Ooooo, but think of that possibility. Instead of opening up a laptop to half a screen, it could open up in book format, revealing double the screen space (of course if would then take up double the desk space, but still an interesting idea).
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Ooooo, but think of that possibility. Instead of opening up a laptop to half a screen, it could open up in book format, revealing double the screen space (of course if would then take up double the desk space, but still an interesting idea).
Actually, a torrent came out just hours after they handed out the preview at WWDC.
Won't say where to look for it though
tell me! lol (no, seriously)
Ahhhh, I remember that patent that recalled the use of multi-touch input for laptops (or a similar device) that would allow the user to change the type of input they were using. Interesting...
Hi. Where do they say that? I'd like to try to parse the meaning. Jobs said "Since nobody outside of the developer conference gets Leopard we're going to release [Safari 3 beta] on Tiger and on Windows today..." - 1:13:10 into the WWDC07 audio stream.
I sure hope so too. It'll take a while for developers to update their apps to take advantage of Leopard's new features. If Apple lets developers have it now (through the ADC seeding program or whatever), we'd have at least some apps ready when Leopard launches. Didn't SJ say there were something like 900,000 ADC members? And only 5,000 developers at WWDC this year? I would hate to have Leopard with nothing that shows off its features.
It's not just cover flow. The entire redesigned Finder is a knockoff of the iTunes interface.
Kinda sad that the iTunes-iPod-iPhone-AppleTV is the only real source of innovation at Apple. The iPod is driving everything else that's going on. The "death of the PC" doesn't seem so premature, does it?
If my memory serves me correctly the iTunes applications wasn't the first application to support a left Sidebar. Lot's of applications have this layout including Journler and Papers. It makes sense for many people as websites used to commonly put navigation links on the left side in a frame. It's not really the iPod taking over it's common sense taking over. If scroll bars are on the right then the other navigational elements should be either on top or on the left.
I disagree...I think your getting the impression here because iTunes had it first. But what you dont realize is that iTunes is GREAT way to test new ideas and see how it works. Because the program is small and light weight, compared to a full blown OS. It's a lot easier to remove iTunes features then Mac OS X features. I would suspect to see more of this later down the road.
If it works here, it can work there.....
Leopard 9A466
Leopard is much, much faster overall - Multi-threaded, Multi-Core optimization, Cocoa Finder - snappy beyond belief!
Leopard is much, much faster overall - Multi-threaded, Multi-Core optimization, Cocoa Finder - snappy beyond belief!
System Requirements still work for an upgraded Beige
Well that's a relief...
My Beige Desktop machine from 1998 has an upgraded Sonnet G4, "built-in" Firewire (via PCI), 768MB of RAM, and a Mac Radeon 128MB video card.
With a little tweaking of XPostFacto, I'm sure I can get 10.5 to run on it.
Or maybe I'll just get that next rev Mac Pro in the Fall, like I've been planning...
(And yes, the Beige is still my main Mac. You can start laughing.......now.)
Well that's a relief...
My Beige Desktop machine from 1998 has an upgraded Sonnet G4, "built-in" Firewire (via PCI), 768MB of RAM, and a Mac Radeon 128MB video card.
With a little tweaking of XPostFacto, I'm sure I can get 10.5 to run on it.
Or maybe I'll just get that next rev Mac Pro in the Fall, like I've been planning...
(And yes, the Beige is still my main Mac. You can start laughing.......now.)
well it seems to me that leopard is designed to look good/comparable to vista
a family walks into a computer store and looks at a mac and a pc side by side and they both have a sparkly interface, and then mom or pop look at the finder and go... wow it's set up just like the itunes program i use for my ipod. people like unified interfaces, its a common concept. then they go "oh i i buy the iMac i just take it out of the box and plug in the power and go i don't have to plug in a tower and sorts... then there is the announcement of games coming back to the mac platform. Apple is gearing up to reclaim some market share
THAT is why Steve said 2007 will be a big year for mac.
a family walks into a computer store and looks at a mac and a pc side by side and they both have a sparkly interface, and then mom or pop look at the finder and go... wow it's set up just like the itunes program i use for my ipod. people like unified interfaces, its a common concept. then they go "oh i i buy the iMac i just take it out of the box and plug in the power and go i don't have to plug in a tower and sorts... then there is the announcement of games coming back to the mac platform. Apple is gearing up to reclaim some market share
THAT is why Steve said 2007 will be a big year for mac.
Hi. At first, i want to say hello. It is my first post here.
I wanna question about stabilty of the 9A466 WWDC Leopard. Is it stable?
About this beta, does anyone know if it will be soon available in torrents? I develop a software of Mac and i want to release it soon, but i need a version of this beta.
Thanks a lot and great web which i read everyday. Thanks
I wanna question about stabilty of the 9A466 WWDC Leopard. Is it stable?
About this beta, does anyone know if it will be soon available in torrents? I develop a software of Mac and i want to release it soon, but i need a version of this beta.
Thanks a lot and great web which i read everyday. Thanks
Bingo. I don't think its any accident at all that the Leopard Finder looks/acts just like iTunes.
Apple is really counting on the (hundreds of millions of) folks who are used to using iTunes on Windows to become more familiar/comfortable with the Mac as a result. Lowers the barrier to switching. Smart play by
I think it does work better this way, actually. But its certainly not conspiracy theory to notice that there's also a very smart switcher strategy behind it. Its called 'horizontal integration'. People who are familiar with one Apple product will be able to learn another very quickly.
Its also part of why they released Safari for Windows (browsing on the PC is now just like browsing on the iPhone and the Mac), though its not the only reason why they did.
Server
I disk here says server.
were they giving out server, if so, anybody that got it, how does it work, compared to the rest of leopard
I disk here says server.
were they giving out server, if so, anybody that got it, how does it work, compared to the rest of leopard
Good stuff. And I wish Steve had hit that point hard during the WWDC Keynote... probably would've sold Leopard better.
As it was, he didn't even mention it. Or resolution-independence, which apparently IS in there, according to folks who have the WWDC Leopard Beta/Preview, whatever you wanna call it. WTH Steve?
Its not just the amount of memory available... its also memory speed and how that memory is accessed. Dedicated GPUs have memory that is faster than standard system memory.
That said, my iBook G4 is certainly a bit dated, and its GPU memory is not considered fast anymore, maybe even compared to standard system memory (which is what integrated graphics use).
Wrong!
Over 50% of all desktop PC sales are units under US$500. An Asus 8800 GTX costs $700. Yes other brands are cheaper, but the fact remains that most people spend less for their entire computer than you do on a video card.
I will admit, however, that almost all desktop PCs are able to take a better video card and that there are dozens of cards available at much better prices than Apple's offerings for the Mac Pro. Most of the blame for that must go on Apple for only having one expensive computer with a PCIe slot.
Especially when reports so far have been saying it IS appreciably faster. Every major OSX upgrade I've seen has been at least a little more snappy than the last, and this looks like it may be an even bigger boost than usual for many things.
Probably the same reason they need more for Tiger. I'm not really sure what that is though.
I agree, excellent selling point. There is one big problem, however; that iMac is going to seriously suck playing those new games. With no way to upgrade the video, little Billy is going to spend the next 4 years whining to his parents that he can't play games because they bought a "stupid Mac".
I worked in Apple retail in both the 1990s and for several years this decade and the problem is bigger than a lot of people are willing to admit.
The new batch of games from EA doesn't ship until next month. How do you know that there's no iMac update at that point (or sooner) with better video hardware?
And what exactly would be YOUR vision for "innovation" in the PC sphere, pray tell?