What's with REMOVING features? Can they seriously not figure out if something is going to be feasible or not before they advertize it? This is so microsoft.
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Leopard and Boot Camp: Faster "Restarts"
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Not true.
This is still on the Leopard preview page :
"Drivers galore.
In Leopard, Boot Camp comes complete with Windows drivers. No need to search the Internet or burn a disc. Now when you run a Windows application, you have full access to Mac hardware features (iSight, Apple Remote, trackpad, specific keyboard keys, keyboard backlighting) and connectivity (wired and wireless).
All features referenced in the Mac OS X Leopard website are subject to change."
Now..Think about that..
"No need to search the Internet or burn a disc."
If there's no need to burn a disk HOW does one install the drivers under Windows?
You cant just run the driver utility from windows if the drivers are on the Leopard partition.
Nope. Steve said during the keynote that the drivers would be included on the Leopard DVD. This implies to me, that the DVD would be a hybrid and you run it in windows to install the drivers.
Sorry.But..
ROFL
This is purely a business decision to yank the info to help Parallels sell copies knowing full well as soon as fast O/S switching is out Parallels goes down the tubes.
In the keynote, I thought he said that the Windows drivers would be on the Leopard install disk...
???
Of course, AFAIK either way it's wrong for them to say you don't have to burn a disk for the beta (or if purchased separately)
I hope the feature stays. When I first read about it, I was planning to get rid "gaming pc"(well make it my Solaris/Linux/*nix box only) and just use my Mac with Bootcamp and probably Parallels for light weight applications like Access.
I want to think that too, but it seems like there really are a lot of new features and major improvements under the hood of the OS. If that's true, then that alone would get me to upgrade.
And as far as "hibernation in XP" and how writing to the disk could be bad, doesn't XP and OS X have 2 separate partitions, meaning no changes could be made (I'm still on PPC so I haven't had the chance to mess around with it)?
Ahh, but Parallels blows when it comes to games, yeah even with their supposed graphics hardware support in the new version. This instant switching would be PERFECT for playing games.
Jobs NEVER said "the drivers would be included on the DVD".He said "bootcamp would be a part of the O/S"
THIS IS BAD!!! if they take that out ...it would be an awsome ideas!!! why would you not want to have it. bad move i say, im sure myself and alot of you guys would love to have that feature..
im guessing it would save the ram contents onto the harddrive and then restart into the diff os?? would it be similar to "deep sleep" that laptops use when the battery is low? it would be good if you could always do this, just save ram contents from both os's so u can come back at a later time, to which ever os u choose
i would LOVE that
im guessing it would save the ram contents onto the harddrive and then restart into the diff os?? would it be similar to "deep sleep" that laptops use when the battery is low? it would be good if you could always do this, just save ram contents from both os's so u can come back at a later time, to which ever os u choose
i would LOVE that
SJ had a perfect opportunity at WWDC to show us some of the "under-the-hood" improvements. He only showed us the paint job.
Ok folks..Why was it on the NEW Leopard preview page to begin with ??
And dylan I'd go watch that keynote again.He never even used the word "drivers"
And dylan I'd go watch that keynote again.He never even used the word "drivers"
it's too bad they removed it. i think this feature could really have been something with turbo memory (robson cache).
There would have to be some way to insure the integrity of the "put-to-sleep" volumes. Probably doable from the OS X end, but I'm not sure if this is something they could easily work into XP/Vista.
We're probably one OS iteration away from incorporating robson-type caching into the OS. but once that happens, instant switching should be a part of it.