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yeah I'm pretty excited, too.No new features? It's a year out and so far it has these "new" features.
100% Redone Cocoa Finder, With lots of extra navigation goodies, thumbnail slider, and hella fast. 50,000 items with labels no lag in browsing.
100% Cocoa iTunes,
Safari 4, Awesome stuff is happening, for ADC leopard members you can get safari 4 now.
And don't forget Quicktime X. Think VLC + Windows Media Player GPU optimization + Apple with GPU acceleration on crack. They've finally GOTTEN MEDIA playing done right. It's like BeOS was back in the day.
And the multicore stuff, it's hella, hella fast.... AND I do mean hella.
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Court Kizer
Because this an early preview release. I wonder if there will be other builds available right before or after MobileMe launch.
Well I'll say it again but I'm not so excited. I still believe there will be so many issues with 3rd party software that it will be pointless to switch... I just hope I am wrong.
I really hope that Snow Leopard introduces GPGPU, CUDA, OpenCL and related technologies. Tom's Hardware wrote up a really good article about the technology the other day, with their own test application running 6x faster on the GPU over the CPU, and they didn't even optimize any of the code (it was a quick and dirty app they threw together. Just imagine what a real engineer, like the ones at Apple could do.
They probably kept it .mac just in case they decided at the last minute to not announce the MobileMe service because of problems or whatever. Or in case the build was leaked. Too bad we figured out what it was going to be called beforehand anyway.
Sand-timer ... beach ball ... it's all starting to make sense now!
No, honestly, the only time I've ever had a blue screen of death was when I was manually tweaking my TCP/IP stack to better handle an extreme number of connections. No, really.
They are implementing OpenCL, it's right on Apple's Snow Leopard page at http://www.apple.com/macosx/snowleopard/.
Although... the fine print reads:
All features on this page are subject to change.
A couple of things come to mind right off.
1.
Distribution of custom apps would be very easy this way especially for a corporation. Take in to account local data storage and the web app may never need to contact the home base to deliver useful information.
2.
Web apps can save significantly on bandwidth.
3.
All the extra "stuff", that is menus, icons and what have you are not needed for many web apps.
To many people are passing judgement on something that hasn't even arrived. Besides that Apple has already stated that Snow leopard is a release that will not be offering up a lot of user obvious features.
Hmm' I don't know about that DASHCODE has the potential of being a very good rapid development environment for certain classes of applications. This would even more likely be the case if DASHCODE apps could be freed from DashBoard.
Dave
I have a similar setup, just less ram, and since I put Leopard on, it seems... sluggish. Before it used to load the desktop quicker than I could get out of the room, but I easily have 1 minute or so to play around before it's fully up and running. Maybe a reinstall may fix it, but it's such a hassle.
When have we not seen that?!
I am with you on this. I have Safari 4 on both my MBP on both the PC and Mac side and yes FF3 is way better. Could be the fact it is beta still but I still find FF better no matter what.
Most uninteresting screen shots. Ever.
I am very supportive of this move by Apple. Focusing on quality and really cementing down a platform for the next 10 years is a bold move.
I hope this focus on quality will soon extend to hardware. With a rock solid OSX which scales both up to massive multi-processor environments and scales down to mobile devices, combined with HIGH QUALITY hardware, Apple will be unstoppable for the next 10 years.
But they've got to get the quality issues fixed. It's getting bad.
I am very supportive of this move by Apple. Focusing on quality and really cementing down a platform for the next 10 years is a bold move.
I hope this focus on quality will soon extend to hardware. With a rock solid OSX which scales both up to massive multi-processor environments and scales down to mobile devices, combined with HIGH QUALITY hardware, Apple will be unstoppable for the next 10 years.
But they've got to get the quality issues fixed. It's getting bad.
"Address Book with Microsoft Exchange support coming in Snow Leopard".
That is good, but, what about importing from Palm Desktop?
http://www.palm.com/us/software/desktop/mac.html
We have tons of data on such aging application that Palm does not seem to update or enhance any more since year 2004. Any PDA software out there capable of importing all data from Palm Desktop? Thanks.
That is good, but, what about importing from Palm Desktop?
http://www.palm.com/us/software/desktop/mac.html
We have tons of data on such aging application that Palm does not seem to update or enhance any more since year 2004. Any PDA software out there capable of importing all data from Palm Desktop? Thanks.
Couldn't this work:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19749
Just type "palm" in the search field to see everything else. There ought to be SOMETHING you can use, no?
And if that disclaimer discourages some just read the Khronos Group's Work Group formed by Apple's OpenCL
http://www.khronos.org/news/press/releases/khronos_launches_heterogeneous_computing_initiative/
Current Members already [in alphabetical order]:
- 3Dlabs,
- AMD,
- Apple,
- ARM,
- Codeplay,
- Ericsson,
- Freescale,
- Graphic Remedy,
- IBM,
- Imagination Technologies,
- Intel,
- Nokia,
- NVIDIA,
- Motorola,
- QNX,
- Qualcomm,
- Samsung,
- Seaweed,
- TI, and
- Umeå University.
Excerpt:
I'd say that OpenCL has a broad cross-section of industry heavy-weights and growing. They want this to be out-in-the-wild and Apple will have it buil-in to OS X from the ground up to the Cocoa APIs.
well, try the Acid Test and then, when FF stops at 79%, hover over the window to get the Question Mark and click.
Then see if you can get out of the error message without closing the entire page....
Safari 4 = 100%.
In response to Web Applications and networks:
Distributed Networks for Corporations should already have their single copy of each Application, with site-license available on the Corporate Servers and when launched use local machine resources to run it. This has been built-into OS X since the early days of NeXT. Example: While at NeXT we had all our User Apps installed and broadcasted inside our networks while we access the backbone via our network user accounts. We only used local resources to run the processes and of course to install local copies of User/Dev Tools plus WebObjects and EOF Tools.
Safari 4's "Save as Web Application" feature sounds very interesting. Would this also work for mobile Safari on the iPhone/iPodTouch?
I do a lot of outdoor photography including multi-shot panoramas. There is this very handy online FOV calculator that assists you in setting up your gear.
It would be great to have this calculator at hand in the field on one's Touch.
I do a lot of outdoor photography including multi-shot panoramas. There is this very handy online FOV calculator that assists you in setting up your gear.
It would be great to have this calculator at hand in the field on one's Touch.
News must be a bit thin on the ground
I hope Snow Leopard is at a lower price than Leopard, otherwise I can see quite a few people giving it a miss.
i wont