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Now that you mention it, I think MS should just pull out of ads altogether. All you need to run that company day to day is a cash register. The licensing hog is still the best part of their game. Sure, it stifles innovation, but when a good chunk of your base doesn't know any better to begin with, why bother?
Anyway, I look at those MS ads and I keep wondering who gets paid to think of stupid **** like that. Now if they're this ****ed up when it comes to simple PR, imagine what their products and services are like.
What you are missing is..
....There is now outputs for 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p.
Hopefully this means no more mucking around with DisplayConfigX etc to get a working output (overscan issues etc) for MacMini's etc connected to plasma/lcd tvs !
(lives in hope for my mini connected via dvi-hdmi to a 50" 720p PanaPlasma to ditch the silly 1180ish x 682ish resolution I need to run now)
....There is now outputs for 480p, 720p, 1080i and 1080p.
Hopefully this means no more mucking around with DisplayConfigX etc to get a working output (overscan issues etc) for MacMini's etc connected to plasma/lcd tvs !
(lives in hope for my mini connected via dvi-hdmi to a 50" 720p PanaPlasma to ditch the silly 1180ish x 682ish resolution I need to run now)
According to some other sources, the finder hasn't be worked on yet. Just like the Quicktime, it will be wholely replaced at once in later seeds.
AND understanding it's a developer seed...... Photobooth just crashes... and iPhoto eventually crashes. Apple Mail with Exchange has errors.
I am not bashing. I am just mentioning. I was actually surprised. Usually Apples Dev Builds are top notch. Best in the industry. (Roughly) ESPECIALLY with it being just an "update" of Leopard. But, a dev build is a dev build. Can't expect the world.
NT1440
macrumors P6
While your right about most of that, it isnt just an "update" of leopard, its basically a complete rewrite of leopard.
Not from what I have seen. Yes, it's a lot of rewrite. But, they are even toting it as "builds on Leopards enormous innovations by delivering a new generation of core software technologies that will streamline Mac OS X". Now, I am not an expert. But, when I write a program. Especially one that works well. I don't do a "complete rewrite". Or else it wouldn't be "Leopard" code. It would be "Snow Leopard" code. Right? 🙂 Just asking.
NT1440
macrumors P6
Mail and Address Book
Maybe, I wish, they will make Mail a power program instead of a kludgy slow running cumbersome mess and maybe, I wish, they will improve address book so that it is easier to export the data in it.
Bells and whistle time is up. Time to make the workhorses of the system better than that MS stuff.
Maybe, I wish, they will make Mail a power program instead of a kludgy slow running cumbersome mess and maybe, I wish, they will improve address book so that it is easier to export the data in it.
Bells and whistle time is up. Time to make the workhorses of the system better than that MS stuff.
Not only that, there are things called regressive bugs. Just rewriting parts of the OS would affect the rest of the system to the point where they would have to rewrite those parts too.. I am sure they are not rewriting the whole OS, just enough to be considered a new version.
The new Stacks navigation is the kind of interface I want to touch. As in multi-touch. That and dashboard widgets seem primed for a touch interface. I don't want the entire OS to be multi touch, just some things that seem useful.
Think about it, nearly everything in the Mac product line now features glass displays, the preeminent material for multi touch as demonstrated by the iPhone.
Ever wonder why Apple designed glass displays? It's definitely not easier to manufacture. What is its function (if not to piss off people who hate glossy displays)?
Think about it, nearly everything in the Mac product line now features glass displays, the preeminent material for multi touch as demonstrated by the iPhone.
Ever wonder why Apple designed glass displays? It's definitely not easier to manufacture. What is its function (if not to piss off people who hate glossy displays)?
Eminemdrdre00
macrumors 6502a
While I wouldnt mind a multi-touch interface being there as an option, I dont think I'd ever use it. Heck I dont ever want to "talk" to my computer with voice recognition someday. Im very happy with the keyboard/mouse solution.
I could see that for very limited uses, I still do not think it is worth the extra cost for those very limited use. I could see the trackpad in laptops being replaced with the iphone kind of thing but for desktops, users are not going to constantly use their arms in the air for something. they'll get tired rapidly and they usually stick to one method of controlling their systems.
As for tablets, that might be worth it for sure. but have you seen the costs and the specs? Not worth it for most people.
TuffLuffJimmy
macrumors G3
Why is this news? All of the things in this gallery were detailed on the twelfth. Over a week ago!!!
Hell they even used the same picture for the article.
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/1...sted-tweaks-put-back-stack-folder-navigation/
Hell they even used the same picture for the article.
https://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/1...sted-tweaks-put-back-stack-folder-navigation/
Stridder44
macrumors 68040
skaertus
macrumors 601
Snow Leopard memory usage
After reading this article, I felt a little disappointed on MacOS Snow Leopard. I already knew it wasn't about new features, but about core changes. I wish they could put up some new features, but it's OK to "just" have a speed boost. I also knew the size of the software would be dramatically reduced, and I think this alone is just great news (and even better than another 300+ features).
However, I was hoping to see some news on memory (RAM) usage on MacOS 10.6. I own a MacBook with 2 GB RAM. Memory is something scarce. Right now, MS Word 2008 is using 182 MB, Firefox is using 118 MB and iTunes, 110 MB. A lot, right? I wish Snow Leopard could use memory in a more efficient way. But, when I looked at the picture that showed the activity monitor of MacOS 10.6 and compared it to my own activity monitor (on MacOS 10.5), I felt disappointed. Memory usage seems higher on Snow Leopard. Here's examples of what I found out:
Activity Monitor - uses 17.65 MB on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) and 35.5 MB on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard);
Finder - uses 45.57 MB on Leopard and 66.1 MB on Snow Leopard;
System UI Server - uses 8.91 MB on Leopard and 39.8 MB on Snow Leopard.
MacOS 10.6 seems to use far more memory than MacOS 10.5, although the size of applications was greatly reduced. Why? Is it because of 64-bit? Or am I just missing something?
After reading this article, I felt a little disappointed on MacOS Snow Leopard. I already knew it wasn't about new features, but about core changes. I wish they could put up some new features, but it's OK to "just" have a speed boost. I also knew the size of the software would be dramatically reduced, and I think this alone is just great news (and even better than another 300+ features).
However, I was hoping to see some news on memory (RAM) usage on MacOS 10.6. I own a MacBook with 2 GB RAM. Memory is something scarce. Right now, MS Word 2008 is using 182 MB, Firefox is using 118 MB and iTunes, 110 MB. A lot, right? I wish Snow Leopard could use memory in a more efficient way. But, when I looked at the picture that showed the activity monitor of MacOS 10.6 and compared it to my own activity monitor (on MacOS 10.5), I felt disappointed. Memory usage seems higher on Snow Leopard. Here's examples of what I found out:
Activity Monitor - uses 17.65 MB on MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) and 35.5 MB on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard);
Finder - uses 45.57 MB on Leopard and 66.1 MB on Snow Leopard;
System UI Server - uses 8.91 MB on Leopard and 39.8 MB on Snow Leopard.
MacOS 10.6 seems to use far more memory than MacOS 10.5, although the size of applications was greatly reduced. Why? Is it because of 64-bit? Or am I just missing something?
boring
i have to say that i am a bit disapointed: why is stacks still looking like that? apple once used to be good in inventing a consistant user interface through all their programs, but i get the feeling that they are now stuck in some sort of barrier infront of their head:
- stacks should look similar to the icons-menu on the iphone/touch
- stacks uses a different way of navigation compared to the navigation in the finder. this is confusing.
i have to say that i am a bit disapointed: why is stacks still looking like that? apple once used to be good in inventing a consistant user interface through all their programs, but i get the feeling that they are now stuck in some sort of barrier infront of their head:
- stacks should look similar to the icons-menu on the iphone/touch
- stacks uses a different way of navigation compared to the navigation in the finder. this is confusing.
In some ways, 64bit apps does use more memory than 32bit apps. I don't think you should even think about comparing anything right now, Apple hasn't really start optimizing their code yet. They still have months to go if they intend to release in June.
looks like a lot of progress, I am really interested in the "put away" feature... With the thousands of songs on my itunes sometimes i place wrong songs in the trash and it would be MUCH easier to have a simple button to click to put it exactly where it was...
Nice progress
Progress?? That feature existed in System 9 and I believe it even existed in System 7 too.
Ironduke
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