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OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' Seeded to WWDC Developers

LERsince1991 said:
oh im running along with the windows 7 man its cool but ie8 comes with it and suckes butoooox. Get fireing foxes
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:p erm... I just got home from my best mates 18th :eek:
lol, funny thing is, it made sense when I read it back last night
I think I meant: I have Windows 7 and it’s rather good but you get IE8 beta with it which sucks so get firefox. But that’s completely irrelevant ... :rolleyes:
 
LERsince1991 said:
i NHAVE WINDOWS 7 but mack is better since its metal am anodized and good so windows laptop is broken as of 5 hours ago. i dropped it and the corner is smashed... if only it was metal
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Oh and that roughly translates as Macs are better :cool: and I dropped my laptop and about an inch of plastic has smashed off the corner of the cover...
What would happen if I dropped a metal macbook?
 
LERsince1991 said:
Oh and that roughly translates as Macs are better :cool: and I dropped my laptop and about an inch of plastic has smashed off the corner of the cover...
What would happen if I dropped a metal macbook?
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you would probably have a mild stroke as your heart stops for a few seconds thinking to your self 'why the fu*k did i buy it if i am going to drop it' and nearly faint

then you regain consciousness and carry on doing whatever you were doing on the machine before...
 
balahir said:
Yeah, I know, but will the average user realize that, and be willing to pay $129 for these under the hood features?
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Having Microsoft Exchange support built in is enough for me.

Baffles said:
although Orchard Spy has learned that Apple is at this point continuing to churn out builds for PowerPC—but only internally.
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Kind of what they did in reverse before the switch to Intel. Keeps the bases covered and leaves Apple in a flexible situation should Intel stagnate and the PPC platform revitalize itself.

t0mat0 said:
I don't know about 10.10. I'd prefer Apple to go all the way to 11 asap ;)
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Nice dream. :)

Elven said:
OSX 11, Venom
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Awesome. Like the snake idea. :)

Eric S. said:
I bet you wouldn't. OS X 11 should signify a whole new code base for the OS, which would mean massive dislocations (think of the 9 -> 10 switch). That's not going to happen for a very long time.
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Party pooper! :p

Tallest Skil said:
All of his posts read as though he's trying to type Qwerty on a Dvorak keyboard...:confused:
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Got to remember that. Funny. Will use in the future.

Almost as good as writing the following on an evaluation: Pushes on doors marked, "PULL." :D
 
All this talk about Windows 7 and Vista. Yes, Vista has serious problems. I always think of windows as a platform for high end gaming, but even in that arena Vista has a big FAIL because for some reason, it will not allow two different types of video cards to be installed. XP can, and I believe Windows 7 can. So people that want to enable PhysX with a nVidia card and their primary GPU is an ATI card have to change their OS away from Vista.

Anyway, I'm more interested in SL, how it will take advantage of GPU's. Also what's the target for release, Summer, Fall? Before or after the back to school season?
 
bigmanathome24 said:
you would probably have a mild stroke as your heart stops for a few seconds thinking to your self 'why the fu*k did i buy it if i am going to drop it' and nearly faint

then you regain consciousness and carry on doing whatever you were doing on the machine before...
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lol well one drop in 5 years isnt that bad so when I have my Macbook it should be a while before I need to take that advice :p

... Hopefully
 
I actually think Apple will move to OSXI in the next 4 years.

However, rather than a new kernel or under the hood changes (which OSX doesn't need), I think it'll have a new interface and hardware paradigm. Apple is investing heavily in multi-touch, which doesn't make sense with the current monitor-keyboard-mouse interface. I think Apple are going to try and reinvent the desktop concept with multi-touch. That's going to require massive changes to the OS, which will be OSXI.

I have no idea what that will look like, but I expect it to be completely unlike how we use computers today.
 
Saladinos said:
I actually think Apple will move to OSXI in the next 4 years.

However, rather than a new kernel or under the hood changes (which OSX doesn't need), I think it'll have a new interface and hardware paradigm. Apple is investing heavily in multi-touch, which doesn't make sense with the current monitor-keyboard-mouse interface. I think Apple are going to try and reinvent the desktop concept with multi-touch. That's going to require massive changes to the OS, which will be OSXI.

I have no idea what that will look like, but I expect it to be completely unlike how we use computers today.
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You're exactly right.

Except the timeframe. Don't expect OS XI before 2020. Steve said so himself.
 
Riemann Zeta said:
PPC fans rejoice, it looks as if the 10.6 System will still be Universal. Perhaps in the end, the 10.6 disc will contain universal code, but the OS Installer will only install binaries for a specific platform (detected at startup). It would be cool if Apple could do this, as Microsoft's solution for 64bit-ness has been a completely separate build on a different disc.

The problem with a 64bit OS, however, is that only 64bit kernel drivers will work. Thus, hardware support will be extremely limited, just as it is on Windows NT6 64bit. Since everyone is going 64bit nuts, I guess I need more RAM for my MBP--you need at least 4GB to run a 64bit kernel, so 2GB just ain't cutting it anymore.
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So will it be 64-bit for G5 PPC users?
 
I sincerely doubt that

Saladinos said:
I actually think Apple will move to OSXI in the next 4 years.

However, rather than a new kernel or under the hood changes (which OSX doesn't need), I think it'll have a new interface and hardware paradigm. Apple is investing heavily in multi-touch, which doesn't make sense with the current monitor-keyboard-mouse interface. I think Apple are going to try and reinvent the desktop concept with multi-touch. That's going to require massive changes to the OS, which will be OSXI.

I have no idea what that will look like, but I expect it to be completely unlike how we use computers today.
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Reinvent? Things are the way they are for a reason. The best human interface devices are a keyboard and mouse, that is the fastest I/O by far that will not change for quite a while. The most viable alternative is speech/voice recognition, but that is not even feasible for a vast majority. Apple has much more serious work to do as far as the OS X user interface. The Dock is fantastic, but the static menu for all apps at the top of the screen is really antiquated. That interaction point has to move with the application. It may have worked when everyone had a 13" monitor, but it is woefully inadequate for the screens of today and tomorrow. They have implemented Spaces and Stacks very well, but to me those call out the fixed menu problem even more. Microsoft has caught up with the OS X UI in Windows 7 and most users are going to be very pleased with it. Apple really needs to make some improvements, hopefully, they will.
 
hate to be a party pooper too, X stands for 10.
So it wouldn't be OS X 11
It would be OS 11 or OS XI
 
I love the iLeader!

Someone questions the divinity of the iLeader? Na na na na na na na na iLeader!
 
dmmcintyre3 said:
But does anybody know if it boots and it says it will not install like leopard on a < 867 MHz G4 or it just kernel panics like leopard does on a G3
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If it doesn't support PPC, why would it contain enough code to even boot? PPC-Intel have alot less in common than G3-G4
 
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