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More Snow Leopard Screenshots, Chinese Handwriting Video

Current Snow Leopard Beta

A couple of things I noticed while using the latest Snow Leopard beta that I have yet to see mentioned:

- Safari 4.0 has a newly implemented "Loading" bar in lei of the circle in the current beta

- A2DP is supported through out the OS (works well in iChat 5.0). When switching to an A2DP headset Snow Leopard asks whether the user wishes to utilize a Bluetooth Headset (mono) or Headphones (stereo)

- In Finder -> View -> Show View Options, there is now an option under "Shared" for "Back to My Mac"

- Cut is now working in the OS (Command-X)

- Sharing Preferences now has a "Scanner Sharing" option

- When utilizing dual displays and adding folders under pictures for Desktop Wallpapers, you no longer have to add new folders in every display. Previously, you had to go into the Desktop Wallpaper of each display, add the new folder that contains the picture, then apply the new picture onto that particular display desktop.

- Keyboard and Mouse have different sections in System Preferences

- Menu Bar now supports full date and time for display (Day of the month was not displayed until Snow Leopard, Leopard only allowed iCal to show the current day of the month, not the menu bar).

I'm still playing around with it. Overall it is a VERY stable OS. I am currently using a 24" LED Cinema Display on my 8-Core 2.8 Mac Pro (3,1) with a new ATI Radeon 4870 Graphics Card. The ATI card was not fully functioning under 10.5.7, it worked but video/graphics would stagger/stutter, whether loading a new web page or running Final Cut Pro. I spoke with Apple, this is apparently a known issue. I installed a fresh copy of the latest Snow Leopard, and it runs BEAUTIFULLY, no video issues, and the OS is generally much faster in benchmark tests (XBench and Geek Bench).

This is a major update, under the hood, and if Apple revamps the GUI that would be a bonus for the general consumer market, who usually do not notice under the hood improvements.
 
I'm not fond of that new theme.

Spotlight needs some work to be more like it was in Tiger with the document type groups.

Quick Look in the Save menu is useful and hopefully it'll carry over Open dialog as well. I can say that Apple really lacks polish in those dialogs.
 
bedifferent said:
A couple of things I noticed while using the latest Snow Leopard beta that I have yet to see mentioned:

- Safari 4.0 has a newly implemented "Loading" bar in lei of the circle in the current beta

- A2DP is supported through out the OS (works well in iChat 5.0). When switching to an A2DP headset Snow Leopard asks whether the user wishes to utilize a Bluetooth Headset (mono) or Headphones (stereo)

- In Finder -> View -> Show View Options, there is now an option under "Shared" for "Back to My Mac"

- Cut is now working in the OS (Command-X)

- Sharing Preferences now has a "Scanner Sharing" option

- When utilizing dual displays and adding folders under pictures for Desktop Wallpapers, you no longer have to add new folders in every display. Previously, you had to go into the Desktop Wallpaper of each display, add the new folder that contains the picture, then apply the new picture onto that particular display desktop.

- Keyboard and Mouse have different sections in System Preferences

- Menu Bar now supports full date and time for display (Day of the month was not displayed until Snow Leopard, Leopard only allowed iCal to show the current day of the month, not the menu bar).

I'm still playing around with it. Overall it is a VERY stable OS. I am currently using a 24" LED Cinema Display on my 8-Core 2.8 Mac Pro (3,1) with a new ATI Radeon 4870 Graphics Card. The ATI card was not fully functioning under 10.5.7, it worked but video/graphics would stagger/stutter, whether loading a new web page or running Final Cut Pro. I spoke with Apple, this is apparently a known issue. I installed a fresh copy of the latest Snow Leopard, and it runs BEAUTIFULLY, no video issues, and the OS is generally much faster in benchmark tests (XBench and Geek Bench).

This is a major update, under the hood, and if Apple revamps the GUI that would be a bonus for the general consumer market, who usually do not notice under the hood improvements.
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Thank you for that - the GUI revamp will likely be held off until the very last minute to maintain the element of surprise.
 
DMann said:
Awesome foreshadowing of handwriting recognition capabilities.
Snow Leopard ought to be full of surprises, as we will likely find out a week from tomorrow.

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That is sweet. I hope they move to a black menu bar. It needs a look that fits in with the current Mac line. I hope there is a considerable speed increase.

The only things that piss me off about Snow Leopard is:
-no resolution independence'
-iTunes has not been touched and remains a 32-bit Carbon app

Things I hope for:
-sandboxed Safari tabs and a better interface than Safari 4
-QuickTime X supports many other formats natively (.mkv, .m2ts, and yes .wmv)
 
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Cut working (Command X) for both images and text

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Snow Leopard Safari 4.0 Loading Bar
 
twoodcc said:
sounds good. but i really hope we don't have to wait until october though
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I'll wait another 12 months if it means the release will be rock-solid. I think this is a great opportunity for Apple to be patient and to try their best to really perfect things before release.
 
str1f3 said:
Wow! Apple is changing Safari every 5 minutes. It definitely looks better. Are the tabs still the same?
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Yeah, the tabs are still the same. Except instead of three lines for grabbing a tab there are three triangular positioned dots.
 
Text replacement is very sexy. Kinda curious if there are character limitations (I'm sure there probably are) - would be nice to not have to rely on something like Textpander except for in extreme situations.
 
GorillaPaws said:
I'll wait another 12 months if it means the release will be rock-solid. I think this is a great opportunity for Apple to be patient and to try their best to really perfect things before release.
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Very much agreed - especially if more time allows for the implementation of Resolution Independence, a Quicksilver-like Spotlight, a tabbed Cocoa Finder with column view in CoverFlow, and full read/write ZFS.
 
DMann said:
Very much agreed - especially if more time allows for the implementation of Resolution Independence, a Quicksilver-like Spotlight, a tabbed Cocoa Finder with column view in CoverFlow, and full read/write ZFS.
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I'm all for that but the time isn't on Apple's side.

Then again I never planned on getting a new MacBook until 2010. The GMA X3100 is getting very painful to use.
 
What it showed in the video was the user wrote a couple of words in simplified Chinese, and the OS automatically provided the traditional Chinese writing as a choice. I don't think it's that hard to do the translation on the fly on Apple's part, but it's thoughtful that users can write words in simplified Chinese and the OS converts them to traditional Chinese.

The input interface looks very similar to what the iPhone / iPod Touch handwriting interface.
 
being Chinese I have much appreciate of your handwriting recognise!
And even more lovely being the song of Eurovision which plays while typing is of attempt!!

(posted by my new 3rd gen iPhone and emailed with love and swine from united hammers of America potboiler)
 
semiotic said:
This is not true. You're linking to an article about browser font rendering. Ever noticed how books usually come black on white?
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I am pretty sure it has more reasons than just the readability. Black papers are more costly than white papers in general unless things have changed in the recent times. Also...I don't recall of any consumer printer having the ability to print..white. If the papers are black, than how you put white on it? So it's easier and cheaper to just go with the flow.

The readability is different for each person. A lot of people can read off-white font on dark background just as well as black on white.
 
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