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Apple Seeds Mac OS X 10.5.6 to Developers
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Yep, it does work -- *very* well.
Believe it or not, not having an easy right-click was the #1 issue holding up my PC-to-MBP switch, as I use it *all* the time in XP and Vista. In my book, having to press a control key while clicking, thus requiring two hands on the keboard when working just with the mouse pointer, was a terribly half-@$$ed approach, unbefitting the otherwise graceful execution of the OSX gui.
Inclusion of the one-tap right click in the lower corner of the track pad was the perfect solution for me. Once I confirmed it worked well, I proceeded to drink the Kool-Aid the first day the MBP was available in the local Apple Store
You realize that you have been able to right-click by clicking with two fingers on the trackpad?
i agree 100%.
unless you are downloading 5gb of porn or movies a day (which is illegal in the first place) you really have no need for this type of size for backups. DVD's work fine for me at the moment and I am still contemplating getting a 1TB external for a continuous backup for time machine.
as for as DVDs, i think regular DVD's are fine for me for backing up normal files. i agree that hdtv or blu-ray looks spectacular on my 52'' plasma but spending 500$ for a nice player and 30$ a pop per blu-ray dvd, i really dont see the cost-benefit for it.
plus i only buy DVD's of classic movies that i will watch over and over that i truly enjoy... I dont buy every new DVD that is released like most people out there. =\
no blu ray
Gosh, all these whiney babies about Blu-Ray!! Just because apple doesn't bundle it up and include in leopard doesn't mean you can't do it.
Buy an external Blu-ray drive and get roxio toast!
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/overview.html
Do you take high resolution pictures or edit video, or produce electronic music? IF you did, you would know how quickly it fills up.
I think that you, Jahutch, like a lot of Blu-ray advocates, are in danger of confusing the medium with the message. A crap film is still crap, even if it's in 1080 and a great film, or clip of some great band performing live, is still great even if it's in 480 or less (which it most often is). Yes, it would be great to watch everything in life in the greatest possible quality, but it's just not possible. If I had to choose between watching some classic film or great music performance in crap VHS quality or some piece of mega-budget hollywood **** in 1080, then give me the classic every time. There's more to life than pixels. Try and think different, and not just think with your 50 inch screen and your 50 gig disks.
I agree, mostly. I think BluRay is cool and all, but not exactly a needed update in a notebook.
I want more snow leopard info.
We'll probably have to wait til MWSF 09.
You echo all the early 2008 MacBook Pro/Air customers. I actually thought that since it would have the multi-touch chip, I'd be able to get the new gestures. I thought of it as a future proof thing. Guess I was wrong.
I fully agree. While 10.5.5 did fix some of the graphical corruption issues on my machine, there's still the menubar doesn't follow app focus reliably issue, the iTunes dashboard widget still doesn't work properly, Finder's Find is ironically terribly implemented, open/save dialogs need a lot more customisability, etc.
I look forward to 10.5.6 but I'm almost certain it will again ignore my bugs.
You can set either the bottom right or left corners to be the secondary click area.
Pretty good actually, I'm a right hander so I'd set the bottom right, left handers could set the bottom left.
Get WD 320GB external HD, problem solved.
How about WD 320GB Passport external drive for $99? It is faster, smaller & lighter than iPod touch, cheapper than BD drive and works with any computer/OS with USB 2.0. How many computers have BD drives? You do the math... As fleshman03 mentioned below, BD is just economical disaster to be useful at the moment. To get 320GB of BD capacity will cost $280 vs $99 for HD. Thanks, but no thanks.
I have BD, HD-DVD, SACD, DVD-A content and I would care less about any of them supported by my Macs. I have HT player supporting them all. What is the point to use it on a tiny computer when you could watch it on HDTV and listen to a receiver.
Absence of FW in new MB is a bigger trouble for Apple, then BD would ever be!
How about WD 320GB Passport external drive for $99? It is faster, smaller & lighter than iPod touch, cheapper than BD drive and works with any computer/OS with USB 2.0. How many computers have BD drives? You do the math... As fleshman03 mentioned below, BD is just economical disaster to be useful at the moment. To get 320GB of BD capacity will cost $280 vs $99 for HD. Thanks, but no thanks.
I have BD, HD-DVD, SACD, DVD-A content and I would care less about any of them supported by my Macs. I have HT player supporting them all. What is the point to use it on a tiny computer when you could watch it on HDTV and listen to a receiver.
Absence of FW in new MB is a bigger trouble for Apple, then BD would ever be!
Damnit Apple, just let me use those new Multitouch functions in my Multitouch capable Mac. Stop screwing owners of your previous-gen products.
Damnit Apple, just let me use those new Multitouch functions in my Multitouch capable Mac. Stop screwing owners of your previous-gen products.
I BEG everyone with early 2008 MBPs or MBA's to BOMBARD sjobs@apple.com with requests for the 4 finger multitouch
there's no way I'm settling for this - spent over £2K on this machine - the least i would expect is the common courtesy to update it to its full potential
Apple can not get away with overcharging their customers, then forgetting about them when they release a new product
Its blatant greed, and disregard. I see no other reason for it
It's hardly like people are going to upgrade just for the extra finger
They have no good reason not to update, and it's time the millions that buy from Apple show them who's boss
sjobs@apple.com - Attack !!
sorry for the slightly cheesy epic-ness, but you get the point
^ is "one extra finger" that big of a deal to you? Function over form please. Heck, I don't even have the multi-touch, except on my iPod touch maybe, and I'm still living life. Even if you have multi-touch, I'd still probably be able to navigate through the OS 2X as fast as you can. I think you just want to rant and complain to make yourself believe that your Penryn MBP is not "outdated".
The only thing that is "blatant greed, and disregard" is yourself. You are just too greedy. In the technology world, things are updated all the time. my 2 month HDTV was upped by another model from Toshiba. My MacBook has already seen two upgrades, one of them major. A computer is to be used, not to be shown off like jewelry.
The only thing that is "blatant greed, and disregard" is yourself. You are just too greedy. In the technology world, things are updated all the time. my 2 month HDTV was upped by another model from Toshiba. My MacBook has already seen two upgrades, one of them major. A computer is to be used, not to be shown off like jewelry.
I want 10.6!
nice to see work on leopard continue... as long as another 10.2.8 doesn't happen again I'll be happy
nice to see work on leopard continue... as long as another 10.2.8 doesn't happen again I'll be happy