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Mac OS XI
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ClarkeB said:
Yeah, actually, one of my PeeCee's is running the Longhorn Alpha.
It's...well, let's just say you can tell it's an Alpha. The sidebar is whacked out and very difficult to use- I ended up disabling it. It also blocks a lot of your screen.
IE7's new GUI is so horribly unintuitive it's not even funny. The back button is GIGANTIC in comparison to everything else, and the forward button is invisibly small. There's a HUGE amount of wasted space and gigantic text for the page's title. Then comes the File-Edit-View stuff, and below that TINY stop-refresh-home-favorites buttons.
And of course, MSN.com is the default homepage.
And all Windows XP compatible spyware works, as proven by the fact that a relative managed to install the Yahoo Toolbar.
But the 3d effects don't work unless you have a fairly powerful card- my 64 MB Geforce 2 MX 400 doesn't work at all, I can't even play Jedi Academy (which ran perfectly in XP).
It's a pain to use, and terribly slow on the 900 MHz machine I installed it on.
Not to mention that Explorer.exe has a memory leak that literally balloons until Explorer.exe is using 150 MB (compared to 29 MB for XP at the moment).
wrldwzrd89 said:
Mac OSX 11 Reccomendations:
3 Petabytes Hard Drive Space Capacity
200 USB 3.1 Ports
2 FireWire ports
64 GB RAM
VIRTUAL REALITY HELMET!!! (see my above post)
Apple 1 Button mouse (still using 1 button
)20 GHz processor
This is, assuming that this comes out in 2010.
GFLPraxis said:
1) Its alpha, and by your screenshot, you are running a VERY early Alpha.
2) Thats IE 6, even though it may say IE7. Longhorn's IE7 will remove the extra stuff you were talking about (double favorites, awkward FILE, EDIT, etc...)
3) You can move the taskbar.
Tiger might be the last OS X (which is said, "Ten" not "X"). No such thing as OS X 11, that would be OS Ten Eleven. Nope.
If Tiger's on the market for at least three years, or til 2007, then Apple won't be far behind Lognhorn with OS "11" or whatever it'll be called.
I say we'll have an entirely new OS by 2010. With maybe a 10.5 "Sabertooth" out in early 2008 (or late 2007) to bridge the gap until 2010.
If Tiger's on the market for at least three years, or til 2007, then Apple won't be far behind Lognhorn with OS "11" or whatever it'll be called.
I say we'll have an entirely new OS by 2010. With maybe a 10.5 "Sabertooth" out in early 2008 (or late 2007) to bridge the gap until 2010.
I love how people hang on to EVERY word that Steve says and how they look for some hidden meaning... guys.. he's a person. If he indicated anything about it being a long time, fine, but like... every phrase spurs a huge like... thing. What is that word... um.... oh who knows. I'm tired.
I do remember that an Apple rep said, last year, that Tiger will be the last of the yearly OS updates that have been coming (10.1, 10.2, 10.3, etc).
I think this could be true seeing how many new features they are putting into Tiger.
Apple is slowin' 'er down a bit.
Note: They didn't say they it would be the last one, just you won't see one every year.
I think this could be true seeing how many new features they are putting into Tiger.
Apple is slowin' 'er down a bit.
Note: They didn't say they it would be the last one, just you won't see one every year.
I do not think OS XI looks good, but I do like OS Xi. I think that the the little "i" would go well.
You know, it seems that a lot of people have missed the significance of X11. No, it's not 21 or 12. It's more playing into the Unix idea while allowing the naming scheme to move forward. X is the name of the OS (look at all of the ad graphics for the Mac OS, nothing but X's). As others have pointed out X ties the OS to NeXT and Unix, which isn't something that I'd think Apple would want to give up. Further, by stepping the next major version to be "X11", "X-11", or "X 11", ties it to the primary Unix windowing system X Windows X11.
Now, all of that said, I have no idea where Apple will go NeXT.
Now, all of that said, I have no idea where Apple will go NeXT.
Merging Linux and Mac OS X is alrady done. You can compile most Linux applications to run under OS X running the X11 Window System.dxp4acu said:Maybe OS X11 will become a Linux for the masses. Merging Linux and OS X will help even more people switch over, and thus cause MS to lose more of a foothold.
So tell me exactly what needs merging?
dotdotdot said:
Actually it's build 4074. Hasn't been anything newer given to the testers yet outside of MS HQ that I know of.
And it IS IE 7. It has 24-bit PNG support finally, for one thing.
And I know, I removed the "dock" on the right side shortly after taking tha tshot.
Snowy_River said:You know, it seems that a lot of people have missed the significance of X11. No, it's not 21 or 12. It's more playing into the Unix idea while allowing the naming scheme to move forward. X is the name of the OS (look at all of the ad graphics for the Mac OS, nothing but X's). As others have pointed out X ties the OS to NeXT and Unix, which isn't something that I'd think Apple would want to give up. Further, by stepping the next major version to be "X11", "X-11", or "X 11", ties it to the primary Unix windowing system X Windows X11.
Now, all of that said, I have no idea where Apple will go NeXT.
Can you say lawsuit?
What are peoples latest estimates for release of longhorn, and do you think it will be designed to compete with tiger, or a later version of Mac OS?
...also I haven't posted for a while, but whats with all the pirate names?
...also I haven't posted for a while, but whats with all the pirate names?
