From what I read I get the impression that Boot Camp is almost as easy as fast user switching in that the OSes are not shut down, but put in a state where they give up control of the hardware.Much faster Boot Camp restarting !!!
From what I read I get the impression that Boot Camp is almost as easy as fast user switching in that the OSes are not shut down, but put in a state where they give up control of the hardware.Much faster Boot Camp restarting !!!
A couple of notes from Moscone WWDC (woohoo!)
Menubar transparency can be turned off
However after trying it out, you never want to, it makes you more focused, and less distracted. I thought it was ugly, then tried it. It's actually very good for productivity.
It's fast.
Stacks are fantastic.
The new finder is absolutely the best part. How many years have we wanted a cocoa finder? It's HERE!!!!! Browsing network shares is no longer met with delays, it's using the fast Unix finally. I can try to mount 10 shares without every seeing a cursor.
Proper multi-threaded support. No more pauses when clicking on the menubar or anything else. Apps keep chugging along.
No more beachball so far.
It's the perfect OS for productivity. No crazy changes, just refinement to the extreme.
It's a beautiful thing!
DVD player has been able to play HD-DVDs for a long time. It has blu-ray and HD-DVD settings in prefs now.
Dock works fine on the sides, 3D but the icons are sideways (proper) with shadow. Looks awesome on the side. I'd post pictures but I'd rather not be in Apple prison.
This is what Apple does best...make things pretty, work well and integrate well with their hardware.![]()
Safari is relly great so far, even with the tiny improvements so far![]()
Yeah, we'll see if Steves WWDC07 keynote clip as soon as it reaches apple.com is more impressive, atleast he's a good talker. But I would have wanted more =P, but sure, he might not tell all technical details and whatever.There are many things under the hood that will make your computer run faster.
For example NSOperation makes it really easy for developers to take advantage of multiple cores, without having to worry about concurrency.
The result is faster apps.
Adding polish has obviously been a theme in development.
That said, I still think they need to look at the UI, those aqua scroll widgets don't go as well with the unified look than they did with the pin stripes.
I'm not going to put words in your mouths, but I think a lot of us are disappointed at Leopard so far because Tiger was so revolutionary. It brought some amazing new (large) features, namely Dashboard, Spotlight and Automator. With Leopard, it seems like Apple went through Tiger and refined everything they could, while adding some features like Time Machine and Spaces.
This is just me, but Tiger was about bringing some powerful applications to the Mac. Leopard looks like it's going to refine Tiger and add a boat load of smaller features. Remember, there are about 290 features that we don't even know about yet. I'm sure we will be much happier once Leopard ships.
resolutions change fine. What do you mean of my desk? Everything is res independent. So CTRL + scrollwheel does this fine. But this feature was already made very clear since last WWDC, IE resolution independence. It also has a bunch of session PDF files on res independence.
A couple of notes from Moscone WWDC (woohoo!)
It's fast.
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No more beachball so far.
yes resolution independence activates when you do CTRL + scrollwheel.![]()
I'm definitly one of the OS loving iPhone hating people. My intrest have always been computers and the OS which runs them, only think I care about from Apple is the macs and that's because they have (or should I say had?) OS X, but tiger doesn't impress me that much and Leopard seems like a quite tame update, it would have required more to make me go "omg omg omg wow that's so much better than Vista".To all the OS loving iPhone hating people: Please just be happy with this. I am sick of all the complaints about not enough Mac focus. Ya know why Steve hasn't been talking about his precious new OS. There isn't much to talk about. He likes his iPhone more.
yes resolution independence activates when you do CTRL + scrollwheel.![]()
My God! I've been reading MacRumors for a while now and never posted, but all this negativity from people that don't have a clue made me really angry.
No improvements? New Finder, new Desktop, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spaces, Time Machine and Stacks in the Dock will be a great productivity enhancement for those who work with lots of files and apps. The ability to see the contents of files without opening the apps is AMAZING. What do you wanted? An automatic Star Trek geektard generator?
So, all of you whiners go cry to your mummies because you don't like the bloody transparent menu bar and buy a copy of Vista or lame Ubuntu and shut up. Grow up people, this was at a DEVELOPERS conference, not some fantasy world where you deluded and sad whiners dream of impossible gadgets (like the improbable Mac Tablet or whatever).
Also, it will work with 32 bit processors!
My God! I've been reading MacRumors for a while now and never posted, but all this negativity from people that don't have a clue made me really angry.
No improvements? New Finder, new Desktop, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spaces, Time Machine and Stacks in the Dock will be a great productivity enhancement for those who work with lots of files and apps. The ability to see the contents of files without opening the apps is AMAZING. What do you wanted? An automatic Star Trek geektard generator?
So, all of you whiners go cry to your mummies because you don't like the bloody transparent menu bar and buy a copy of Vista or lame Ubuntu and shut up. Grow up people, this was at a DEVELOPERS conference, not some fantasy world where you deluded and sad whiners dream of impossible gadgets (like the improbable Mac Tablet or whatever).
Also, it will work with 32 bit processors!
A couple of notes from Moscone WWDC (woohoo!)
DVD player has been able to play HD-DVDs for a long time. It has blu-ray and HD-DVD settings in prefs now.
My God! I've been reading MacRumors for a while now and never posted, but all this negativity from people that don't have a clue made me really angry.
No improvements? New Finder, new Desktop, Quick Look, Cover Flow, Spaces, Time Machine and Stacks in the Dock will be a great productivity enhancement for those who work with lots of files and apps. The ability to see the contents of files without opening the apps is AMAZING. What do you wanted? An automatic Star Trek geektard generator?
So, all of you whiners go cry to your mummies because you don't like the bloody transparent menu bar and buy a copy of Vista or lame Ubuntu and shut up. Grow up people, this was at a DEVELOPERS conference, not some fantasy world where you deluded and sad whiners dream of impossible gadgets (like the improbable Mac Tablet or whatever).
Also, it will work with 32 bit processors!