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Screenshots of Latest Snow Leopard Seed
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Not only that, but touchscreen PCs are expensive, hard to come by, and don't always work. It baffles me why Windows 7 (especially) and OS X Snow Leopard would be focusing on touchscreen features.
Touchscreens are good for some things, but the UI of the general 'keyboard' computer isn't one of them.
I used a Touchscreen based DOS PC for a couple of years waaaaay back in the day, and pretty much the reason that I left PC-land was because of the poor UI of Touch-Screens. I found that going from an HP-150 to a Mac Plus was a big step up.
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Sort by Type. Boom. Folders might not be first, but they're grouped. Folders first is a useless Windows thing.
PathFinder does it too and I find it quite useful (except in my Applications folder, does anyone by chance know how to turn the behavior off for one folder?)
To you maybe, but not to everybody. Why can't we at least have the option? Oh, I forgot, Apple is the antithesis of options.
Because downloading, installing, and running developer seeds of OS X builds is governed by a user agreement which specifically states that no part of it, including screenshots, may be publicly shared. Macrumors has probably no interest in getting involved in a (likely fruitless) legal battle with Apple over this, so if Apple asks, they remove such leaked information.
It may have something to do with 64-bit coding, but ultimately it is a non-issue. The lowest amount of RAM that ships with a (modern, i.e. not the Mini) Mac is 2GB. And that number will only increase as prices drop and capacities increase on memory. Heck, you can get a new Dell XPS with 24GB of RAM, and the option is only $1500 (to put in context, ~20GB of RAM in the Mac Pro a year ago costed at least $10,000). In other words, so what if the new applications take up a few more MB of RAM (if those footprints are indeed accurate in the final build). With more and more RAM possible in the VERY near future, like I said, it becomes a non-issue.
And if anyone tries to come back and say "what about older Macs, they can't support lot's of RAM, meaning SL would run slow on them..." Well, I say to you, since when has Apple cared about keeping you using your old machine? Either stick with plain old Leopard or buy a new Mac, that is more or less Apple's MO.
What on earth for? Every monitor that I know of take 60Hz, maybe as low as 50 or as high as 70... Please, enlighten me, what is 24Hz useful for?
consequently, the one who submitted the screenshots to macrumors made himself guilty by ignoring user agreements and therfor could be sued?
And besides: IF the "mac mini video" was the real mac mini, wouldn't have apple asked to remove it aswell?
AFAIK movies (at least HD movies) are natively shot at 24Hz. Having a monitor/tv that supports a multiple of that allows you to not need 3:2 pulldown. So scenes that pan don't cause people like me to want to throwup(due to the judder)....
AFAIK movies (at least HD movies) are natively shot at 24Hz. Having a monitor/tv that supports a multiple of that allows you to not need 3:2 pulldown. So scenes that pan don't cause people like me to want to throwup(due to the judder)....
ah ha. Thought the 24 number would have something to do with videos.
Still, my question remains, how many monitors are capable of that? Every one I have seen goes black when you take it out of the 50-70 Hz range... Is this something you need specialized (videophile
) equipment for?ah ha. Thought the 24 number would have something to do with videos.
Still, my question remains, how many monitors are capable of that? Every one I have seen goes black when you take it out of the 50-70 Hz range... Is this something you need specialized (videophile
If the monitor/tv supports 120hz 3:2 pulldown isn't needed (from my understanding). Notice how 120hz is the new hotness in LCDs?
Can someone try the screen scaling features in Snow Leopard?
Put this in to the terminal:
defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor .8
Next, log out and log back in. Open all of your regular programs. Safari, Adium, iChat, Mail, Finder, etc.. How does everything look? When you do that with Leopard it creates some nasty visual glitches, but I would like to know how the resolution independence works in Snow Leopard.
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When you are done, you can go to regular settings by putting the following into terminal:
defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1
Put this in to the terminal:
defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor .8
Next, log out and log back in. Open all of your regular programs. Safari, Adium, iChat, Mail, Finder, etc.. How does everything look? When you do that with Leopard it creates some nasty visual glitches, but I would like to know how the resolution independence works in Snow Leopard.
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When you are done, you can go to regular settings by putting the following into terminal:
defaults write -g AppleDisplayScaleFactor 1
It's hardly useless because you don't find it useful. I much prefer having all my folders sorted first and then the other documents.
One of the reasons I use ForkLift is because it sorts things just as I want them.
Snow Leopard Books on Amazon
Sorry if someone has pointed this out previously... but on Amazon there are a bunch of Snow Leopard related titles which are due for release from mid-June onwards.
e.g. Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Learn Series) by Scott Meyers and Mike Lee (Paperback - Jun 15, 2009)
Looks like a June release date may be on the cards... any other thoughts. Also - I'm wondering if I should shell out for a new iMac released today - do you think it will include a free upgrade to Snow Leopard? I played with a 2.66 GHz 24" (4GB) model this afternoon in the Sydney store. It seemed to be pretty responsive - shame about the price in Oz.
Sorry if someone has pointed this out previously... but on Amazon there are a bunch of Snow Leopard related titles which are due for release from mid-June onwards.
e.g. Learn Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Learn Series) by Scott Meyers and Mike Lee (Paperback - Jun 15, 2009)
Looks like a June release date may be on the cards... any other thoughts. Also - I'm wondering if I should shell out for a new iMac released today - do you think it will include a free upgrade to Snow Leopard? I played with a 2.66 GHz 24" (4GB) model this afternoon in the Sydney store. It seemed to be pretty responsive - shame about the price in Oz.
Yes, that has been mentioned. June has been the most reasonable speculation all along, but that doesn't mean it might not still be delayed.
I doubt it, unless Snow Leopard arrives sooner than expected. Historically Apple has not given any break when the upgrade is more than 30 days.
Sorting folders first is actually quite useful...if you organize your files with a folder-oriented system of organization (as I'd venture a decent percentage of the computer-using world does).
I'll agree with you on that point. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm not reading too much about it as I'm not one for Hype. I kno wit's not much with Apple, but hype normally = Disappointment.