I guess the rumor of Final Cut Pro X utilizing the advanced QuickTime APIs in Lion were false.
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I guess the rumor of Final Cut Pro X utilizing the advanced QuickTime APIs in Lion were false.
Sure, but its not intended to be a feature rich utility for power users. If you have that many apps why bother with Launchpad? Why not Spotlight, Quicksilver, Launchbar, Dragthing, etc.
Although to be honest Im not really sure who Launchpad is intended for. Its useless for power users and doesnt seem to present any improvement in usability over the Dock for novice users.
Personally I find Launchpad completely useless, but whatever, I took it out of my Dock along with every other application icon and just use a keyboard-based launcher. Problem solved.
Not necessarily.
I've never heard of that as a rumor. The theory is that Apple will be using the new AVFoundation framework. It will be interesting to see what the new tech is.
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Hi am a newbie on this site and sorry if i post here, just want to have help for you guys its very urgent, since last week i can't solve this problem,
I'm installing actually a windows OS on my imac, so my imac now is running windows7 N OS my concern is i can't hear any sound for it, when im using my imac the sounds is there but when i shift to windows i can't hear it anymore the sound, i install already the realtek high definition audio latest version but still it doesn't work when i check my devise manager on sound, everything is okay, so i don't know whats going on, if you guys has experience also on this and solve the problem can you share it to me...thanks
You should have started a new topic, but did you install your Bootcamp drivers?
You can't map OS production on the 5-7 years because technology change so fast that you have to look around. Perfect example in mobile OS business from technology perspective Apple is not a leader. WebOS is much more user friendly and easy to use that iOS. Perfect example how Apple loose the gear in the race is OpenCL, it's already in MacOS X but how many apps you could find that use OpenCL? OpenCL was announced and I don't see any apps that use graphics chips to encode video for example together with CPU but for Windows you could find many apps that use CUDA to encode video to h.264.
So, Apple was a leader while announce support for OpenCL in MacOS X and that was it. They have promise a lot of things with OpenCL but I don't see any apps on the market that use OpenCL. My point is that it's impossible to map OS development for 5-7 years.
sorry i was supposed to start my new thread but this site wont allow me to put my new thread, i don't know why, so i tried to comment on this thread, anyway yes my windows is put on a bootcamp
Except that it isn't trivial to modify a program to use multiple threads and cores and graphics card for calculus... Although the benefits are enormous it had to the complexity of the verification of the software.
The fact remains that it is a change that is going to be necessary (on the part of the software developers) to rewrite app so they all the cores (and not just a couple) and if available the GPUs and Apple made it easy with GCD and openCL.
Their own foray into this new era os software is going to be Final cut X.
The fact remains that it is a change that is going to be necessary (on the part of the software developers) to rewrite app so they all the cores (and not just a couple) and if available the GPUs and Apple made it easy with GCD and openCL.
Their own foray into this new era os software is going to be Final cut X.
Just got a new Macbook Pro 13" but I don't have any plans on upgrading to Lion anytime soon. However, I will get my upgrade DVD.
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Wow, every post I've read from this guy this morning has been a bit negative. Bummer.
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Wow, every post I've read from this guy this morning has been a bit negative. Bummer.
They will probably announce the Lion Up-to-Date program on June 6. Historically, though, it's 9.95 for a disc shipped for anyone who has purchased a mac on or after that date. (With the Mac App Store, they may give free redeem codes this time.) So if you've already bought your iMac you're probably out of luck.
I'm not sure what you mean by that. After you installed Windows 7, did you then insert your SL disk and install the Bootcamp Drivers located on the disc?
hmm let me think it first...should i install the disc for Bootcamp? when i try to partition my imac, Bootcamp appears right away and give me a chance to work and install my windows OS there, i think bootcamp installed right away before it delivered to me cuz everything was running already in my mac OS and everything...
I think are confusing the Bootcamp utility with the Bootcamp (read: Windows) drivers. Do the following:
1. Boot into Windows 7.
2. Insert your Snow Leopard DVD.
3. Install the Bootcamp Drivers located on the disc.
Here is the Bootcamp setup guide. Go to step 4, it's essentially what I've outlined above.
yes thank you so much Cougarcat i got it already i can now hear my sounds thru installing the Bootcamp Drivers, am so happy for it, just right on time tomorow will be my works to do and i needed very badly the sounds, again thank you so much
Been using Mac since 1996. I have embraced every new OS with totally open arm since then. I have loved every OS X version along with its new features and intuitive thinking. But with Lion I feel like I am thrown back to the days of cheetah. And that is not progress at least NOT in a positive direction.
I DO realize that this is a beta but this here very topic was about the rumor that Lion was about ready to be released. And if THAT is not just a rumor then Lion will be an OS that will force me to stay on Snow Leopard until they fix it or have me swap to Windows.
I haven't used the developer build so I cannot comment on whether it's ready or not
My questions are price and method of delivery. Seeing as snow leopard was $29 I am assuming somewhere around that price point which brings me to my second question of method of delivery. Given apples push to online distribution I am betting the update will be exclusively sold through the Mac AppStore. Just a hunch though
Why are people naive enough to think Lion would be $30 bucks? Snow Leopard was by apple's description a service pack, not a full blow OS release. Someone help me with this, but was it like 10.2.5 or something that was put out for $20 years back? And the next version back to the $100+ price point.
The only reason I'm not fully convinced it will ship at the normal $129 is that when they did release Snow Leopard, at that even it was discussed that going forward releases would be more incremental in scope and less frequent. (Translation: we really can't figure out what else to put in here kids.) I'd love a $30 update, but it would be nuts for anyone to think what's touted as a full blown OS update is going for the price of government cheese.
I hope they learned their lesson with Leopard. Forget Cheetah. It was great that Leopard sold millions of copies upon release, but us poor saps found it had an installer that didn't do one important thing.... oh, install anything. They had to release software fixes, pulled all inventory and replaced all the discs within a month or so... and when you finally did get it to install (after 100 retries and being locked out of your system all day), then you got to the bugs that took 2-3 updates before it really "roared."
After that embarrassment, and the Mobile Me fiasco, I don't think Jobs would let that cat out the door if it was as bad as people with the preview are saying. Last time he just told his staff they should hate themselves for their screw up, this time who knows what he'd do? Test out that disintegration ray in the lab on them? Maybe his medical leave this time is for anger management issues? But... I do love him and his style. "What's Mobile Me Supposed to do?" <gets correct answer.> "Then why the f*%! doesn't it do that?"
Launchpad is lipgloss and has no purpose. If you use an app a lot, it's on the dock. And if you are the least bit savvy, spotlight is much faster than finder. If you're more savvy, hot key spotlight. I don't get the whole "IOS" factor for Lion really.
-Finally !
I cant wait, so do this mean that it will be like 3 times faster than snow leopard ?
I cant wait, so do this mean that it will be like 3 times faster than snow leopard ?
10.1 was a free update because 10.0 was so incomplete. It was essentially a huge service pack. Other than that, every release besides SL has been $129. Won't be as expensive this year, if only for the fact that developers will get Lion as a part of their $99 dev. account. I do expect Lion to be priced quite aggressively, but I agree that $29 is pushing it.
When the hell did that happen? The only thing I remember with Leopard was Unsanity LLC's APE (Application Enhancer) which once again proves the point that you shouldn't install crap that doesn't use public API's and hacks around with the internals of the system. Where is the Leopard install problem that you claimed existed?
Because the people who made the decisions underestimated, over promised, and under delivered on the day. They should have operated on a huge influx of end users, they should have stress tested the servers into the realms of statistics that are far beyond what would be considered 'normal'. When you earn the big dollars the buck stops with you - and quite frankly it was abysmal given that it could have been easily avoided.
But it might be possible for a cheaper version (below $129) as Apple brings in more revenue from the cut they take from the AppStore - where the aggressive pricing means users upgrade to the next version quicker and developers therefore take advantage of new OS features quicker. In other words it'll be the Apps themselves that propel the operating system and in turn the hardware sales forward just as in the case of iOS devices.
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