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Snow Leopard Build 10A286 Seeded to Developers

Quicktime X playing back the Wolverine trailer... When you move your mouse over the video these nice buttons get faded in...

It looks ok but I also think they could have polished it a bit more...


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hachre said:
Quicktime X playing back the Wolverine trailer... When you move your mouse over the video these nice buttons get faded in...

It looks ok but I also think they could have polished it a bit more...


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Hopefully it gets a bit more polished before the final release. Looks a bit "Windows XP".
 
jetlife2 said:
Quote: It is not the same thing as having another hardware thread in your CPU complex.

I thought the point of Open CL was just that, for the OS to use GPU capacity transparently in a way that has not been done before, without relying on the app developers to remember to call on that power. Can you elaborate?
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I was just under the impression that it was supposed to make it much easier to call on it.
 
I truly hope the interface doesn't have more of the 'black' style QuickLook interface..
I really don't like it for anything more than QuickLook. It looks cheap.
 
FYI...

Safari 4 Public Beta = default 64 bits in 10A286 (okay nothing new regarding Snow Leopard dev builds), BUT Flash is working in Youtube (in 64 bits mode) :)

EDIT... screenhots in JPEG sucked..!
 

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Hm.. if there's any difference in the titlebar/buttons, I can't see it.
Disappointment.
Unless it's not going to be released until last minute like Leopard.
 
danny_w said:
As has been said before it is against the NDA and Apple policy. If MR posted that they could get a C&D order from Apple pronto. Don't even ask.
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We don't need to ask. The General is posting it when he gets home from work. He already described exactly what it looks like.
 
Eminemdrdre00 said:
We don't need to ask. The General is posting it when he gets home from work. He already described exactly what it looks like.
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If "The General" does post pics of QTX he will get busted by the commander in chief.;)

Posting some stuff I can see. But posting pics of anything new in SL is asking for legal to come down on MR.
 
I hope that the QuickTime engineers listen to a lot of the postings at the Apple discussions regarding QuickTime Pro features. For as long as I have used QuickTime Pro to record video files using the built in iSight camera, I have found it to be buggy, and to reproducibly crash on any number of Macs even with fresh installs. The cache files are not recoverable either (although they are on the hard disk and I have learned how to find them despite being told by AppleCare and a Quicktime engineer that they disappear).

Basically to reproduce the crash, open QuickTime Pro on any Mac with an iSight, record video, and in doing so over a long enough period of time, it will crash. And I'm not saying to record non-stop, just recording on a normal basis, during a recording it will eventually crash. I have sent lots of logs to Apple over the years, and it seems they have been content to let the bugginess slide.
 
nah, NDA isnt Law.

if you got this build without having to agree with NDA (for example , friend gave it to you), then nothing stops you from posting a screenshot.(just dont tell friend's name)
 
BornAgainMac said:
ZFS will probably be in 10.7. In a perfect world, Microsoft would ship Windows 7 with ZFS as the default file system and Apple would use ZFS and no more problems with sharing portable drives without having to use the limiting FAT32 filesystem. It would be nice if ZFS has no issues and easy to including with any operating system. Because it wasn't included with Leopard makes me feel like it has issues.
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I think you can use ZFS with leopard through third party programs. And ZFS is coming on SL Server as default. Don't know about client yet.
 
netkas said:
nah, NDA isnt Law.

if you got this build without having to agree with NDA (for example , friend gave it to you), then nothing stops you from posting a screenshot.
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I'm not talking about NDA. I'm talking about MacRumors legal responsibilities.

It happened about 3 weeks ago and will happen again. you can count on it.
 
Peace said:
I'm not talking about NDA. I'm talking about MacRumors legal responsibilities.

It happened about 3 weeks ago and will happen again. you can count on it.
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there is exists a lot of image hosting services over network, why to use macrumor's attachements :cool:
 
iMacmatician said:
But… but… there are SECRET INTERNAL BUILDS!

:p
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I wouldn't say the internal builds are /secret/, but I wouldn't believe that what the seed devs get is the same build they are chugging on the same day. I'd expect about a 1-2 week lag between selecting a build to get seeded, and it becoming available.

That said, I wouldn't expect a ton of stuff getting fixed in a 1-2 week period. The known issues in the list is just the 'big stuff' in the build. They do have a much longer list that includes a bunch of little stuff they didn't think would cause devs grief, and it takes awhile to burn through both.
 
Where do you guys get this stuff?

And so quickly? Does Apple have a special deal with MacRumors that says the NDA doesn't apply to you? I found this article before I found my Seed notice!

Wow!
 
wizard said:
All of the above is entirely true. However the original poster has a point even if not well stated. In a nut shell the all of Apples consumer level machines are less than optimal for running SL. That due to the the number of cores implemented. SL can't leverage hardware threads that are not there.

So we have a siituation where Apple's mass market machines are short on cores and where it currently looks like Apple is waiting for an i7 derived processor to move to quad cores. If that is in fact the case the PERFORMANCE difference between an i7 based Mac and the older dual cores could be vast. It is a case of how well everything comes together but the jump from two threads to eight should significantly impact many apps as will other improvements in i7.

While I dnt see i7 as being mandatory any time soon, from Apples standpoint, I do see people being at a huge disadvantage in the near future with out more than two cores available. While not advertised that way I can see many apps needing i7 for all practical purposes. Apple could change this opinion by releasing quad cores in the higher end iMacs but frankly it is already to late. If they wait another 6 months for an update to the iMac there will be all sorts of i7 derived hardware on the market and the updated iMacs would look even poorer than they do now. Apple could try to market quad core Penryn derived processors in the iMac or something similar but I'm not to sure their customer base is that gullible.

What is obvious is that the new iMacs won't see a huge advantage when SL is installed on them. They might be able to leverage a bit of GPU acceleration, on apps that are written for that but a broad spectrum of apps will see very little. It is just really sad that Apple can't seem to get hardware out the door that can leverage future OS upgrades.


Dave
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I'm not sure what huge means, but without breaching an NDA let me assure you, SL runs better than L on a Core2Duo MBP. You know, I've heard. From someone. You've probably seen my longer reply on why many machines benefit from SL. The absence of the future tense is not an accident.
 
BobbyCat said:
Anybody knows what comes after Snow Leopard? We're soon through with all the big cats; is that going to be a problem? Or maybe we'll see a bunch of birds for the next OS? Is Apple running out of ideas as Steve slowly steps out for good? More important, it seems there will only be bug fixes from now on, and no more desktop revolutions to expect. Is the future as sad as it looks like? :confused:
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I believe Snow Leopard is Apple preparing OS-X for the next 5-6 years of revolution. There are a lot of foundations being dug here, don't be sad.

Insert new cat, and try again.
 
MacRumors said:
Apple has seeded a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, termed Build 10A286, to developers. World of Apple republishes the seed notes, which highlight three significant changes in the new build: a new QuickTime user interface, Cocoa-based Finder features, and Safari 4 beta as the default browser.World of Apple also notes that developers are being encouraged to run the new build in 64-bit mode, signaling a "major shift" in that direction.
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when can i see some screenshots of the new quicktime user interface?

Si
 
BobbyCat said:
Anybody knows what comes after Snow Leopard? We're soon through with all the big cats; is that going to be a problem?
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Well, according to Wikipedia, Apple has already registered "Lynx" and "Cougar" as trademarks.

More important, it seems there will only be bug fixes from now on, and no more desktop revolutions to expect. Is the future as sad as it looks like? :confused:
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Huh? Why should the pace of innovation slow any in the future? I expect the desktop may evolve at a faster rate than it has over the past eight years.
 
hachre said:
Quicktime X playing back the Wolverine trailer... When you move your mouse over the video these nice buttons get faded in...

It looks ok but I also think they could have polished it a bit more...


leopard.jpg
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This is clearly fake. Apple never use that shade of blue for buttons. I've looked at it in photoshop and I've noticed that the image is not from the trailer for Wolverine. It's spliced together from bits of other things.

Oh hang on. That IS the trailer for Wolverine.
 
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