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OS X 10.5.8 Development Wrapping Up?
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I haven't been following the Snow Leopard news closely, what exactly are the speed ups? And has anyone posted numbers on time increase/decrease? I realize it hasn't been finalized yet, but at $29, I'm not expecting the speed increases that I saw from 10.1.5 to 10.2 to 10.3 to 10.4 (couldn't noticeably appreciate speed increases in 10.5).
They've added quite a bit about the speedups to apple.com over the last few months. It all starts here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
No they don't....any other version of UNIX (of which OS X is a member) usually has an Explorer type browser included in the window manager...so I don't know why Apple doesn't take a cue from other UNIX versions and get a "real" file browser.
Easy now ... it could have been a pedantess.
Does my pointing this out make me a pedant also?
We updated to 10.7 on 1 partition and noted that one game, a flight sim, had weird gpu elements. Anyone hear of this and why this would be?
Thanks
Check the threads I linked earlier. I'm not using any external input devices, displays, or Bluetooth. In fact I've never used Bluetooth on my MacBook. It has been off since day one.
Uh... Apple opened their stores in a recession.
If you are willing to take a short-term loss for long-term gain, jumping into retail stores during a recession is usually the best time to do it. Property and leases are cheaper, and easier to keep them cheap as the economy recovers. Those lower costs add up down the road.
Agreed - it's a much easier transition for Windows users than plain Finder.
I use both platforms each day and I'd love to have an OSX version of Total Commander from Ghisler - it's terrific, but I thinks it's a Delphi app with no easy path to the Mac.
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MacRumors has received word that Apple seeded OS X Leopard 10.5.8 Build 9L30 to developers last night, including only a single documented change related to an issue with external monitors and waking from sleep mode. There are reportedly no listed outstanding issues in the latest build.
Apple's previous seed of 10.5.8 (Build 9L29) was pushed to developers just five days earlier, and the single increment in build number between the two releases suggests that Apple may be very close to completing work on what many expect to be the final update to Leopard before the release of OS X Snow Leopard in September.
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard will be available to Leopard users for only $29 and will primarily incorporate "under the hood" changes designed to improve performance and stability.
Article Link: OS X 10.5.8 Development Wrapping Up?
Hopefully the external monitor fix they mention is the fact that osx 10.5.7 cannot currently display 1920x1200 on an external monitor connected through hdmi =\
Good question; I know in the case of the uptodate programme from 10.4 -> 10.5, I had to create a image from the CD, delete the detection script then re-burn it so that I could do a clean install in the future.
I hope that Apple doesn't do something stupid like that because god knows I don't want to have to do an install of Leopard just so I can re-install Snow Leopard - or forcing users to upgrade when they want to do a clean install.
Don't worry, Microsoft is building a bunch of retail stores so they can sit you down and explain it to you.
Putting it that way - Microsoft sounds like some sort of loan shark where all the details aren't known until you've signed on the dotted line
The first thing you'll notice is a much snappier Finder; no hangs or hold ups when a network mount disappears, file copying I have found is a lot quicker, Quicktime compression is alot faster than under Leopard, over all the snappiness I have found to be superior on Snow Leopard than Leopard; that's not to say that there were any problems with Leopard.
The problem with the Microsoft retail chain is that it fails to address what is wrong with Microsoft - their products suck; all the slick marketing in the world isn't going to change that fact.
Apple realised Mac OS 'Classic' sucked, and did something about it, they realised that their computers were hugely overpriced, and they did something about it. Apple has had a history of realising what products suck and did something about it - Microsoft refuses to be self critical so here we are, Windows 7, and still riddled from top to bottom with crud.
I'd argue that things like Vista/7 are released because MSFT is self-critical... the catch is that there is a bunch of legacy that they are unwilling to ditch due to pressure from partners and businesses. 7 takes steps in the right direction to let them fix that in future releases.
Apple is still trying to make inroads into business, and as such are in a position where there isn't a bunch of legacy that will cost customers 'millions of dollars' to update.
Yes I have, I have used the public RC along with the leaked builds. Same flawed UI, same crud still hanging around, same problems, same bugginess.
Why do you automatically assume that anyone who is critical of Windows is someone raving zealot who has never used Windows before?
I've outlined my reasons several times - its not my responsibility to regurgitate the same things over and over again.