Preview of Mac OS X 10.2

andrew writes "Some developers have written to the USA Register to share some of the changes and new features in the Mac OS X 10.2 beta released at WWDC (codenamed Jaguar). The story outlines some performance enhancements as well as changes to both Finder and Dock; there are a few screenshots as well." Update: 05/13 22:22 GMT by P : More screen shots! Zo0ok writes "Think Secret has a bunch of screenshots and a description of new features in Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)."

Re:some notes I had

[drsmithy]

The system boots from a cold start faster than 10.1.4, but still not what I'd call "fast".

Why do people (it seems particularly prevalent in Mac users) have this obsession with boot times ? I can understand why back in the days of MacOS Classic and regular reboots why it would have been an issue, but why are people rebooting their OS X boxes often enough for it to be of anything more than curiosity value ? Is it just an "old habits die hard" thing causing you to reboot so often ?

imac issue

[liloconf]

I'm worried about this 10.2 release, everyone says its going to be great but I'm sitting here with my just bought old school imac g3/700 with its 16 meg video and 256 of ram, and am worried. Quartz extreme doesn't look like its going to run on my computer and I'm just wondering what happened to the OS updates that would make things run faster, not slower? My 3 pc's have been with me since win 98 and are all running XP with no slow down at all. I expect new games or graphics apps are the things I need to upgrade for not an OS release one month after I get my computer. When someone drops 2 grand on a computer With all the bells and whistles it should be OS upgradeable for years, or hell at least one.

What I want to see...

[dadragon]

OS X.2 looks REALLY cool, but there is one thing that will probably never change. It's not a technical issue, but business practices at Apple.

They still sell "North American English" versions of their computers all over the continent. That's not so bad, until the speach recognition doesn't recognise "schedule" and "zed", to name a few.

It also doesn't know "colour", "realise", or "flavour" to name a few.

It would be quite easy for Apple to sell "US English" in the USA, and "International English" in Canada.

So why not?

Re:imac issue

[Ster]

Quoth liloconf

...My 3 pc's have been with me since win 98 and are all running XP with no slow down at all...

Come on now: no slowdown? I find that hard to believe. I admin a lab on my college campus, and we had a line of computers that came with 98SE or NT4. Of course, the university ordered them with NT, and of course we overwrote that with 98 so we could game! Eventually the university decided to standardize on XP Pro.
We tried the upgrade on the machines we had 98 on: it didn't go well. We had to upgrade the RAM on them to 256 to get reasonable stability without hitting swap every few minutes. Even then, the speed was not pretty.
So, I kind of doubt that your machines run XP without slowdowns, without upgrades.

Just my 2 cents,
-Ster