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Snow Leopard Videos Demonstrating Several New Features Surface

Hey quit whining about the past.... Put back was redundant.... its called undo.... but glad its back.

Hey all I want to see is GrandCentral and Open CL actually do something ... actually speed things up. So far there has been no mention of all this speed which Snow Leopard is SUPPOSED to have. So far I have yet to see it working Faster. Actually I'm really surprised at how far Microsoft has come with windows 7. It does have some great new interface features that blow away OS X. So will someone do some benchmarks.... bet they are the same as current the current OS...
 
MikhailT said:
I wonder if there's anything else that they neglected to put in OS X? It would be interesting to go back to history of Mac and see if there are any more useful things that could be used in OS X.
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Finder windows remembering their size/position/settings ;)

Seriously, I preferred some aspects of the OS9 Finder.
 
I wasn't sure if this is the place to ask, but will Quicktime 10 allow users to save/export Quicktime movies without having to pay extra to upgrade to the 'full' version? If so, is there any chance that Quicktime 10 will be offered for free for previous versions of OSX as well?

With that aside, unless there are some serious optimizations and speed improvements in Snow Leopard, (going from Leopard) I'd have little reason to warrant upgrading anytime soon.
 
MikhailT said:
I wonder if there's anything else that they neglected to put in OS X? It would be interesting to go back to history of Mac and see if there are any more useful things that could be used in OS X.
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Didn't you use Mac OS 9? There was a lot of things they left out in 10.0 when it was released. 99% of them have made their way back into OS X though over the period of time since the first version of OS X. 10.0.0 was incapable of DVD viewing, or any kind of CD burning. They added Audio CD burning frameworks to iTunes to let users of 10.0.2 burn music, but you couldn't burn a Data CD til 10.1. OS 9 could do all these things.
 
slackpacker said:
Hey quit whining about the past.... Put back was redundant.... its called undo.... but glad its back.

Hey all I want to see is GrandCentral and Open CL actually do something ... actually speed things up. So far there has been no mention of all this speed which Snow Leopard is SUPPOSED to have. So far I have yet to see it working Faster. Actually I'm really surprised at how far Microsoft has come with windows 7. It does have some great new interface features that blow away OS X. So will someone do some benchmarks.... bet they are the same as current the current OS...
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Apps will only be faster if they make use of the new technologies in Snow Leopard, such as Grand Central. SL isn't a packet of Magic Beans that will just make everything faster.

As for Windows 7 - who cares?
 
willdenow said:
@Martinez

>I would really like to see changes to Finder and its proxy in open/save >dialogs. Vista's file browser is imo miles ahead, with:
>a) a sensible default window size;
>b) built-in 'get info' information at the bottom, and with a lot more detail;
>c) tile view (really the only decent option in Vista);
>d) better by type sorting with folders always at the top; ... and more.


... You can also insure that folders are always at the top by inserting a blank space at the beginning of the folder name. In fact, you can even sort folders into groups by adding additional spaces, i.e. a label that starts with two spaces will precede a folder title with one space which will come out above all folder titles beginning with a letter...
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Hhm, this might work. However, I just not feel comfortable to rename my existing file-hierarchy, something that has grown over the last 17 years and that has followed me over different system platforms...

It would be preferable, though, to have this function without having to "hand code" folder behavior.
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One would think so. It is 2009 and letting people customize their preferences seems to be well practised in other parts of the computing universe...

Unfortunately, the new and improved Finder, and new GUI, has not made it into any of the developer releases yet, so we'll have to wait and see. What I can say is that the Finder in the releases so far is much snappier, which is probably due to all the other refinements under the hood.
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This is sad to know :(
 
inkswamp said:
Agreed! Quicklook is brilliant and I use it constantly. I suppose you have to be in a line of work where you need quick access to lots of documents of various types to see the true usefulness of it. I love that I can hit the space bar and move through a folder full of documents and get near-instant views of the contents without opening a single application.
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I totally agree. I am, and it saves a LOT of time to not have to launch applications to view the simplest items. Even cooler, download third party plug-ins and all of a sudden you're quick-looking at code fully formatted/colored, DICOM documents, illustrator/photoshop files, and some other file types on top of the usual productivity documents. Particularly when you have a bunch of pdfs downloaded with cryptic names all on the same subject, where spotlight can't help.
 
MikhailT said:
Put back is often only useful as long as there's files in the trash bin but how long do people keep the files in the trash? I often secure delete my files daily.
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Fully agree! I can count on my left testicle the number of times I've sifted through the garbage for a trashed file.

Half the posts in this thread are praising this "Put Back" feature as though Jobs himself is writing the code for it.

It really ain't no big deal folks. It's the "retooling" under the OX hood that's appealing.

And personally, I'm glad they aren't throwing more fluff and eye candy at this update.
 
ravenvii said:
It has always been there in Leopard. You can assign apps to spaces within the Spaces/Expose preferences pane in System Preferences.
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Lol, okay. I thought I was going crazy... I know I have assigned apps to their own spaces before. I guess it is just "On-the-fly" now.

As for the movie trimming in Quicktime 10, I am pretty sure that that is already a feature in the current installment as well... I don't see what is new about it-- other than it seems you now have the option to disable it. haha. Hmmm, guess this really is an incremental update. >.>

I will have to see what else they announce for it before I pass judgment I guess. haha.
 
teme said:
I wonder how they are going to sell Snow Leopard to masses if it doesn't include major new features. I think for most users "improved performance" isn't worth the price tag.
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it will probably get mostly the relatively few people that are still running tiger, since many apps are leopard only and that's going to be many more once 10.6 is up, as i bet apple and others will drop support for anything older than 10.5.

i don't need leopard to upgrade to snow leopard, right? just making sure, as i hear a bunch of comments here and elsewhere that it's a service pack basically. if it was that, then the price couldn't be $129.
 
furcalchick said:
i don't need leopard to upgrade to snow leopard, right? just making sure, as i hear a bunch of comments here and elsewhere that it's a service pack basically.
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No, you won't need leopard in order to upgrade to snow leopard. The people who are making those "service pack" comments are saying that as a disparaging remark about the lack of promised features. They are not trying to imply that leopard is a prerequisite.
 
Leopard was my first experience of OSX and the absence of the "put back" feature always baffled me. I believe it was in Tiger wasn't it?
 
yegon said:
Leopard was my first experience of OSX and the absence of the "put back" feature always baffled me. I believe it was in Tiger wasn't it?
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No. If you're coming from OS 9 or other classic Mac OS, you may remember the "Put Away" function. With that, files that had been dragged to the desktop from a folder could be returned automatically to their original folder. IMO that was a lot more useful than this "Put Back" that operates on the Trash folder. I can't remember the last time I accidently put anything in the trash.
 
Eric S. said:
No. If you're coming from OS 9 or other classic Mac OS, you may remember the "Put Away" function. With that, files that had been dragged to the desktop from a folder could be returned automatically to their original folder. IMO that was a lot more useful than this "Put Back" that operates on the Trash folder. I can't remember the last time I accidently put anything in the trash.
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Aah right. I meant to say Leopard was my very first mac experience of any kind. My point of reference would be restore to original location in Windows recycle bin.

Best thing I ever did making the switch, the only thing that traditionally kept me tied to pc's was gaming. A couple of years ago I realised I no longer played PC games, being strictly a 360/PS3/Wii boyo, so thought why not try a mac? The wifey now has my old MB, i have the delightful UMBP :)
 
sadatkarim said:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/96085/SL.zip
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That would be four videos about Snow Leopard, btw, if anyone was wondering. And there virus free :p


So is the new QuickTime an example of what the 'Marble' interface is going to look like?
I'm not sure how keen I'd be on that if it is, it'd look pretty dark over the whole system? And not exactly graphically impressive, like Vista's/7's translucent windows, not that I like them.
 
Does anyone have the other videos on LeopardOctober's account (which the user pulled)? I only downloaded the 4 linked to on MacRumors.
 
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