powerful portable since it will last longer.
iPods are certainly a cash cow for Apple, and the addition of Windows compatibility was certainly a smart move there. People are not going to switch to a new $2500.00 system to use an MP3 player, but WILL spend money on the best MP3 player available if they can use it on their existing systems. As for laptops, I don't really know if Apple is selling more of these than desktops. I figure a good portion of the laptop owners were already Mac owners anyway, so I do not see this as a trend or a reason to make an open architecture available for clone desktops.
This issue has been thrown around countless times on /.
It seems that the consensus is that Apple actually loses a lot in the porting of their operating system to x86. For one, hardware support. The reason why MacOS X is as stable and runs as well as it does is because it is run on hardware specifically designed to use the software, and vice versa. If OS X were to move to x86, Apple would have to take into consideration the prospect of having it be run on literally millions of different combinations of hardware.
You may argue that Microsoft did a good job of this with Windows. However this is more of an accomplishment for the hardware vendors rather than Microsoft, as they are the ones that wrote the drivers. If Apple were to ship OS X for x86, then the hardware vendors, if they wanted to support the consumers using the system, would need to write new drivers. If you were to ask me, I would guess that the majority of the hardware vendors wouldn't even bother.
There may be a lot of interest from your standpoint in seeing Mac OS X being ported to the PC, however the general consensus is that Apple would be losing too much for them to see it as being worth it.
Because it has bearing in this article, I am an iPod and iTMS user.
1) Unauthorized: 9% - Comprised of things that you can't buy in America.
2) Online purchase: 30% - All purchased from iTMS
3) Shareable: 0%
4) My CD rips: 60%
5) Friend's CD rips: 1% - A single CD
For the record: The second that iTMS or any other online music service makes something I have obtained in an unauthorized fashion available legally (which happened twice so far), I purchase it.
Ack, that would be http://www.goproblems.com/, not .org!
Their full product is a beautiful application. I especially love to work out the endless battery of life and death problems included whenever I need a good poke in the brain.
Sure, one could always go to http://www.goproblems.org/, but the problems included in Many Faces have less mistakes.
I am just going by the fact that people don't seem to read past the headlines. I have been in several different situations, with several different groups of people, on several different topics, where a posted notice, submitted message, or news clipping was never considered past the first few words.
Very much true. But you know, a lot of people will make the connection, however invalid, anyway. People have a tendancy not to read... or at least not to finish reading. I can almost see the local news now, with a story on "local reaction to this shocking news." A 15 year old girl will be interviewed, saying "My mom said I am not allowed to play DDR anymore." A mother will be interviewed, saying "When I saw that news I had my children tested for heart problems. I never knew DDR could be this damaging!" ...it will happen. Mark my words.