DavidLeblond said:
I agree. I don't like the search feature of Safari. It's annoying. I love Firefox's search feature tons more.
And if this is really what it's going to be like, I'll be a happy guy.
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I agree. I don't like the search feature of Safari. It's annoying. I love Firefox's search feature tons more.
And if this is really what it's going to be like, I'll be a happy guy.
AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
Yes I can. I don't think they hyped it at all other than saying they would preview it at WWDC. That' pretty much all I remember hearing. No hype at all.
LoveMacMini said:
LoveMacMini said:
LoveMacMini said:
Whilst i really do agree with alot you say i have been reading multiple threads today where you have posted and for some reason reading your posts makes me want to track you down and hurt you!
You actually talk alot of sense but do everyone a favour and preview your post to see how it will come across to others. Your posts seem to get peoples backs up and i notice how people are ignoring your comments and sometimes not bothering to reply.
Sorry but i really had to get that off my chest.
Back OT i don't think much to leopard myself at the moment but i guess we will just have to see what else they pull out at release.
jholzner said:
I suppose you're right - although did they make as big a deal when they previewed Tiger a few years back?
When you clicked on the WWDC page, everything was about Leopard - that was the main focus of the show. I'm not sure how they did things with Tiger...but clearly, one of the biggest reasons to encourage people to attend the show was to see what Leopard would provide. For developers, I think that it provides a lot (core animation and 64-bit to say the least) - for consumers, much less, but it was a developers show, so we'll see what happens in the future...
fowler. said:
Is a Preview Release the same as a Beta. I think of Preview as getting a version of Tiger and bolting on some features from Leopard and calling it a preview.
Prior previews included iChat AV, Boot Camp, and Safari. I think Beta will include the real OS.
BornAgainMac said:
Heh. You have no idea how much has changed (a lot of it, probably the majority of it, is not user-visible).
A beta is generally feature complete (until Google decided to single-handedly change the definition).
I think with Leopard, we have seen wholesale under-the-hood improvements. Question is just how much Apple change the front end. OSX is already incredibly refined. It becomes harder and harder to top that with a new OS outside of making lots of subtle but welcome improvements. I feel Apple will be judged on whether they can induce the "oh ****!" factor though.
I think with Leopard, we have seen wholesale under-the-hood improvements. Question is just how much Apple change the front end. OSX is already incredibly refined. It becomes harder and harder to top that with a new OS outside of making lots of subtle but welcome improvements. I feel Apple will be judged on whether they can induce the "oh ****!" factor though.
Quote trimmed for emphasis on that text as a complete statement. They're not showing some of the cool features that will appeal to users and won't really matter to developers, I think. People shouldn't complain about an incomplete Preview build.AvSRoCkCO1067 said:
Anyway, I haven't heard any comments regarding that freaky glossy purple Help menu! I though it was really weird and out of place looking. Not that I think it looks BAD, but it seems pretty inconsistant. I wonder what kinds of changes they have in store for the GUI, if anything.
Good to know that actions (or the lack thereof) speak louder than words.eenu said:
And about Leopard, I was very impressed with what I saw in the Leopard Preview and I really can't wait to see how Microsoft responds, if they do at all.
I have to admit, this is really cool. I thought that Leopard would look and feel the same as Tiger, with only under-the-hood changes. Now, although it looks like Tiger, the feel is defferent, it gives the impression of everything moving, and everything related to each other.
I must say that I'm looking forward to this OS... which I believe it will still be ages ahead of Vista.
I must say that I'm looking forward to this OS... which I believe it will still be ages ahead of Vista.
Foxglove9 said:
It shouldnt slow your mac anymore than without the slick effects. These effects are generated directly by the GPU not the CPU. The only time it may slow down is when you are doing something that requires a lot of GPU (a game for instance) but you wouldnt normally be navigating the finder while playing a game would you?
Or it may be slow if you have a ***** video card
im betting all my chips that Leopard will be breathtaking, using coreAnimation so much, to make it look like a completely active UI.
stuartluff said:It shouldnt slow your mac anymore than without the slick effects. These effects are generated directly by the GPU not the CPU. The only time it may slow down is when you are doing something that requires a lot of GPU (a game for instance) but you wouldnt normally be navigating the finder while playing a game would you?
Or it may be slow if you have a ***** video card
since its obvious the future of ALL cpus is multiple cores on a single die, even for the crappiest machine and in a decade probably even in pocket calculators....
Eventually what is an average user going to do with an 8 core machine? My thinking is that lots of software by then, OSes and anything else, will have lots of threads or something running that do lots of things in the background all at the same time, and youd never notice a slow down.
If in ten years we have octa-core chips, and the crappiest cpu you can put in an e-machine is still quad core, then what would the "average" user do with all that computing power?
Am I the only one who things the Core apps should've had some sort of apple core related logo? What a clever pun that would've been.
apfhex said:
How about there aren't enough f's in Fugly to describe it.
How about every time I see it I have bad xp flashbacks.
How about every time I see it I get filled with mortal dread that the entire menu bar system will look like that...
I like the glossy look, and the reason the help menu is purple is because that's the OS X "help color" if you look at any system help button, it's purple.
I hope that they extend the glossy look. The minute I saw the Tiger menubar, I thought "That's the direction the interface is going." I hope I was right, because I'm not a huge fan of metal, although the metal title bars are looking better with the unified look.
I hope that they extend the glossy look. The minute I saw the Tiger menubar, I thought "That's the direction the interface is going." I hope I was right, because I'm not a huge fan of metal, although the metal title bars are looking better with the unified look.