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I just want Stacks to work like they did in the Leopard developer preview (tried finding a video, but can't). They seem pointless how they are implemented now.
 
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.

Strange, I have had not one single problem with Safari in Snow Leopard on any of my 3 machines.
 
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. :rolleyes:

Really? Does your PowerMac not work anymore under 10.5? Did not installing Snow Leopard somehow disable / break your computer. Can it not do all the things it did before? What is the issue here? How are you forced to buy new hardware? If SL gives no new features then you have no real need to upgrade, you can use Leopard. Your 'expensive' Mac will still continue to deliver the excellent experience to you that is has done so far. It is not diminished in anyway!

Leopard will be supported for YEARS, so shut up moaning.
 
Nice. It'll be interesting to see if they can regain the lead in consumer operating system functionality.
 
Apparently the build IDs are based on Darwin/NEXTSTEP version numbers.

The 10.0 to 10.6 stuff is just noise. The real version numbers are 10.0 (Snow Leopard), 9.0 (Leopard) etc..

The kernel is currently 10.2.When SL was released the kernel was 10.0

11A47 is the new OS based on the Darwin kernel 11.0
 
Apple is working on the next version of OSX ... slow news day? Guess it keeps the add traffic up :rolleyes:
 
Because, as he said, the "X" stands for "10" as in "successor of [Mac OS] 9".

It's the name "Mac OS X", pronounced "mac os ten". The "X" is not a version number.

Speaking of the OS9 transition to OSX is anyone really anxious to see what Apple is going to have in store after OSX is over? With new OS releases approximately every two years from Apple i'm assuming it's going to be in the time frame of 2015 (that's if the world doesn't end in 2012:D). I'm probably thinking way too far ahead right now but I really can't imagine what kind of leap Apple will make from OSX to OS11 (or whatever they may call it).
 
Speaking of the OS9 transition to OSX is anyone really anxious to see what Apple is going to have in store after OSX is over? With new OS releases approximately every two years from Apple i'm assuming it's going to be in the time frame of 2015 (that's if the world doesn't end in 2012:D). I'm probably thinking way too far ahead right now but I really can't imagine what kind of leap Apple will make from OSX to OS11 (or whatever they may call it).

It's too far out to speculate. Hell, we don't even know what kind of features 10.7 or 10.8 will hold.
 
It's too far out to speculate. Hell, we don't even know what kind of features 10.7 or 10.8 will hold.

Yeah, I know. Just a thought.

As for 10.7 and 10.8 i'm going to take a guess that Apple will make 10.7 what Leopard was then make 10.8 what Snow Leopard was and skip out 10.9 altogether. Although they may want to keep the roman numeral 10 for as long as possible.
 
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.
Important? Disk space hasn't been a significant constraint in years, and is getting less so all the time.
 
I'm probably thinking way too far ahead right now but I really can't imagine what kind of leap Apple will make from OSX to OS11 (or whatever they may call it).
Drop the microkernel. It's a performance nightmare.
 
It better not be called Lynx.

The jokes here in the UK would be awful given that Lynx is synonomous with the cheap deodorant bought by teenagers.
 
forget the "ten" already, it is "OS X". To repeat myself, "ex", not "ten". Roman numeral "X" indeed does mean "10", but in Apple's case the "X" means "successor to classic Macintosh OS that ended with 9". Successor being very much alive in its 6th incarnation (not counting dot-zero "Cheetah" which was very much extension to public beta "Kodiak" and the two were not yet end-user ready).

No, it's pronounced OS "Ten" because the X is a Roman numeral of ten.

Steve, Phil, Tim, Bernard, none of them call it OS "Ex", it is OS "TEN".
 
We already see traces of the "Marble" UI present in OS X.6. Take a look at the dock and its "HUD" contextual menu system, this look will be spreading into the entire OS as QT and other various :apple: apps already sport this "pro" look plus the shiny.

Pro = Matte and subdued

Prosumer/Consumer = Glossy

Take a look at all they hardware with a polished black :apple: and glass screen and then take a look at the pro hardware with has a matte option on it.

If I am lucky they might offer an option for Matte or Glossy look for Marble. :)
 
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