I've been using it for a couple of years supporting 300+ enterprise users. I'm sure it's fine and dandy for handling your personal account at home, but with Exchange it blows.
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Schiller to Demo Snow Leopard at Macworld?
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I've been using it for a couple of years supporting 300+ enterprise users. I'm sure it's fine and dandy for handling your personal account at home, but with Exchange it blows.
New MBP glossy screens?
The 17" has been mysteriously missing in the lineup since the launch of the aluminums.
I wish Jony Ive to open Keynote then but NO SHILLER. It will be a disgrace if the first face of apple is that "Ballmer" (oh my, not even their bodies are the same but even the names - Ballmer = Shiller)
Vote for Jony Ive. He has a passion and a sense.
Sure. Johnathon Ive may have passion, passion for design, but the man is an extreme introvert. He couldn't deliver a keynote.
I think people are greatly underestimating Phil's abilities. He is lively and funny, and that helps him get the point across with some energy. He's no maniacal Steve Ballmer.
XSlimer is terrible - it screws up applications, updaters can't find the application to update - all hell breaks lose. If you're so desperate for space you need to resort to that sort of trickery - then you need to upgrade your hard disk. The penalty in terms of reliability issues are not out weighed by the extra space obtained.
You can do that already. Using the connect to server and/or go to folder function in the go menu of the finder menu.
Btw, drive letters suck - the ugly thing die.
I hardly think it is Apple's fault that you were too lazy to do your homework - it was pretty damn comprehensively covered on Arstechnica over the nature of 64bitness http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/4 :
You chose to sit back and ignore all the information - and now you're blaming Apple for your ignorance. Please tell me again, why should I - in the slightest bit care about the fact that you kept yourself wilfully ignorant to the nature of 10.4?
I couldn't agree more! It's amazing to me how easy it is to show another Windows user where something exists on a network and how friggin' difficult it is to do the same for Mac users. With Windows users, you just email them the network path, they click it in their email, a window pops up with that location and you're done. It's one area where Windows gets the ease-of-use thing dead-on right and Macs have no equivalent to it.
I've been using Macs for over 15 years and I get so @#$%&* fed up with this attitude that Macs always have an equivalent way of doing something that Windows does.
No, what you describe is not even close to what we're talking about. You can't paste an entire path (along with a server) in that dialog. Furthermore, it's not even remotely intuitive for a user to do. It's just not even the same. It's about 10 more steps and 1/10 as intuitive. Make no mistake--the Mac sucks in this regard and Windows gets it right.
Gee, guess what? You can email a Windows user a network location substituting the drive letter with the server name and it works too. Like this...
\\ServerNameHere\ProjectFolder\Graphics\PSD\Framework
No need for letter mappings at all. And again, the Mac can't do that.
And you can write off Windows-style drive mapping all you want, but that is a built-in mechanism for dealing with network disconnects that the Mac doesn't have. When the Mac loses its network share connections, it just disappears completely and you have to go through the whole process of reconnecting all over again. And that's why a lot of network admins still consider Macs to be unreliable. And guess why they think that? Because Macs are unreliable in that situation.
Consider the situation where both platforms have lost connection to a share and each has a program that runs that needs to access files on that share--maybe some kind of data shuffling program that is critical to your business. If you're running the program that needs to access the share mapped to the H drive, Windows automatically reconnects. The drive mapping acts as a placeholder, even for dead connections and will try to reconnect automatically when accessed. That's beautiful and the way it should work (and ironically, it's more Mac-like in that respect than the Mac.)
On the Mac... well, you're crap out of luck. You know, unless you're really into writing shell scripts and running one in cron or launchd to keep you connected--and god knows that has that ease-of-use/it-just-works Mac way of doing things stamped all over it, doesn't it?
Aagh! It's Jonathan. What a particularly wrong and horrible version of Jonathan your spelling is.
Sorry - I can't help myself.
Snow Leopard is all about the developers. Why show it at Macworld, which is for consumers? There better be some really impressive figures.
I'd also prefer Snow Leopard stay in incubation until WWDC. Perhaps do an open beta. Apple's taking this time to make sure that under the hood, OSX has the technologies to take advantage of better hardware. I'd really like it if they could take as much time making sure that everyday bugs are fixed.
Besides, I doubt Apple could have rewritten all their drivers already. If they don't support Black Macbooks on this system, I'm really going to be very angry indeed.
I'd also prefer Snow Leopard stay in incubation until WWDC. Perhaps do an open beta. Apple's taking this time to make sure that under the hood, OSX has the technologies to take advantage of better hardware. I'd really like it if they could take as much time making sure that everyday bugs are fixed.
Besides, I doubt Apple could have rewritten all their drivers already. If they don't support Black Macbooks on this system, I'm really going to be very angry indeed.
Snow Leopard eeds to have killer features to succeed
having recently been bored while on call i watched all of the recent Keynotes again and was struck by how much emphasis SJ puts on the percentage of users using the current OS. He shows pie charts of users using different versions Tiger Leopard etc and he always seems to say that it is a benefit to the company unlike MS to have people on latest so they dont need to support legacy OS and produce multiple versions of everything. Now this seems to be at odds with the Snow Leopard story where there isnt going to be anything other than speed enhancements for multiple core users. What is going to happen is older users arent going to upgrade OS until they upgrade hardware and in a recession its unlikely they will do that just for a new OS with no new features. My hunch is snow leopard will either be cheap or free or will include killer apps to get people to want to switch to it otherwise it may be a failure. Im a 07 imac owner cant see any reason to upgrade to snow leopard - my mac is running smoothly and reasonably quickly i want bug fixes - yes i would like a new faster one but that goes without saying. If i was going to spend 100 quid i would spend it on memory or a backup hard disk not half a second faster lauch of mail app.??
having recently been bored while on call i watched all of the recent Keynotes again and was struck by how much emphasis SJ puts on the percentage of users using the current OS. He shows pie charts of users using different versions Tiger Leopard etc and he always seems to say that it is a benefit to the company unlike MS to have people on latest so they dont need to support legacy OS and produce multiple versions of everything. Now this seems to be at odds with the Snow Leopard story where there isnt going to be anything other than speed enhancements for multiple core users. What is going to happen is older users arent going to upgrade OS until they upgrade hardware and in a recession its unlikely they will do that just for a new OS with no new features. My hunch is snow leopard will either be cheap or free or will include killer apps to get people to want to switch to it otherwise it may be a failure. Im a 07 imac owner cant see any reason to upgrade to snow leopard - my mac is running smoothly and reasonably quickly i want bug fixes - yes i would like a new faster one but that goes without saying. If i was going to spend 100 quid i would spend it on memory or a backup hard disk not half a second faster lauch of mail app.??
You say lower your expectations. You should lower yours. Points 3 and 4 wont happen, point 5 is the same as point 2, and one more thing has been out of fashion for some time.
Then don't buy it? Some folks think Apple actually spending the time to make OS X faster and more secure is better R&D time spent then a 3D dock and transparent menubar.
He can't even deliver a single sentence without a pathetically over dramatic pause
in the middle.
Doug
Hear hear! (And a better explanation than me earlier, resulting in some Kool Aid kid branding me a heretic)
Sorry but read what i wrote. SJ is the one that likes everyone on the same version of the OS for good ecomonmic reasons, it is a lot less hassle to maintain and support one or two versions of OS than five. Apple is a business and wants to make a profit - it wont do something that increases its costs unless there is likely to be a bigger rise in income. witness the whole Vista nightmare. I entirely agree i would like a faster more secure less buggy system but isnt that what the point increments are about? Or do you think this is a clever way of getting us to pay for fixing things? so no more point increments pay for bug fixes? Again I still think it points towards a cheap or free upgrade OR killer apps. They will only spend time on R&D rather than docks if it sells more. Multicore support isnt going to get hundreds of new customers. Exchange support might as it opens up market to business who currently arent interested in Apple but then you are into the Vista home business senario and i dont see it they like one version. Snow leopard may be free or cheap to cover distribution and marketing costs and appeals to business big time who start to buy loads.
predicting what may be released at Macworld
i have started to wonder if the apple TV, time capsule and mac mini might morph into one?
i recently tried to convince myself to buy an apple TV for xmas but without any PVR facilities or access to the BBC iplayer its not worth it (have you watched iplayer on iphone its amazing BTW)
i recently tried to convince myself to buy a time capsule but as i have 5 AirportExpresses and every hifi in the house linked up cant see the advantage of one over a cheaper NAS device connected to my switch unless it can stream iTunes which it cant.
i wondered about a mac mini as a home media server and almost bid on one from ebay yesterday but now my idea is what if they combine them at Macworld? make the mac mini and apple tv into one a apple tv3?. i can then watch iplayer and surf the net and watch dvds on my HDTV as well as access iTunes store for movie rentals etc. It could have PVR functions and stream music to the house. If it had a big enough hard disk it could act as a time capsule as well as a PVR. looking at the earlier posts on how much cut down some of the snow leopard file sizes are this would benefit it as it wouldnt want to waste disk space on OS - multicore support might also allow it to use a low power cpu more effectively for video etc and be less of a power hog. the recent improvements in gaming performace to 10.5.6 might even suggest a move towards a Xbox 360 or PS3 type online live gaming experience which might build on all the good relations Apple have been having with games companies recently? i'd buy one tomorrow.
(if you are reading Apple I am available for consultancy work)
i have started to wonder if the apple TV, time capsule and mac mini might morph into one?
i recently tried to convince myself to buy an apple TV for xmas but without any PVR facilities or access to the BBC iplayer its not worth it (have you watched iplayer on iphone its amazing BTW)
i recently tried to convince myself to buy a time capsule but as i have 5 AirportExpresses and every hifi in the house linked up cant see the advantage of one over a cheaper NAS device connected to my switch unless it can stream iTunes which it cant.
i wondered about a mac mini as a home media server and almost bid on one from ebay yesterday but now my idea is what if they combine them at Macworld? make the mac mini and apple tv into one a apple tv3?. i can then watch iplayer and surf the net and watch dvds on my HDTV as well as access iTunes store for movie rentals etc. It could have PVR functions and stream music to the house. If it had a big enough hard disk it could act as a time capsule as well as a PVR. looking at the earlier posts on how much cut down some of the snow leopard file sizes are this would benefit it as it wouldnt want to waste disk space on OS - multicore support might also allow it to use a low power cpu more effectively for video etc and be less of a power hog. the recent improvements in gaming performace to 10.5.6 might even suggest a move towards a Xbox 360 or PS3 type online live gaming experience which might build on all the good relations Apple have been having with games companies recently? i'd buy one tomorrow.
(if you are reading Apple I am available for consultancy work
)