Paul Thurrot's Review of Leopard

[spookje]

Time Machine is so slow. Already running for five hours and only 6gb back upped using my Firewire 800 500gb drive

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Yes but the point with regards to spotlight is that Spotlight was a feature the Windows crew saw when Tiger was introduced. When the windows crew saw this and several other features in Tiger, they went back to the drawing board with Vista. To say Apple copied microsoft with spotlight just shows how little this guy knows about what went on in the development of both Microsoft and Apple.


BTW, I love my macbook pro, but I use windows too, although I have intentionally steered clear of vista because UAC just pissed me off one too many times.

hate to break this to you but sport light is a copy from windows. It was known about something a lot like spot light being in vista LONG before it was known about being in tiger. Windows desktop search added to XP (no where near as good but XP file system just can not handle it) before tiger.

Just correcting the facts. Spot light is a stolen idea from windows. Not the other way around.

 

[vansouza]

Fast?

Time Machine is so slow. Already running for five hours and only 6gb back upped using my Firewire 800 500gb drive

I don't think TM is supposed to be fast except when it restores...

 

[Project]

hate to break this to you but sport light is a copy from windows. It was known about something a lot like spot light being in vista LONG before it was known about being in tiger. Windows desktop search added to XP (no where near as good but XP file system just can not handle it) before tiger.

Just correcting the facts. Spot light is a stolen idea from windows. Not the other way around.

If we want to start getting fine grained about this stuff, Apple hired Dominic Giampaolo in 2002 to work on Spotlight. He had previosuly written the indexed search capabilities in BeOS in the mid 90s.

 

[Cloudsurfer]

I read parts of his review and confirmed what I thought all along. A website called WINSUPERSITE can never produce an objective review for a Macintosh operating system.

Meanwhile, Leopard is an incremental, evolutionary update over the previous release with no major architectural changes, which makes me wonder why Apple is even charging for it: In the Windows world, such releases are called service packs.

Yeah, except that service packs are usually centered around security fixes and add little new features to make the entire system more productive. Leopard is not a whole new system, but comparing it to a service pack is like comparing cars to airplanes.

 

[ashVID]

Sans some of the commentary, the review is spot on. Apple has rarely been revolutionary. What they have done, is kept an ear to the ground and a focus on streamlined, slick, marketable products and presentation. There is nothing new in Leopard, just some things that have been around elsewhere that are now approachable and slickly presented.

That is not a slam on the OS, just...well... the facts.


ash =o)

 

[jeffgtr]

The author is a microsoft shill. I read where he posts these negative reviews just to get upset mac users to go to his site. Read the review here but don't visit his site. He's just digging for hits, his reviews serve no other purpose.

 

[foidulus]

Downright wrong

In at least on regard:

Instead of just offering Administrator and Standard user account types, however, Apple goes on step further and offers a new account type, Managed with Parental Controls, which is clearly aimed at children.

These accounts have been in OS X since at least 10.3 if I'm not mistaken, I KNOW they are in Tiger(both released before Vista), because we use them with our "children"(ok, 50 year old dudes) at work to make sure they cannot monkey with much. If you are going to claim that someone copied you, at least make sure you were the first one to get it out!

 

[vansouza]

facts

Sans some of the commentary, the review is spot on. Apple has rarely been revolutionary. What they have done, is kept an ear to the ground and a focus on streamlined, slick, marketable products and presentation. There is nothing new in Leopard, just some things that have been around elsewhere that are now approachable and slickly presented.

That is not a slam on the OS, just...well... the facts.


ash =o)

Facts are truths, truths are not subjective; they are objective. His "truths" are subjective, there fore not true.

 

[eenu]

can't stand Paul Thurrot and this is just an example of the usual crap he writes

 

[weaverra]

Another one of his problems is that he claims that he is fair in his reviews. Well if he would put the time and effort into the Leopard review that he did with HIS 8 PART VISTA REVIEW which is about the same length of 17 LEOPARD REVIEWS! Actually if he had to write that much he would have to praise it so much that it would kill Vista. That's why he only wrote what he did. You can always point out the bad in a short review and make the whole product look terrible. I don't care how many stars it gets.

 

[Hobofuzz]

When will people shutup about Apple and Microsoft stealing search technologies from each other?

The first truly user-friendly system to have "instant search" was BeOS.

If anyone is going to say Apple/Microsoft stole instant search from someone, let that someone be Be Inc.