Umn does that mean "home on ipod" is finally here or am i missing the point?
That would be one surefire way to kill your iPod quickly. The disk in the iPod is not built for constant use like a laptop or desktop disk. It's also too slow.
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That would be one surefire way to kill your iPod quickly. The disk in the iPod is not built for constant use like a laptop or desktop disk. It's also too slow.
Thats a bit harsh...I just resort to making snide comments...
Uhm... I believe he means scroll with the mouse's scroll wheel on Leopard. You can't do that right now.
quovadis
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Support in Textedit of MS Office and O
I second this sentiment!
lazyrighteye
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As others have mentioned, it is often the less-hyped aspects of a new OS I find more impressive than the big headlines on Apple's pages.
Sure, Time Machine sounds revolutionary, no doubt. And things like Spaces, new Finder, etc. - all sound wonderful.
But Sitening's list represent some of the daily, efficiency features I dig.
Working on a Mac 10+ hours a day - these tend to be the things that can make or break an upgrade, for me.
I really like the .Mac sync of Sys Prefs. I sync between 3 Macs, daily. 2 home & 1 work Mac (and an iPhone). The ability to sync Sys Prefs will literally allow for identical setups (use experience) no matter what Mac I am using. Kickass.
Scrolling non-active Windows is nifty. I don't always want to have to select another window to scroll for (say) some info and then reselect the original window to implement said info. In know this involves only 2 mouse clicks - but still... multiplied over the amount of tie I am on a mac and seemingly little things like this can become big over time. So this appears a welcome, if not small, adjustment.
Font auto-activation sounds promising - tho I am curious how this will actually work.
Wiki in Dictionary guess I can remove that Bookmark from Safari.
Overall, Leopard seems a much more substantial upgrade than Tiger was from Panther. Almost as substantial as OS X was to OS 9!
As long as imperative apps like Office 2004 (wife depends heavily on this) and CS2 still work, I will be upgrading almost immediately.
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Sure, Time Machine sounds revolutionary, no doubt. And things like Spaces, new Finder, etc. - all sound wonderful.
But Sitening's list represent some of the daily, efficiency features I dig.
Working on a Mac 10+ hours a day - these tend to be the things that can make or break an upgrade, for me.
I really like the .Mac sync of Sys Prefs. I sync between 3 Macs, daily. 2 home & 1 work Mac (and an iPhone). The ability to sync Sys Prefs will literally allow for identical setups (use experience) no matter what Mac I am using. Kickass.
Scrolling non-active Windows is nifty. I don't always want to have to select another window to scroll for (say) some info and then reselect the original window to implement said info. In know this involves only 2 mouse clicks - but still... multiplied over the amount of tie I am on a mac and seemingly little things like this can become big over time. So this appears a welcome, if not small, adjustment.
Font auto-activation sounds promising - tho I am curious how this will actually work.
Wiki in Dictionary guess I can remove that Bookmark from Safari.
Overall, Leopard seems a much more substantial upgrade than Tiger was from Panther. Almost as substantial as OS X was to OS 9!
As long as imperative apps like Office 2004 (wife depends heavily on this) and CS2 still work, I will be upgrading almost immediately.
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Preclaro_tipo
macrumors regular
AutoFS
I could not agree more with your giant teeth showing smilie icon.
I have multiple shared volumes that i access regularly. (about 4) I mount them putting a shared folder (a folder enclosed in the shared volume) shortcut in the left panel of the Finder. So i click on the folders to mount the shared volumes several of which are on windows machines and one is a network drive (NAS).
I do this daily and get pushed to near rage when I have to stop what I am doing while the volume mounts. I hate seeing that spinning beach ball...and that is the good days. on the days when, say, the NAS device is off or the shared windows volume is not accessible (machine shut down) my entire computer is locked up while the finder looks for the volume indefinitely. I have to force quit finder...that process puts me near blinding rage.
Not having the system hang for even a few seconds for a mounting activity like this is usually the difference between a "slow feeling" system and one the "feels responsive" (and all those other qualitative feelings that an OS creates).
Not to make a big stupid statement, but, here it goes, I would pay $65 for AutoFS only!! 299 features for another $65...not bad from my perspective.
AutoFS.
I could not agree more with your giant teeth showing smilie icon.
I have multiple shared volumes that i access regularly. (about 4) I mount them putting a shared folder (a folder enclosed in the shared volume) shortcut in the left panel of the Finder. So i click on the folders to mount the shared volumes several of which are on windows machines and one is a network drive (NAS).
I do this daily and get pushed to near rage when I have to stop what I am doing while the volume mounts. I hate seeing that spinning beach ball...and that is the good days. on the days when, say, the NAS device is off or the shared windows volume is not accessible (machine shut down) my entire computer is locked up while the finder looks for the volume indefinitely. I have to force quit finder...that process puts me near blinding rage.
Not having the system hang for even a few seconds for a mounting activity like this is usually the difference between a "slow feeling" system and one the "feels responsive" (and all those other qualitative feelings that an OS creates).
Not to make a big stupid statement, but, here it goes, I would pay $65 for AutoFS only!! 299 features for another $65...not bad from my perspective.
lazyrighteye
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Support in Textedit of MS Office and O
And I'll third this.
nagromme
macrumors G5
One of the more fun features on leopard will be using the new back drops on ichat. Just feel its a shame that there is still no support for msn or yahoo accounts 'out of the box' and people will still be forced to use alternatives like skype etc when conversing with pc users who don't use aim.
Just curious if flash will run smoother in leopard than tiger instead of making my mbp fans spin up to full speed and heat my lap
So many new features though, I think there are going to be features that appeal to everyone in this release. Anyone else want the apple countdown timer as a dashboard widget?
I'm betting a new Flash plugin is coming--made by Adobe with Apple's help--to make it more efficient on Macs AND finally efficient enough to include with iPhone and iPod Touch. Not coming with Leopard, but some time in future.
IIRC the earliest 1.8" HDs were rated for only occasional use, but I don't think that's true any longer. 1.8" HDs are now suitable for laptop use and for long hours. I actually BOOTED and worked from my old 60 GB iPod Photo for over a week once, while home for the holidays. My parents' Mac magically became MY Mac
It worked great and barely got warm. (But with "Home on iPod" you wouldn't have to run the whole OS off the iPod like I did, just your Home files.)
morespce54
macrumors 65816
sunfast
macrumors 68020
I hadn't noticed this (probably being stupid). Could you tell me how?
The new desktop (including Stacks), new Finder, consistent UI, prominent front windows and many more...
nagromme
macrumors G5
There is nothing secret now. The new UI was secret, the new Dock, Stacks, and a handful of other things ("secret" or "not yet ready to show" is moot really). That stuff was revealed earlier this year.
gauchogolfer
macrumors 603
I think that screen sharing directly from Finder is pretty cool, especially if iChat won't be required on both ends.
kneeslasher
macrumors member
I was really looking forward to this (now seemingly nixed) feature.
CmdrLaForge
macrumors 601
I wasn't personally, but it would take down the annoyance level of Boot Camp; I'm always telling my friends to switch, but they don't want to have to restart the whole computer just for a game...
jamesarm97
macrumors 65816
I do this daily and get pushed to near rage when I have to stop what I am doing while the volume mounts. I hate seeing that spinning beach ball...and that is the good days. on the days when, say, the NAS device is off or the shared windows volume is not accessible (machine shut down) my entire computer is locked up while the finder looks for the volume indefinitely. I have to force quit finder...that process puts me near blinding rage.
Not having the system hang for even a few seconds for a mounting activity like this is usually the difference between a "slow feeling" system and one the "feels responsive" (and all those other qualitative feelings that an OS creates).
Not to make a big stupid statement, but, here it goes, I would pay $65 for AutoFS only!! 299 features for another $65...not bad from my perspective.
Amen there. It is really bad when you are connected to a share at home or work, then close the lid and packup. When it wakes from sleep it usually spins for awhile when it is trying to figure out where the share went. I had to force a reboot just lastnight because I was trying to figure out why copying files over the airport extreme share was so slow and I plugged in a network cable and turned off the airport. Got the beachball and could not kill anything.
It can...
I could not agree more. Wikipedia is malware and not a feature,
Consultant
macrumors G5
You need to tell them facts, such as.
- PCs need anti-virus and anti-spyware programs. Installing those programs makes their CPU 10% slower.
- Most spams (as much as 90% last checked) comes from infected windoze machines. If you don't like spam then stop using windoze.
- Windoze machines slow down with installation of each new program, even if the program is not being run. That's due to problems with the windoze registry. With a Mac, no matter how many apps you install, it will not slow down the computer.
- Mac OS can run multiple apps at the same time without slow downs
- Windoze machines slow down over time, as soon as a few months after clean install.
- Running a mac = less time trying to figure out where is the incompatible driver / hardware / software / windoze bug, and actually more time doing things you want to do.
- Laptops running windoze has lower battery life than running OSX.
- Macs can boot multiple operating systems, including OSX which is certified Unix, Windoze XP, Windoze Vista, and Linux.
- Macs has a longer usable life, which is lower cost of ownership. That does not even include saving on support (time or money) if you are running OSX.
- .... and lots more reasons, and the last, and most important one,
- Macs will get you laid. =)
Other obscure but cool features.....
While digging through Apple's complete list of new features posted to their site, I discovered a number of interesting ones related to the "Universal access" portion of Leopard.
One potentially HUGE one for some people has gone totally unmentioned; Leopard is the first OS to support braille output terminals during installation or upgrading. So vision-impaired folks can now install their own OS and understand what's going on during the process!
It's also possible to take a small flash drive and store your Leopard "voiceover" preferences on it - so you can go to any Mac and plug in it, and your personal configuration travels with you. (Since they have a lot of new configuration possible for exactly when and where Leopard will speak/read things to you in the OS, this could be pretty useful too.)
"Hot Spots" is potentially interesting too. In Leopard, it says you can have it "monitor up to 10 areas of the screen, and instantly be alerted to changes in them -- then jump directly to that spot to investigate". Beyond potential usefulness for the handicapped OS X user, I could see this having other creative uses. Say you have multiple displays with a lot of data up on them, like stock quote/tickers. You could let Leopard alert you when something happens in particular areas that you need to keep a close eye on. If this works in conjunction with "Spaces" virtual desktops, even MORE useful - as it could snap you right onto the virtual screen of interest - even if you were busy surfing the net in another screen or something.
While digging through Apple's complete list of new features posted to their site, I discovered a number of interesting ones related to the "Universal access" portion of Leopard.
One potentially HUGE one for some people has gone totally unmentioned; Leopard is the first OS to support braille output terminals during installation or upgrading. So vision-impaired folks can now install their own OS and understand what's going on during the process!
It's also possible to take a small flash drive and store your Leopard "voiceover" preferences on it - so you can go to any Mac and plug in it, and your personal configuration travels with you. (Since they have a lot of new configuration possible for exactly when and where Leopard will speak/read things to you in the OS, this could be pretty useful too.)
"Hot Spots" is potentially interesting too. In Leopard, it says you can have it "monitor up to 10 areas of the screen, and instantly be alerted to changes in them -- then jump directly to that spot to investigate". Beyond potential usefulness for the handicapped OS X user, I could see this having other creative uses. Say you have multiple displays with a lot of data up on them, like stock quote/tickers. You could let Leopard alert you when something happens in particular areas that you need to keep a close eye on. If this works in conjunction with "Spaces" virtual desktops, even MORE useful - as it could snap you right onto the virtual screen of interest - even if you were busy surfing the net in another screen or something.