Those are words of either a comedian or a madman. Which one are you? Vista is ugly, cluttered, unintuitive and completely without style or consistency. The day Apple gets one iota of inspiration from Vista is the day my Macbook Pro goes up for sale.
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Those are words of either a comedian or a madman. Which one are you? Vista is ugly, cluttered, unintuitive and completely without style or consistency. The day Apple gets one iota of inspiration from Vista is the day my Macbook Pro goes up for sale.
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Are you free to comment on Spotlight in Leopard?
Is it working any better than in 10.4? I don't mean boolean searches with and/or...
I mean is it finding new files/emails without difficulty? Lots of problems with Spotlight in 10.4.
Thanks for the link,
I had no idea that you could buy a system at a huge discount if you sign up for the beta program... waiting for the new iMacs...
I had no idea that you could buy a system at a huge discount if you sign up for the beta program... waiting for the new iMacs...
Start a new thread in the Marketplace, then, because OS X's been copying from Vista almost as much as Vista has been copying from it.
Does anyone know if LEAP works right in this build? My iPhone not working with LEAP is bad enough.
What exactly has Leopard copied from Vista? Can you actually point out anything, or are you just talking?
Transparent menubar, the blurring of the background behind transparent windows, transparent glossy black UI for the iPhone's 'slide to unlock' element and home screen, all was done on Vista before seen on OSX. Also the curvy line that runs through the new dock is very reminiscent of the pattern that MS uses behind their 'glass' apps. Both look butt ugly.
So basically all you can come up with that Leopard has allegedly copied are graphics and visual design. Nothing that has to do with actual usability. Well first, the iPhone has nothing to do with Leopard. I'm not even going to try to refute that Leopard copied the idea of transparency in user interface elements from Vista because that's a fairly basic concept. If that's all that people can come up with, though, its a pretty weak and useless argument to outright state that "Leopard copied Vista."
You can do that now in Disk Utility. You just have to format your drive as Case Sensitive. Leopard is no different.
You do know that's a Microsoft app right?
it copied the "it's gonna be out this date then delay the release date" concept from vista
Vista's UI is better and much more polished than XP's for sure but he is right, it is very inconsistent (the menu bars change from app to app, etc.). Even Windows fanboys have mentioned that annoyance.
I'm sorry, but not because the new menu bar is transparent makes it a rip off from Vista. It doesn't even look remotely Aero, except the fact you can see through it. I like the new bar, unlike many. It seems Aqua keeps evolving from kiddie to mature, and this new menu bar is a big step at that.
Same goes for the new Dock, really. I'll take the 'icons sitting on a glass plate'-approach any day.
Don't format as case-sensitive. Many apps don't support it. Adobe is the one that sticks out in my mind. their programs refer to libraries inside their own application with different cases. This is fine in regular HFS, but it breaks when you make it case-sensitive, and it took me awhile to figure this out when I did it. then you have to totally reformat... fun.
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Ok, give us facts. Personnaly I don't see anything taken from Vista in Leopard. And don't tell me transparency, it exists on Mac OS X since 2001 ...
What's next ? That Apple copied Sun for the dock ?
In the meantime you can make your VNC a little more pleasant by using Schnitz.. Its a small app that calls you, instead of you calling your friend/client. All you need is 'Chicken of the VNC set to listen.
It's snappier
No pausing between characters typed and no problems i've found..
Only the menu bar icon doesn't turn white when clicked unlike everything else.
Yes.. yes I have. And I think it's ugly, cluttered, unintuitive and completely without style or consistency
Um, not quite. Watch David Pogue's video review on Vista:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaIUkwPybtM
Vista: copied Exposé, Spotlight, UI, etc, etc, etc, besides the fact that Windows Vista is like someone buying a $2,000 used Ford and installing a $10,000 stereo unit. It doesn't add up...
Which means that Apple copied it from Windows 2000
We had transparency, internally at NeXT, running on Openstep 4. We just never released it. In fact, there were several fixes to the Window Server and more that later moved into OS X that was never released at NeXT.