Not to mention those icons from the 90's. Granted the 90's were a stellar time, the fact that they neglect to clean up after sooo long just goes to show, they just DON'T CARE!
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Apple Already Working on Mac OS X 10.7 Development?
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Not to mention those icons from the 90's. Granted the 90's were a stellar time, the fact that they neglect to clean up after sooo long just goes to show, they just DON'T CARE!
I do want my $29 back to be honest.
10.6.2 is stable to use but the changes they've made to Finder are very aggravating.
I'm completely boggled about the Spotlight issue I'm having as well.
A long time.
Probably not. OS X is a well-known brand, no need or reason to change it. It would be like Microsoft dumping the "Windows" name in favor of "Doors" just because.
Why? It's just another version number.
--Eric
Changes to the boot process? Hmmmmm. It seems kind of obvious to me why they would want to change how a Mac boots in the future so as to keep anyone from hacking reasonable priced hardware to run OSX. Don't be surprised if your brand new Macbook won't work with 10.7 in favor of getting rid of the Hackintoshes. They killed my PowerMac with 10.6 for no other reason than to force more hardware sales sooner, so it certainly wouldn't surprise me at this point. Dont' worry, though. I mean you'll have had your new Mac for 2 years by then and that's more than enough use to justify the prices Apple charges. It's time to upgrade! Besides, Snow Leopard will still be usable on your Mac just like OS9 still works on some older Macs! I'm sure software developers won't immediately abandon making updates for that version of the operating system. They'll at least continue for a few months, anyway. It'll be nothing to get upset about.
Safari for me has been a crash fest nightmare. In Leopard, complete stabilization (even Safari 4 Beta was much more stable).
I have benefited from the lean OS and overall refinements, but my Safari experience has been ruined since day one (hell even Flash plug-ins crash or freeze Safari).
Lion... followed by Mountain Lion... or maybe Cougar... Personally I'm for Ocelot though... lol...
Anyone that didn't realize 10.7 was in development LONG before 10.6 was even in the wild is foolish. I'm sure 10.8 is already in development.
I do however wonder if they'll actually keep going that way or just jump to 11 soon... I hope we go to 10.11 because you always want to go one more then the other blokes...
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Anyone that didn't realize 10.7 was in development LONG before 10.6 was even in the wild is foolish. I'm sure 10.8 is already in development.
I do however wonder if they'll actually keep going that way or just jump to 11 soon... I hope we go to 10.11 because you always want to go one more then the other blokes...
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
And so it begins again. Leopard was supposed to have Illuminous, Snow Leopard was supposed to have Marble...and 10.7 will have some new rumor that turns out to be false.
Yeah Apple is going to have to pry Leopard from my cold dead hands.
With a half assed preview of it in iLife of course.
Actually given that SL was refinement to 10.5, I don't think we will see much for SL beyond 10.6.5.... After .3 and .4 most of the remaining bugs will be ironed out... Beyond security patches and tacking on stuff that is developed between now and 10.7. 10.7 will be a real show.
[rant] Cocoa OpenCL killer Final Cut Studio 4 please [/rant]
[rant] Cocoa OpenCL killer Final Cut Studio 4 please [/rant]
If they came out with Microsoft Doors, I would buy it in a heatbeat, just because they had the balls to call it that.
They could call it "Microsoft Doors, Because your ass got to fat for the window"
I'm surprised MR didn't catch the REAL news out of the launchd rdar problems.
Along with 11A47 was this :
<rdar://problem/7399539> X2: Dock does not register apps that quit: error -600
Along with 11A47 was this :
<rdar://problem/7399539> X2: Dock does not register apps that quit: error -600
I'm surprised MR didn't catch the REAL news out of the launchd rdar problems.
Along with 11A47 was this :
<rdar://problem/7399539> X2: Dock does not register apps that quit: error -600
WTF is X2?
Tablet OS ?
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More likely an internal build of a different OS..Maybe embedded.
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Since you've always got to innovate and 
always needs to be light years ahead of M$ it's reasonable to expect major innovations that are actually useful (like spaces, bootcamp, time machine... you get the idea).
Am I the only one with the feeling it's all been about refinements this year at ?
iPhone 3GS, iPod nano with video camera, iPod shuffle with not so practical voice functions, slightly better MacBook Pro, slightly better white MacBook, slightly better Leopard... despite size differences slightly better iMac.
Slightly better keyboard.
What happened to those times that Apple jumped from the iMac G3 to the amazing looking G4?
When they could easily claim they had the fastest personal computer?
always needs to be light years ahead of M$ it's reasonable to expect major innovations that are actually useful (like spaces, bootcamp, time machine... you get the idea). Am I the only one with the feeling it's all been about refinements this year at
?iPhone 3GS, iPod nano with video camera, iPod shuffle with not so practical voice functions, slightly better MacBook Pro, slightly better white MacBook, slightly better Leopard... despite size differences slightly better iMac.
Slightly better keyboard.
What happened to those times that Apple jumped from the iMac G3 to the amazing looking G4?
When they could easily claim they had the fastest personal computer?
Yeah Apple is going to have to pry Leopard from my cold dead hands.
With a half assed preview of it in iLife of course.
1. I'll still use Snow Leo knowing that by 10.6.5 things will be ironed out (hopefully)
2. The half assed previews are all over iLife, iWork, iTunes and QuickTime.
I say preview of 10.7 Lynx/Cougar at WWDC 10 with a ship date of Spring 11.
And please dont name it Clouded Leopard."
why not? Clouded Leopards are cool!
"Few people have seen a clouded leopard, either in its wild habitat in Southeast Asia or in a zoo. Officially recorded as a species in 1821, the clouded leopard remains just as mysterious today as it was nearly 200 years ago. Most of what we know about these cats comes from observing them in zoos. Named for its cloud-like spots, recent genetic studies have shown that clouded leopards are a separate species of cat and not just a type of leopard. Cloudeds are most closely related to snow leopards and are now in the same taxonomic subfamily as tigers, lions, jaguars, and true leopard species. "
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-clouded_leopard.html
I have the same issue. Safari 4 Beta on Leopard hummed along smoothly and stayed that way the entire time I had it.
On Snow Leopard, I get beach balls, freezes, crashes, slow downs, graphical aberrations... it plain old just sucks.
The most logical move would be for 10.7 to run only on Macs with 64-bit Intel processors i.e. Core 2 Duo and later. Expect support for Core Duo and Core Solo Macs to be dropped with 10.7. This would allow Apple to ship skinny 64-bit binaries of all the user apps rather than fat binaries containing both 32-bit and 64-bit executables. The result for the user would be that 10.7 would take less disk space than 10.6.
Also expect 10.7 to include both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels but, unlike 10.6 (with the exception of Xserve), to boot 64-bit kernels by default on all machines with 64-bit EFI.
The logical move for 10.8 would be to drop support for Macs with 32-bit EFI. That would permit Apple to drop the 32-bit kernels and complete the gradual transition to 64-bit MacOS X.
The other (probably more important) reasons for dropping PPC support from 10.6 were:
- fat binaries for all the user applications contain two rather than four executables, resulting in 10.6 taking less disk space than 10.5.
- no need to compile and test PPC versions. This speeds up the build times, allowing more time for development during the development cycle and it allows Apple to reassign QA engineers from PPC to Intel.
Rumor has it, they actually are considering a change of brand name, as 'Windows' has been tarnished so heavily, for so long.
Good one!
Or perhaps, Portal - hence the mandatory security measures 24/7.