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WWDC: Leopard Details

No Tabs in the Finder?

Does anyone know if the new finder has tabs(like Path Finder), or why they wouldn't put them in. It seems like an obvious feature to add.
 
Proud to be a MacUser ;o)

surferfromuk said:
I really don't know how much 'insane greatness' one man can pull out of a turtleneck in a year but so far I've seen plenty to be pleased about.

We should be very glad that Apple no longer the fragile 'one trick pony' it once was and we should really begin to try and not see OSX in such isolation anymore.

The iphone, for one, is some of the purest 100% apple magic we've ever seen and I for one really see the entire Apple 'experience' as becoming something incredibly powerful and seductive - Itunes - Ipod - Iphone - Macs - OSX - Great S/W Apps - Apple TV - Airport Express etc etc.

Can anyone seriously deny the Apple product profile in 2007 is slowly evolving into something just utterly stunning and Leopard builds some really nice features into what is becoming an incredibly sophisticated home media distribution and management 'system'.

No one comes close to making all this stuff 'WORK' as well as Apple. Nothing comes close to the full Apple experience.

You have to admit it's getting better a little better all the time..
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Thank you ... you know back in the days ... I found myself a couple of times ... looking over to the Windows World and being a little jealouse about some apps or other stuff that was working only there ... I also found myself getting some PC´s on the side to enjoy some Gaming and other little Gadet stuff ... but most of the time I was happy with my Apple.

By now ... it turns into a much happier mood ... I really don´t look anymore "at all" to the Windows People ... the only time I do ... is to feel sorry for what they have to deal with !

It is such a great think being a MAC User !

P.S. Just wishing that they would make some "Transition Center" for all those switchers ... that come with their Nerdie Windows additude, so you won´t be bothered running into them before they elevate (switch) their mindset and are set for being a compatible member of the Apple World ;o)
 
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While Mr. Jobs spent a considerable amount of time reviewing features previewed at last year's conference, he did not note that iChat would include AAC-LD (AAC low delay), which promises enhanced audio quality in iChat conversations.
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Actually Mr. Jobs:apple: did comment on AAC-LD, at the very beginning of the iChat part of the Keynote.

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Just pointing it out.

Puma
 
Hello, If anyone here would know..will my G4 1.33 GHz ibook able to run Leopard?
 
Gone !

SirOmega said:
Is it me or did the remarks about safe sleep get removed from the bootcamp page?

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/bootcamp.html

I was going to write something up about safe sleep but I guess not now.
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You are aboslutely right ! It´s gone ... but it was there before ... saying switching from windows to osx ... will be more like switching between users, rather then restart the whole think ... hmmm ... wonder why ?

Honestly ... I personaly think that there will be a couple of more "nice" surprises waiting for us, in regards to leopard ;o)
 
Illan said:
call me anything you want But a mac noob. but has anyone noticed that the Hard Drive icon(usually in the top right of you screen) is missing from all of the desktop shots of leopard?
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This is optional under Tiger (and earlier, I think), so maybe it was just turned off.
From the menu in finder:
Finder --> Preferences --> General --> Show these items on the desktop --> Hard Disks
 
flopticalcube said:
Only in the same vein as the original Macs where 16bit.

Everything in the processor in the MBs is 64bit and that's what the OS will see.

The only current 32bit machine is the mini.
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That and the first gen CD MBPs.

RealMcCoy said:
Thank you ... you know back in the days ... I found myself a couple of times ... looking over to the Windows World and being a little jealouse about some apps or other stuff that was working only there ... I also found myself getting some PC´s on the side to enjoy some Gaming and other little Gadet stuff ... but most of the time I was happy with my Apple.

By now ... it turns into a much happier mood ... I really don´t look anymore "at all" to the Windows People ... the only time I do ... is to feel sorry for what they have to deal with !

It is such a great think being a MAC User !

P.S. Just wishing that they would make some "Transition Center" for all those switchers ... that come with their Nerdie Windows additude, so you won´t be bothered running into them before they elevate (switch) their mindset and are set for being a compatible member of the Apple World ;o)
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And I wish they would make a de-snobing center for everyone who looks down their nose at Windows. I'm not trying to start a fight but damn it I'm sick of the attitude. OS X is no better then Windows. Both have their flaws, both their strengths and I really wish some mac users would get this through their head.
Frankly I'm considering Moving back to Windows. My "experience" on OS X hasn't been all that rosy. To be quite honest I've had more issues (With the accompanying frustration.) with Tiger then I ever did on XP and that isn't flame bait. Its the honest truth.
 
new Finder - classic mode

How much customizability is there in the new Finder? The demos all showed huuuge Finder windows, but I like my file-management to be as minimal as possible. I guess I have two main questions:

1. Can the sidebar be turned off? How small can I shrink it if I want to?

2. The top-right button on the Finder windows is still there -- the one that toggles the toolbar etc. What does it do in the new Finder? Is it identical?
 
interesting features

I don't know about all of you, but I think that their desktop clearing features and their new ways to browse media in finder are great improvements and probably the best ideas I've seen so far. Browsing large amouts of media and documents has become a problem and some people install all kinds of addons to make it easier. There are programs out there that help organizing documents and media files and give document previews without opening the files. Desktop clutter is a real problem too for many people. I am glad to see that Apple did one of the things it does best: think of new ways to improve computer usability and reduce complexity.

Also I find that releasing Safari for Windows was an excellent move.

Time machine is probably very useful but I am sure that sometime in the future they will eliminate all the associated special effects and will opt for a more sober interface.
 
tuskertusker said:
"Most of the audience laughed when the new desktop was shown. There's only one reason they could have laughed; they thought it was a joke thrown up as a copy of Vista. I absolutely cannot believe they used a wet grass desktop image, same as Vista. On top of the transparent menu bar and screwing with the dock."
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Yeah, that was pretty funny. They all thought it was a joke, and I can understand why. It looked like a Vista theme for the existing OS X in many ways.

I get the feeling Steve isn't really personally involved in OS X any more (like he was back in the Next days). Another almost hiccup was at the end when he was summarizing all the new features and it looked like he forgot what the Core Animation icon represented for a second. He paused just a little too long.
 
aLoC said:
Yeah, that was pretty funny. They all thought it was a joke, and I can understand why. It looked like a Vista theme for the existing OS X in many ways.

I get the feeling Steve isn't really personally involved in OS X any more (like he was back in the Next days). Another almost hiccup was at the end when he was summarizing all the new features and it looked like he forgot what the Core Animation icon represented for a second. He paused just a little too long.
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I look at it this way, hes in charge of a much different company. Back in the Next days, it was just the Mac. The company has evolved into so much more now, we have not only the Mac (with that OS X) but the iPod Line, the iPhone market, and Apple TV. On top of that we have a massive suite of consumer and professional software developed mainly in house. One man can not be personally involved with all of that. And as we saw at MWSF, the iPhone is Steve's baby. He treated it there in much the same way he treated the original Mac.

It's not that company focus has changed or been diverted, but that Steve's focus has. I don't think he has stopped caring or anything idiotic and drastic like that, but he just has a newer interest as of now.

Who cares, we have an awesome OS and from all the first hand accounts, everything rocks so much more in person (which is usually true with everything). This year has truly been pretty awesome for the Mac platform and all that works with it, and goodness, its not even half way over (pretty damn close though).
 
does anyone think its possible that steve didnt want to reveal all the secret features that he mentioned last year because leopard isnt coming out untill october although they origionally thought june?

ps: wheres ilife 07/leopard?:( :confused:
 
Ok...what really got me was, him running Wow, Garage Band, Safari, Finder making widgets for dashboard and other stuff....as well as Spaces with the Core Animation with absolutly zero slowdown. I am very (being a windows user) surprised with the no slowdown. Makes me want a mac even more.

I need a job first tho :(. Also..I"m liking safari on Windows. It does render pages quite fast.
 
EagerDragon said:
How you know that?
Based on ?
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The fact that Leopard is not 64bit specific. It supports 64bit CPU's and takes advantage of the extra "bitness" if it's present, but it does not require it.

shidoshi said:
I want real, under the hood, productivity improvements, not a bunch of shiny new features to make me ignore the continuing lack of feature depth that a lot of Apple's software has.
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"under-the-hood" would mean features that are not apparent to the user, yet make the system better. Well, that's easy:

- Improved support for multicore CPU's. Multithreaded Finder and apps, resulting in better performance and smoother operation
- top-to-bottom support for 64bit processors, boosting performance and handling of large files
- Xcode 3.0 and Xray. These enable developers to create next-generation kick-ass apps
- UNIX. It really is

If those don't cut it, what did you have in mind then?
 
we ignore people like that;)

what would be awesome is if iTunes itself were to be integrated into finder (especially for the music, movies and possibly pictures folder)




p.s. i can see my dock being seen without an electron microscope with the help of leopard:D
 
RealMcCoy said:
Thank you ... you know back in the days ... I found myself a couple of times ... looking over to the Windows World and being a little jealouse about some apps or other stuff that was working only there ... I also found myself getting some PC´s on the side to enjoy some Gaming and other little Gadet stuff ... but most of the time I was happy with my Apple.

By now ... it turns into a much happier mood ... I really don´t look anymore "at all" to the Windows People ... the only time I do ... is to feel sorry for what they have to deal with !

It is such a great think being a MAC User !

P.S. Just wishing that they would make some "Transition Center" for all those switchers ... that come with their Nerdie Windows additude, so you won´t be bothered running into them before they elevate (switch) their mindset and are set for being a compatible member of the Apple World ;o)
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Thanks RealMcCoy - It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who doesn't take such excellence for granted.

It's very hard to plot a course of true innovation into the unknown AND keep a billion dollar global enterprise churning out solid reliable products that have a real world practical (and pleasurable), purpose.

At the very least the Apple train is still very much moving forwards in good solid safe strides.
 
RealMcCoy said:
Honestly ... I personaly think that there will be a couple of more "nice" surprises waiting for us, in regards to leopard ;o)
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Why? Just accept the OS as it is! There is nothing else.

To be fair, porting Tiger to Intel was a colossal achievement, so we can cut them some slack for lost time on the OS, i suppose. But let's accept that Leopard is finished, and move on.
 
Much Ado said:
To be fair, porting Tiger to Intel was a colossal achievement, so we can cut them some slack for lost time on the OS, i suppose. But let's accept that Leopard is finished, and move on.
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OSX has always been "ported" since 10.0. They didn't port Tiger to Intel. They always had an Intel version in house.
 
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