OS X Leopard Ships On October 26th 762
David in AZ writes "According to the Apple website, Mac OS X Leopard will start shipping on October 26! From their blurb: 'Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple's online store. "Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we've ever released," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "And everyone gets the 'Ultimate' version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.""
The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:1, Insightful)
Why does "The Steve" need to bash M$ & Vista at every opportunity? Is it to pander to Apple fanbois? Or does he secretly aspire to be Ballmer? Don't get me wrong, I have a Mac and I don't like M$ as much as the next
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's see (Score:5, Insightful)
hmmm...
Best upgrade? (Score:5, Insightful)
List Moms....pfftt... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Because it's an easy and slow moving target?
I don't recall how many versions of Vista exist, and have given up trying to keep track of what is wrong generally with Vista, but if late night talk show hosts were more technically inclined, I'd wager there would be as a steady stream of jokes about Vista, at least as many as there are about embarassing celebrity goofups and blunders of the day.
So laugh. It's funny. Hell, I don't even own a Mac, and I'm laughing. But I doubt I'm alone in saying that I am paying close attention in anticipation of my next computer purchase.
language distortion field? (Score:5, Insightful)
That's it, just a string of buzzwords, not even grammatical, followed by a link to "learn more [apple.com]". Somebody attended too many marketing or web2.0 presentations. Or maybe they want to put the mystery back in. Turns out, it automagically configures an "instant network". The intro is curious. Does the "ethical community" description mean that security sucks?
Re:The student edition is now $47 more (Score:5, Insightful)
So get over yourself, it obviously isn't for you. And before the "Linux noob" comments come; my servers are Slackware and have been since at least ten years ago.
Translucency is so overrated (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Best upgrade? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Interesting (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:language distortion field? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Interesting (Score:5, Insightful)
Apple are not perfect - they have priorities and make assumptions that may not suit everyone. They tend towards a "closed" PC-as-appliance mentality, and would probably be just as monopolistic as MS if they could get away with it. They over-hype things. Sometimes they just plain screw up...
but...
...you at least get the impression that you have been deprioritised, locked-in, monopolized and possibly screwed by someone with some sort of vision making an intelligent and possibly risky effort to turn out a better product rather than a committee of PHBs and marketdroids taking input from a focus group.
Also, Apple have managed to take UNIX and wrap it in a genuinely friendly GUI front end, c.f. KDE/Gnome/X who have taken Linux and wrapped it in a usable but clunky and over-engineered GUI that is still suffering from its ancestry as a way of letting Unix geeks run 8 simultaneous instances of their favorite CLI shell in translucent windows.
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:5, Insightful)
It's not like charging for a "point release" is unique to Apple. Microsoft did so for the upgrades from Windows 3.0 to 3.1, and from Windows NT 5.0 (Windows 2000) to 5.1 (Windows XP). The thing that determines whether it is worth it to users is what new functionality they get for their money, not which digit of an arbitrary numbering scheme some guy in the marketing department decided to increment.
Short cycle? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Not everybody gets it at $129 (Score:3, Insightful)
Hell Aero doesn't even come with every version of vista. But when you turn it off you basically get a sp3 version of windows XP. I'm not a fan of Vista, I use Ubuntu on my desktop and XP on my laptop(had to downgrade from Vista). Every OS that I have upgraded to(windows based OS) has required some hardware changes, I mean windows 95/98 had a shit less requirements then XP.
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:SLOW (Score:1, Insightful)
I find your lack of vision disturbing (Score:5, Insightful)
Just because you don't do things such as writing on translucent materials or glass things doesn't mean the rest of us don't. Not all technology is for every person. For example, those who actually build things by hand (quilters, seamstresses, wood workers, metal workers, etc.) quite frequently use translucent or clear materials for patterns, templates, and sometimes finished products. How about clear measuring cups? I've seen chefs use clear containers and mark various levels and information on them using erasable markers. Then there is the clear surfaces with map inlays used by tactical planners and tac-rooms. In the Army, decades ago, we would use clear or translucent materials over maps to create different plans and routes, and lay them over various maps. Oh, and waaay back in elementary, junior, and senior high school, and lo even in college, transparencies were used in classrooms with overhead projectors. I've seen the use of transparent or translucent overlay "technology" used in the real world by police, firefighters, medical personnel, construction crews, demolition crews, surveyors, etc..
So since many of us DO use it, translucency (or transparency by your reference to glass) by your own argument IS great, and you simply lack the vision to make use of it, right? It isn't translucency that is overrated, it's your post.
Re:Translucency is so overrated (Score:3, Insightful)
A translucent terminal let's me read the content under it while doing stuff in it.
Drop shadows helps you know which windows is the front most.
How do you know the Mini has not sold? (Score:4, Insightful)
I know a number of people that have minis, and like them (the new Intel versions are a lot more powerful than the older G4 ones).
Re:The Vista bashing is starting to get old.... (Score:3, Insightful)
How thoughtful of them to decide not to let you choose for yourself.
Honestly, I hope you're re-posting their justifications and didn't really come up with those yourself.
What about Boot Camp? (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm not sure if i remember this correctly, but didn't Apple say they would be ending support for boot camp 'beta' as soon as Leopard came out? (i.e. every version that isn't leopard)
Are our XP boot camp partitions that we have now just suddenly going to stop working? I can see people getting really pissed about that, myself included!
On an interesting note it looks like it supports Vista properly now as well. I never wanted to just do an upgrade of my XP in case that stopped working.
I think the age old Apple rule applies. I certainly won't be upgrading to 10.5 until it's at least 10.5.1, and people find workarounds for all the problems that will inevitably come from this upgrade
Re:Bittorrent edition a non starter... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The student edition is now $47 more (Score:3, Insightful)
$100 every few years is much less difficult... (Score:3, Insightful)
It might be exhausting if you didn't feel like you were getting value for the money, but as it stands each release has had a few things that were very useful - and as you said, often with nice updates to system frameworks.
It's also helped that each release has felt faster, so buying a new copy of OSX also replaced a hardware boost I typically underwent with Windows updates.
Re:language distortion field? (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:The student edition is now $47 more (Score:3, Insightful)