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Speed of Computer in Leopard Guide Video
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These kind of movies belong in the world of advertising. 
Ofcourse they edit these so that everything looks super great and exceptionally fast.
I bet that someone will make a joke shortly: making a similar movie but showing how bad and slowly everything works in Leopard, you know .... showing how slowly coverflow in the Finder works with WMV-movies, or how Time Machine takes ages to backup your entire internal HD for the first time on a USB 1 - HD.. etc.
Ofcourse they edit these so that everything looks super great and exceptionally fast.
I bet that someone will make a joke shortly: making a similar movie but showing how bad and slowly everything works in Leopard, you know .... showing how slowly coverflow in the Finder works with WMV-movies, or how Time Machine takes ages to backup your entire internal HD for the first time on a USB 1 - HD.. etc.
Well guys, having used the Leopard Betas on my White iMac 2,33Ghz with 3GB RAM, I can tell you that the speed increase over Tiger is dramatic. I don't think Apple edited the video. It works exactly so fast on my iMac!!!
Fair play (Y)
I hope that you're correct and it ISN'T edited.
Although I think that it might well be
As long as it's quicker than XP Im happy
Let's put it this way:
- Nike shoes make you run faster...
- Using an iPod makes you look like a silhouette...
- Using Gillette's MACH 3 Turbo razors make you a real sporting hero...
- Leopard launches Safari 3 times faster....
Do a clean install of Tiger and Leopard on the same iMac 24" 2.8 GHz with 4 GB RAM.
You will not notice much difference in launch time of apps. Might be a little better (on an Intel Mac, that is...) but not as great as this movie lets you believe.
Leopard is a 64bit system and thats the biggest feature it has! It really takes advantage of our Core 2 Duos and Xeon Processors! (for those that have them!)
Many libraries have been written from scratch to support multiple cores and that shows!
Opening iCal or Mail is instantaneous!
Many libraries have been written from scratch to support multiple cores and that shows!
Opening iCal or Mail is instantaneous!
G5's are full 64 bits CPU.
iCal or Mail or Safari or any iLife app..... are not 64 bits.
Mail and Safari in Tiger are multithreaded too.
The only thing I can think of which *could* make Leopard launch apps a little faster than Tiger on the same Intel-based Mac, is that the Intel binaries are optimised more than that was the case with Tiger.
Don't get overexcited.
Are you just now noticing the instantaneous speeds of all Apple products on their advertisements?
Go back and watch all other videos for the iphone, ipodTouch etc., etc., and you'll see that everything is lightning fast.
As others have pointed out its edited, and it called advertising-make it look faster than what they have now and people will want it.
After watching the guided tour video, I was really excited about the new features of iChat. My question is, will sharing files through iChat really work as well as they show? Sharing a presentation or photo slideshow over iChat will be great if it really works as smooth and fast as they show on the video tutorial.
What do you think?
What do you think?
If the iChat AV connection with your pal goes over a >10 Mb network connection, sure it'll work that great!
You can be sure that when Apple were recording that, they used a 802.11n Airport Extreme with both Macs not further away than 10 feet from the Base Station, thus in the same network broadcast.
But, judging Tiger's iChat AV's performance over "internet", where the upload speed of someone's ADSL is the bottleneck (1024 Kb if you're lucky), I think it would work "okay".
If your buddy's upload speed is < 512 Kb you might find iChat Theatre to be jerky once in a while...
I tried doing that, and it appears Leopard really is that fast. The time didn't jump around much during demoes. Apparently, the video was recorded on Sept. 27. The date in the iCal icon pretty much remains the same, except for one point in the Mail demo, it goes to the 30th, and at the end, it goes to Oct. 3.
Exactly, I don't understand the problem. The video was simply a showcase of the features of Leopard, not a gauge on the speed of the hardware.
(Nevertheless, i'm sure it will be nippy when we finally get it
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I was impressed by the USB keyboard with no wire attached to the iMac
I know. I cracked up when I finally notices that.
