Apple Posts Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Guided Tour

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Turn Off Your Animation In The Dock Preferences

Ya I get that, but still it looked very fast.
Photoshop in 1 bounce? Mine is 9. Thats pretty sweet man. I do only have 16gigs free on my HD. But what else could be the reason for mine taking so long compared to yours? What machine you running?

1. If you turn OFF the animation in the Dock preferences

UNcheck "animate opening applications"

- that stupid bounce you're bragging about - everything will launch faster. That stupid bounce animation slows down the launch time.
2. Maximize your RAM.
3. They are launching after launching and quitting once first. Second launch is radically faster.

 

[cohibadad]

Regarding iChat remote control of another's computer:Would you please explain what you mean by that?

Yes. As others have suggested I was referring to helping parents use their computer. It is so difficult explaining over a phone without seeing what they see.

Each new version of OS X is faster than the previous version. So I don't know why you wouldn't think it is that fast. Plus you know they're likely using a 2.8GHz iMac with 4GB of RAM not 3.

I had guests over to the house and was showing them the Leopard guided tour on this machine running 9A559. As I demonstrated Spaces with Expose, etc. all they could say was "It's soooooooo fast!" Now, it's not perfect IMO. There are some animation hiccups with dock, Expose, TM that I hope are smoothed out in the GM. I think it is a software issue because this is a C2D iMac with 2Gb RAM and it runs equally as well on my Dual 1 Ghz G4 with 1 Gb RAM. That kind of performance from a 2002 computer? I'm impressed.

 

[phillipjfry]

no matter what, the conclusion must be that we have no lives, since we're sitting here, posting such minor stupid observations

Thank you.

 

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DVD Studio Pro 4 Already Supports HD-DVD

Do you think there is any chance that apple will through in HD DVD support as an added bonus?

DVD Studio Pro 4 already supports HD-DVD.

 

[odedia]

Actually, Quicklook only lets you look at documents on screen. You can't print them, edit them or anything. Plus, I'm not sure how many kinds of files Quicklook actually works for, so you still may need a 3rd party app to be able to read a document.

Quicklook supports third party plugins, so developers can add their own formats to Quicklook.

 

[dotcomlarry]

Everything seemed very quick in the tour video... anyone know how fast Leopard actually is on say a Macbook Pro? Faster/slower than Tiger?

Another plausible explanation (at least for the quick switching and launching) is that they cut out 'wait time' during application launches while editing the video. Dead space takes time, meaning a longer video, meaning more bits, meaning a larger file size, and finally meaning more bandwidth costs. Shave a couple seconds here and there, and you've probably saved a few bucks.

 

[chelsel]

Can We Please Get A New Front Page Article??

 

[machatch]

Is this guy an ex airline steward? Anyone know? I was half expecting him to say "Inflate your life vest by pulling on this cord" at any moment, in that condescending/simpleton type voice that such people use.

yeahh.he sounded boring..like he was sellin vacumcleaners ore somethin..

 

[72930]

yeahh.he sounded boring..like he was sellin vacumcleaners ore somethin..

What did you want him to sound like? Giddy with excitement?

 

[chelsel]

Each new version of OS X is faster than the previous version.

Do you have any proof of this? Have benchmarks been run on identical hardware with clean installs of each operating system generation? I highly doubt that upgrading the OS improves performance of installed applications. Likely you just have less junk on a new system and it feels faster If you have real benchmarks please provide a link, otherwise, lets not speculate.

 

[mox123]

is this guy's real name "Johnnie Appleseed"? he's hot...

 

[iBunny]

Wow. Alot of you guys are complaing about Leopards look? The Dock etc?

In the last minute, when they went back to Tiger I let out a big "Ick"... Tiger looks so plain and Bleh compared to Leopard! I never noticed it before, but after watching that 20 minutes of Leopard, the look rocks!!!!!

 

[iBunny]

Do you have any proof of this? Have benchmarks been run on identical hardware with clean installs of each operating system generation? I highly doubt that upgrading the OS improves performance of installed applications. Likely you just have less junk on a new system and it feels faster If you have real benchmarks please provide a link, otherwise, lets not speculate.

While I dont know if "Each" new version of OSX is faster than the one before it, I do know Leopard will be faster than Tiger on my machine. Tiger was designed when Intel did not exist in the Mac World. And just because it was recoded to x86, dosent mean it was in any way optimized to run on an Intel CPU; Leopard however, has been. It will get the most out of my Intel CPU, and my Multiple Cores. Also being full 64-Bit, It will allow it self, as well as all my programs to utilize all my memory, since my memory footprint is over 4GB.

Im excited - and im sure Leopard will be significantly faster than Tiger.

 

[Mac OS X Ocelot]

Wow. Alot of you guys are complaing about Leopards look? The Dock etc?

In the last minute, when they went back to Tiger I let out a big "Ick"... Tiger looks so plain and Bleh compared to Leopard! I never noticed it before, but after watching that 20 minutes of Leopard, the look rocks!!!!!

That happened to me too. After a whole video of staring at Leopard's desktop and then suddenly they switch to Tiger I was like "Oh my god, what is that? That's hideous! Look away!" Then I realized I have Tiger on my computer and got depressed. Oh well. 6 more days.

 

[rydewnd2]

I thought that and it looks very much so, however it is the real screen to some degree. For example, when he's using iChat he looks to the camera and you can see the side of his head in the window on the screen and as he turns back to the computer you can see his head move on the screen.

You can pull this off by using compositing software and multiplying the screen and the superimposed image.

 

[HLdan]

Each new version of OS X is faster than the previous version. So I don't know why you wouldn't think it is that fast. Plus you know they're likely using a 2.8GHz iMac with 4GB of RAM not 3.

It looked more like a 20" iMac, not the 24. BTW did anyone notice that his iMac is not connected to the web via Airport or an ethernet from the back yet he was surfing web pages? Something is fake about that video, not that it really matters at this point.

 

[Luap]

BTW did anyone notice that his iMac is not connected to the web via Airport or an ethernet from the back yet he was surfing web pages? Something is fake about that video, not that it really matters at this point.

Largely discussed already. Of course its staged...

 

[Decrepit]

That happened to me too. After a whole video of staring at Leopard's desktop and then suddenly they switch to Tiger I was like "Oh my god, what is that? That's hideous! Look away!" Then I realized I have Tiger on my computer and got depressed. Oh well. 6 more days.

Yeah, until you have to sit in front of an XP or Vista system, and then Tiger looks awesome again.

 

[irahodges]

That happened to me too. After a whole video of staring at Leopard's desktop and then suddenly they switch to Tiger I was like "Oh my god, what is that? That's hideous! Look away!" Then I realized I have Tiger on my computer and got depressed. Oh well. 6 more days.

I don't know how I am going to get through the next 6 days without the goodness of leopard.

 

[72930]

Yeah, until you have to sit in front of an XP or Vista system, and then Tiger looks awesome again.

I have my menubar and dock on autohide, and use UNO for the unified UI...during general web-browsing and document writing (~80% of my Mac usage), Leopard will look exactly the same...

 

[HLdan]

I don't know how I am going to get through the next 6 days without the goodness of leopard.

LOL, you are not alone my friend!

 

[stompy]

What did you want him to sound like? Giddy with excitement?

Just like this.

 

[iMartini]

I'm a soon-to-be switcher, and it's funny how everybody (myself included) is so giddy and excited about Leopard. When Microsoft announces a new version of Windows, the reactions among PC people are usually those of loathing and dread, probably because they just spent 3+ years getting the current version of Windows to operate properly. I don't recall people planning to line up outside of Best Buy to purchase Vista the minute it's released.

 

[72930]

Just like this.

I laugh every time I see that

 

[Tim117]

I laugh every time I see that

I still think it's amazing that they could have a clock and reversi on the same machine! Except in Newbraska