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Actually, you can change the system font. And you can also change the system skin.
What exactly does "Marble" look like, what are the features of it? Does anyone have any links to information?
I really want to see
- TRIM
- Resolution Independence
- a better Flash implementation (3rd party software)
- the ability for cut & paste of files within the finder
- Quicktime BD
- some of the window features from Win7
- TRIM
- Resolution Independence
- a better Flash implementation (3rd party software)
- the ability for cut & paste of files within the finder
- Quicktime BD
- some of the window features from Win7
Its been rumored that Marble will be a cross between the look of iTunes 9 and iPhone OS3
Well, it's called 'make a living on the dumb masses'. Can spew out anything you want as a rumor/article/whatever, we (the dumb masses) are still here commenting about it, thus making the site stay alive.
By the way, I bet that in 2013 when we are waiting for 10.8 to arrive, we are still talking about a rumored interface lift (marble or whatever) that never happened in 10.7.
A new file system is a given. Other changes that will come up with the total paradigm revolution brought about by the tablet:
- Multi-touch friendliness all over with a new trackpad-based keyboard;
- end of the pure desktop metaphor, with 3D interface elements all over, Time Machine-like feedback and camera-based gestures and actions;
- UI resolution independence;
- even more cloud-based services à la MobileMe;
- new UI colors and fonts;
- Finder revamp based on shareware IPR purchased by Apple (LaunchBar et al.);
- wireless video streaming to from iTunes/Mac to Apple TV;
- full support of OpenCL and GCD by developers;
- native Blu-Ray support.
Just wait and you will see...
System preferences -> keyboard, you can set an all app shortcut for Zoom, I use cmd+E, give it a try
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10.6 is probably the worst 10.x since 10.0. Lots of problems and unhappy people.
People want things to "just work" again, not new eye candy and rearranging of the GUI.
WHY DON'T YOU FIX WHAT YOU STARTED/BROKE BEFORE STARTING SOMETHING NEW????!!!!!!!
I have been a Mac user for 18 years. The Mac experience used to be far superior and things truly did "just work".
Not any more.
My patience with Apple is wearing thin....
i work in an apple center... And I see generally very happy users on SL and no particila problems. So it is just your distorted opinion
Well that's true and by complaining about it I merely added fuel to the fire. How very 'meta' of me
.I suppose its no different to the "non-news" news that fills up most other media after all.
Aiden. I'm surprised man. An educated man like yourself can't understand the word "transition" ?
It would be nice to have a solid OS.
Apple is slack on getting their OS and major programs above the waterline of mediocrity and into undeniable excellence. Why they don't focus more on what they have, I don't know. Who truly gives a flyin' f' about a MARBLE UI?
Apple is slack on getting their OS and major programs above the waterline of mediocrity and into undeniable excellence. Why they don't focus more on what they have, I don't know. Who truly gives a flyin' f' about a MARBLE UI?
If we only take the current situation then yes they are best left as they are.
If you look at a years time when this release may go public then another two years from there.
Take the iPhone OS yes narrow range of hardware now, yet even at the introduction SJ said the AT&T deal was for the iPhone family of devices.
iPod touch doesn't count so how are they going to get a family of devices without changing screen size or adding distinct hardware. To do that they'd have to start adding some of the flexibility that separates Mac from Phone.
If a tablet gets added in that family (and the iPod Family as well) we'd hope they'd want to bring more mac like UI features like keyboard and mouse support as an option we can use when it suits us....
The other one we hope for multi-apps running with backgrounding and multi-tasking.
On the flipside On the mac there are many time a working day i think this 30sec task could be 5 if a had multi-touch screen like my phone. You start adding occasional touch to the main OS via first track pad then magic mouse and finally the screen itself then two are closer still.
I think the xserve, mac pro and mini also play on this after all they start with no user devices, yet have to allow for most user interactivity including remote only interaction.
If they currently build Two systems
One relies on having mouse and keyboard but can use touch in an expanding way.
the other relies on touch but starts to use a keyboard and a mouse and mutli-apps.
At some point it has to be better to have just one system that relies on nothing can use any or all of the above.
To me this again highlights that next big movement in computers is to make then situationally agnostic, one system I can use sitting, standing, in meeting, while talking,....
Plus it follows nicely from one of Mac OS X's main aims, a legacy from Nextstep, which was to be Hardware agnostics.
I don't think it's an over night change, I just the next moves Apple make will make it pretty obvious that this has been their plan for a while now.
10.6 is probably the worst 10.x since 10.0. Lots of problems and unhappy people.
People want things to "just work" again, not new eye candy and rearranging of the GUI.
WHY DON'T YOU FIX WHAT YOU STARTED/BROKE BEFORE STARTING SOMETHING NEW????!!!!!!!
I have been a Mac user for 18 years. The Mac experience used to be far superior and things truly did "just work".
Not any more.
My patience with Apple is wearing thin....
Care to be specific about the problems?
Personally, I too have been using Macs for 18+ and I'll take 10.6.2 over any previous version of "Classic" or OS X. 10.6.2 "just works" fine. Also for someone claiming to be a long time Mac user it's a little surprising to think you don't realize Apple works on updates to the current OS while concurrently developing the next version.
Apple had to do the 10.6 rewrite or OS X would have fallen behind. The under the hood improvements should bear fruit as s/w developers adopt them.
In the meantime if you are that unhappy with 10.6 then 10.5 is essentially the same GUI, without the behind the scene improvements you loathe. Either that or go Windows and put your self out of your OS X misery.
BTW I well remember 10.0 and 10.1 and there is NO comparison between those two and 10.6. The former two were essentially public betas that had minimal features -- not even CD burning initially -- and even less application compatibility.
Aiden. I'm surprised man. An educated man like yourself can't understand the word "transition" ?
I understand it (used to smooth transitions and long-time support with Windows), but it
seems to me like Apple has more of a track record of dropping support.
10.6 dropped support for PowerMac G5 systems that were quite a bit newer than many of the Core Duo
iMac/MacBook and Core Solo systems that it does support.
It also does not support x64 on some Core 2 models - systems that run Windows x64 just
fine. That's a gap, not a transition.
I would have said "10.6 will be x64-only, but Apple will continue to enhance 10.5 and 32-bit
consumer applications until August 2010 - when the newest 32-bit systems are three years old".
I was surprised to see that the Mini stayed with Yonah for a year after the Mac Pro went Core 2.
I like it but the one problem is it interferes with Spaces. dragging a window to the right of the screen to snap it into place sometimes results in it moving to the next space if you don't release the mouse/trackpad quick enough. And this error is costly to undo.
These are the reasons I come back to Macumors. A very good, informative post - thank you.
Yep
Time to get rid of those old "obsolete" machines. I think they shouldn't allow Core Duo either.
Time to get rid of those old "obsolete" machines. I think they shouldn't allow Core Duo either.
Yes
Hahahahaha// Yes absolutely. Time to transition away from Mac OS X too!!!! iPhone OS is the future. I say Apple gets a version of iPhone OS to run on their newest Macs and everyone can buy exciting new apps from the Apps store.
Time for another transition!!
Hahahahaha// Yes absolutely. Time to transition away from Mac OS X too!!!! iPhone OS is the future. I say Apple gets a version of iPhone OS to run on their newest Macs and everyone can buy exciting new apps from the Apps store.
Time for another transition!!
I'm not much of an analytics person, but when it says it's "Mozilla/5.0" then followed by "AppleWebKit/532.7.1 (KHTM L, like Gecko) Version/4.1 Safari/532.7.3"
Mozilla and Webkit aren't the same.
Mozilla and Webkit aren't the same.