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Mac OS 10.4.7 Update Soon?
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Applespider
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JW Pepper said:
Speak for yourself. I'm sitting looking at my iPhoto (6 tho I thought the functionality appeared in 5) sidebar which has several folders with various books/slideshows/folders tucked inside each one.
sphereboy
macrumors 6502
alienyouth211 said:
Mail looks fine.
What I really would like is a vertical display system. Something that along the lines of MS Outlook where you have 3 columns and your able to view a full email on one column. All these new widescreen monitors but Mail keeps using the age old 1 column 2 row look.
That would be a much welcome revision in my book. I'd even pay for it. Which will probably happen in Leopard.
daneoni said:
Same reason the haven't ditched it in the finder I suppose. All new versions are taking on the new look. But lots of apps don't get updated totally until the os does or until iLife does (as you mentioned).
I've hated the brushed metal since day 1.
WMV/AVI/ETC PLUGIN FOR SAFARI AND QT
I cannot emphasize that enough. Release codecs for QT to play that crap, so I don't have to open VLC or some other third party app after trying to download some video clip. Or trying to watch clips on Yahoo Movies, which doesn't detect QT on Intel Macs, or at least mine. Any wmv/avi/etc clip that is integrated into a page and not a downloadable file, you're screwed. Safaris integrated media playing functions blow hardcore. All that stuff has to run under emulation with Safari, clogging up system resources. Can't we get a native wmv/avi/etc codec for intel macs, and have it included in QT/Safari? 😕 😕
I like Safari as a browser, I don't want to have to use IE or Firefox. I haven't had any problems with the pages loading etc., but that's probably due to 2 gigs of ram, Intel Mini or not.
So far, to get any integrated file that's one of those files to play, you have to either boot up safari and plugins under rosetta, or boot up XP with Boot Camp. And the audio bugs in Boot Camp with headphones not cutting off speakers is quite annoying, particularly in a workplace if I want to watch CNN, etc on my break.
Gah! 😡
/rant over
Just frustrating considering the ease of use that accompanies most things on a Mac, only to get a jumble of third party apps etc to run those files on new Macs. If I wanted a plethora of third party apps, I'd use XP all the time 🙄
I know AVI isn't the best of formats because it combines the a/v into one stream etc, but there are still many of those files around. The WMV one is what i'd like more for QT. Just something straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, and not having to go third party. If new switchers buy a mac and boot up safari, only to realize half the files on news sites, yahoo, etc. can't be viewed....needless to say if I was a switcher I'd be a bit confuzzled.
And don't bother with the "well XP doesn't play AVI/Divx natively". XP is a crap OS. OSX should be above that.
I cannot emphasize that enough. Release codecs for QT to play that crap, so I don't have to open VLC or some other third party app after trying to download some video clip. Or trying to watch clips on Yahoo Movies, which doesn't detect QT on Intel Macs, or at least mine. Any wmv/avi/etc clip that is integrated into a page and not a downloadable file, you're screwed. Safaris integrated media playing functions blow hardcore. All that stuff has to run under emulation with Safari, clogging up system resources. Can't we get a native wmv/avi/etc codec for intel macs, and have it included in QT/Safari? 😕 😕
I like Safari as a browser, I don't want to have to use IE or Firefox. I haven't had any problems with the pages loading etc., but that's probably due to 2 gigs of ram, Intel Mini or not.
So far, to get any integrated file that's one of those files to play, you have to either boot up safari and plugins under rosetta, or boot up XP with Boot Camp. And the audio bugs in Boot Camp with headphones not cutting off speakers is quite annoying, particularly in a workplace if I want to watch CNN, etc on my break.
Gah! 😡
/rant over
Just frustrating considering the ease of use that accompanies most things on a Mac, only to get a jumble of third party apps etc to run those files on new Macs. If I wanted a plethora of third party apps, I'd use XP all the time 🙄
I know AVI isn't the best of formats because it combines the a/v into one stream etc, but there are still many of those files around. The WMV one is what i'd like more for QT. Just something straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak, and not having to go third party. If new switchers buy a mac and boot up safari, only to realize half the files on news sites, yahoo, etc. can't be viewed....needless to say if I was a switcher I'd be a bit confuzzled.
And don't bother with the "well XP doesn't play AVI/Divx natively". XP is a crap OS. OSX should be above that.
Versioning
I highly doubt it. "Normal" software versioning would make it 10.4.10, not 10.4.9.x. I wouldn't expect Apple to suddenly add another number onto their versioning scheme either.
sam10685 said:
I highly doubt it. "Normal" software versioning would make it 10.4.10, not 10.4.9.x. I wouldn't expect Apple to suddenly add another number onto their versioning scheme either.
TumbleDryer
macrumors 603
Quicktime 7.1.1 is available now so 10.4.7 should follow it out VERY soon. They usually send out Quicktime first! 😀
TumbleDryer
macrumors 603
thogs_cave
macrumors regular
longofest said:
Tell me about it. Somehow, the NFS automounter broke in 10.4.3 and hasn't been fixed as of yet. As a result, all my users are staying at 10.3.9 or (in a few cases) 10.4.2.
I've had more issues with Tiger than any other version of OS X, except perhaps for the public beta. It's almost as if someone at Apple is intent on cramming more and more into the OS and testing it less and less.
TumbleDryer
macrumors 603
thogs_cave said:
It wouldnt really make sense to do that because in a way they are updating it with 10.5. What would that be called? Back updating? Its a contradiction?! 😀
DSL Steve said:
Not true. From Wikipedia:
The most common software versioning scheme is a scheme in which different major releases of the software each receive a unique numerical identifier. This is typically expressed as three numbers, separated by periods, such as version 2.4.13. One very commonly followed structure for these numbers is:
major.minor[.revision[.build]]
To fully understand what's going on, check this out, paying particular attention to the section titled: "The Perforce Reference Life-Cycle Model". I'm not suggesting that Apple uses their product, or that their model is only, or best, model. But it does provide a clear description of what the version numbers represent.
IEatApples
macrumors 6502a
Logical, but I think it's really free for all, as Apple has not made a choice yet. I see no problem with 10.4.11, and I even think this is the only "correct" way of doing it. 🙂DSL Steve said:
The correct versioning would be 10.4.10 not 10.4.9.1 ...
x.9 is no the end all be all of versioning, look at World of Warcraft it's at 1.10 right now with 1.11 on the way.
There is no rule that you can only have 9 minor revisions.
x.9 is no the end all be all of versioning, look at World of Warcraft it's at 1.10 right now with 1.11 on the way.
There is no rule that you can only have 9 minor revisions.
gekko513
macrumors 603
I agree it would be nice to not have this debate every time there is a point upgrade to Mac OS X.bousozoku said:
So just to say this once more. The version number isn't a decimal number. Who has heard of a decimal number with two periods? Those are three integers separated by periods.
brepublican
macrumors 6502a
If Apple can fix the following, I would not be offended:
1. iPhoto. Whenever I open iPhoto, everything on my PB comes to a standstill. I know it uses a lot of RAM but c'mon, does every single app thats open have to beachball for 2 min until iPhoto is done loading my measly 1,700 photos? I'm sick. Sick and tired.
2. Safari. There has been enough said about it, support for media is very poor, even with the stupid Flip4Mac plug in.
3. iTunes (4.9) intergration with address book, iPhoto, etc. Takes forever to update on iPod.
1. iPhoto. Whenever I open iPhoto, everything on my PB comes to a standstill. I know it uses a lot of RAM but c'mon, does every single app thats open have to beachball for 2 min until iPhoto is done loading my measly 1,700 photos? I'm sick. Sick and tired.
2. Safari. There has been enough said about it, support for media is very poor, even with the stupid Flip4Mac plug in.
3. iTunes (4.9) intergration with address book, iPhoto, etc. Takes forever to update on iPod.
sam10685 said:
You are interpeting the "dot" as a decimal point. It is not the case because there are TWO dots in the version number. In this case we Americans should read the dot as a if it were a comma. Those in Europe, I asume would prefer to see the "dot" as they use a comma as a decimal place. We could use dashes but then someone, I'm sure would complian that 10-4-7 is a negative number
If I were to invent a system. I'd use a combination of roman numerals, Arabic numberal, and mixed case Latin alphabitic leters and then change the system eery couple years. So we'd have
Mac OS Xiv2a
Mac OS XB3iii
Max OS XIb3
and so on. This would insure that sites like this would have importent things to talk about for years to come
For those that missed the joke. Do you remember how UNIX version were named? Not unlike the above.