I am actually wondering how much code is actually in the drivers which Apple use? how dependent are they on Intel when it comes to supporting x3100 and 950? I'm always amazed at seeing that the open source drivers and OpenGL implementation seems to be light years ahead of what should be paid programmers.
It took the open source devs a decade to come up with a good OpenGL implementation. They always seem to have a major graphic stack replacement every 4-5 years that just doesn't work like the previous stack and would take a year or two to catch up. Not to mention, they don't have compatibility with all graphic cards and in some cases, it would take half a year to get decent drivers for new graphic cards.
You used the word, "seems", they aren't light years ahead of anybody. They look like it but they aren't.
Makes me wonder whether 10.7 will be the eventual kernel switch to 64bit. will we see 10.7 being released at the end of next year given that this is the basis of a new OS where all the major features can be added based on the new technologies introduced.
Depends if we did see the last of all new technologies being introduced. I can't help feeling that Apple wasn't able to get everything done in time for the W7 release and had to pull some stuff out. They could've waited a month or two to include 64bit driver suite for all Intel GMAs but they didn't.
I think 10.7 is another one of those two years release like Leopard.
I've never liked the idea of delta - it might save a couple of megs and some minutes by the idea of patching is akin to hoping that things don't go pear shaped. Its amazing the number of people here who do install the delta, have problems but when they install the combo - none of the same problems crop up.
Majority of people who install delta don't have problems. Most of them don't come to the forum and actually say this. Majority of complains always show up in forums because that's the only public option.
Yeap, unfortunately Silverlight, the alternative, hasn't be full opened and standardised by ECMA - if it did, and Microsoft produced Silverlight development tools for Mac OS X - it would mop the flaw with Flash.
Totally agree. MS is a frigging moron for not realizing this. Their development suite is top quality and people have no problem paying for the license. I would rather use VS than XCode if MS releases it for the Mac. They could have VS be another one of the cash cows if they just open source Silverlight and several other technologes for free and just charge for the development. I doubt anybody can come up with a better dev suite than MS, look at Moonlight dev suite, they suck last time I check.
Unstable? you mean useless users installing crap like 1password and wondering why things go pear shaped? the same nincompoops who install extensions BASED ON UNDOCUMENTED/PRIVATE FRAMEWORKS WHICH GUARANTEE NO COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN RELEASES and then whine when things go down the toilet?
I understand stuff like APE, but 1password isn't crap. 1password is one of the best software available for the Mac and a serious must have for people who wants password manager. It promotes better security. Not to mention Glims, another hackie for Safari that people love. But I agree, APE as hackie is the worse fraking thing ever developed. I hated it.
As for private frameworks or undocumented API, unfortunately, there's nothing else those companies can do. Apple will not release a public API for Safari, they don't believe in the same thing as Mozilla or Google when providing plugins for browser. 1Password managed to figure out how to get it working fine without causing additional crashes to Safari in both 32/64bit modes. I don't think the fault is at them, the majority of the fault should be placed on Apple.
People create their own personal hell - Snow Leopard isn't perfect but it is a f---k load better than Vista was at this point.
Yea I worked in IT, people manage to screw things up that's just seem impossible for the rest of us.
Vista SP2 is not bad, original Vista was ugly and bad but it took MS a long time to fix it up. Apple isn't perfect either. They managed to screw things up as well with their first point release.
I just hope that Apple put 10.6.2 under the microscope for another 3 weeks - go absolutely hardcore checking. I would sooner tolerate some bugginess until 10.6.2 arrives instead of it being delivered soon with bugger all problems fixed.
LOL, Apple should've gone hardcore checking with the first point release, not .2 release. I doubt SL will become optimized and stable for another several releases. I would say 10.6.5 should be good enough, that's anywhere 5-10 months away.
Initially 10.6 seemed to speed things up but now, a couple of weeks later, I find lots of little glitches; safari and flash both crash, together and separately, often. Lots of small operations are slower than they were under 10.5...anything from opening windows to saving files. 10.6 has real problems working with the superdrive. I have repaired permissions and been on the phone w/apple tech support blah blah but the bottom line seems to be that 10.6 is just not great. I would say this is the worst upgrade experience I have ever had with an apple OS. I hope 10.6.2 is a significant improvement because apple, in my opinion, as it has become larger and more successful, has also lost something in the QA department. Ubuntu is looking better all the time!
You aren't going to have perfect experience with Ubuntu either, every OS upgrade can happen just like that. You said worst upgrade experience, have you ever considered fresh install? It fixed several members' issues just like yours.
Honestly, I would like to see some improvements to Safari 4 as well. (I know that this would usually be a separate release). While Safari 4 and 64-bit finally caught the browser up to speed with other browsers in many aspects, Safari is still really bare-boned as far as features go and has a lot of room for improvement. So yeah, it's fast now, and reasonably stable with 64-bit, but give me something not practically useless like Coverflow and Top Sites in the next update. Every other browser is making great strides.
That's cuz Apple thinks they are the only one in the world who can make software that everybody loves and nothing else is needed. They have this policy and thus they won't be opening up an API for plugins for Safari. They hated the fact that flash was causing majority of the crashes in Safari, you think they want to open it up to more? Unfortunately, opening up the API will bring in possible additional slowdowns, crashes and memory leaks. That happens to Firefox as well a lot of time.
