Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures 551
RAMMS+EIN writes with a good followup to the recent WWDC preview of Tiger, the next version of OS X. "eWeek has a slideshow illustrating some of Tiger's new features with screenshots. For a textual description, you can visit Apple's Tiger page."
Get an eMac (Score:1, Informative)
If you do decide to get a Mac, make sure to pump it full of RAM. I'd say 512 MB is a good amount, but nothing less, certainly not the stock 256 stick.
Re:Why should I do that (Score:1, Informative)
Well then USE the option not to install the stuff you don't want when you install OSX. That's what it's there for.
Re:They said that Linux users are spoiled? (Score:1, Informative)
The install CD contains packages much like
They're not quite as discrete as linux packages though - many sets of utils are grouped together - but there's still a good few dozen of them in total that you can pick through.
If you really need to just install one app, you can use a utility such as Pacifist, which will pull any package into its subpackages, and you can install those.
The new hardware is sexy too (Score:5, Informative)
Two 30" 2560x1900 widescreen displays being driven by a new custom Nvidia 6800 Ultra [thinksecret.com]
It looked practical too, there was a demo with Final Cut Pro running with several tools up on the right, and the HD video up on the left. Seemed like a pretty useful setup.
I checked, and a "nicely equipped" dual monitor dual g5 came up to just under $12,000 on the apple store. Seems like a lot to most of us, but that's chump change for a high-quality HD video editing kit.
Also, I got about 50fps on Unreal Tournament 2004 running at 2560x1900 with all settings at maximum.
Re:I'm still hoping for a more snappy interface... (Score:2, Informative)
The Mac is now workable for any type of task... it's *that* fast... but it's still not where XP is."
I also use XP and OS X on a daily basis and don't find XP to be snappier at all. My XP box is a 2.8 Ghz Dell with 512 MB of RAM while my Mac is an 800 Mhz ibook with 640 MB of RAM.
If I turn Zone Alarm off, the two computers perform almost identically even though the Dell comp has the Mhz advantage. (I will not run an XP box without spybot and zonealarm. It's always amazing to see what windows apps phone home when you are using them.)
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Informative)
Bah old news, see the live video demo (Score:2, Informative)
note: click on "Watch Now"!
Re:I'm still hoping for a more snappy interface... (Score:5, Informative)
On one of the PCs at work, right clicking on a folder would sometimes take like 20 seconds ot show up--it was insane. I ran regclean, and now it's instantaneous. If XP has a problem, it's cruft in the registry.
OTOH, you might want to take a look at my other post in this article--among professionals, a signifigant number have stuck with OS9 because osx gui etc and overhead is so much heavier than in os9 that programs like photoshop, illustrator, quark, etc run a lot slower.
Re:Most important "new feature" (Score:5, Informative)
- Improved compiler (GCC 3.5) which can create better PPC code, especially for the G5
- Improved Quartz Extreme. The core image API that was demo'ed included QE enhancements and performance increases.
- Some of the iApp's such as Mail, Address Book and iCal have seen significant rewrites
- Improvements to SMB and most networking protocols
Obviously that is not an exhaustive list, but you can find more info on Apple's website.Re:I think mac users are spoiled. (Score:1, Informative)
More importantly, MPlayerOSX [sourceforge.net] is an OS X wrapper for MPlayer that handles full screen, plus the bonus of WMV files. My only gripe with it is that though it has a playlist it won't play through them. (At least 6.5 doesn't; I hadn't realized there was a 7.0 until researching this link.) Makes queuing up Red vs. Blue [redvsblue.com] a pain.
Re:WWDC version apparently leaked. (Score:1, Informative)
when you hire the BeFS designer... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:what is MSFT charged for service packs? (Score:3, Informative)
Now Tiger is a upgrade but it's a complete OS. Meaning you don't need anything on the HD to install it. You can install Panther on a formated HD or on top of Jaguar.
Also since Apple doesn't require a serial any group of folks can buy one copy of Tiger and then just share the copy. My friend just did this and only paid $5.00 for his copy.
And if your student you can get it from Apple for $69.00
Re:I think mac users are spoiled. (Score:2, Informative)
Re:title bar (Score:3, Informative)
2: Blue is a standard (and default) highlight color on Macs, since before OS X, and almost all of the places that are shown blue could well be highlighted in those screenshots.
It really looks almost the same as my current desktop, with the single exception of the reverse-color 'Apple' menu, and squared-off corners on the menubar. (And discounting the new features, of course.) I don't see what you are talking about.
Re:I might switch to mac (Score:1, Informative)
I wouldn't say that some of the things you mention are design flaws, however.
Is it bad that OS X has no 'maximize' button (in its place there is a 'zoom to fit' button)? I wouldn't say so - both are imperfect, but I have found 'zoom to fit' more useful.
Here is how you can test it out for yourself. If AOL Instant Messenger is available to you on a Windows platform, sign on and then shrink your buddy list until some people on it are hidden - and then maximize your buddy list. The buddy list will occupy your whole display, which is something no one would ever want to do. Nor are you able to resize the window while it is in its maximized state - didn't know what a poor design choice this was until I switched.
If you had the beautiful open-source Adium client [adiumx.com] (based on libgaim, but only available on the Mac), you would be able to zoom to fit instead. Your buddy list will grow vertically (revealing as many contacts as it is able to fit on-screen), but it won't occupy the whole screen. I believe this behavior is preferable. If the 'zoom to fit' button fails you, you're able to go back and manually resize - without having to 'restore' the window to its non-maximized state. This behavior is intuitive and easier to learn initially. If you think about it, having two window states (maximized/non-maximized) is as silly as falling back on a console-based editor with edit and insert modes (which OS X allows you to do 'out of the box' - I do love my vim!
Re:title bar (Score:3, Informative)
Konfabulator vs. Dashboard (Score:4, Informative)
Re:New Feature: Spotlight (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I might switch to mac (Score:1, Informative)
NOLF 2...
Might and Magic...
This list goes on of things not ported to the Mac. And when they are, they are ported. Very rarely do they come out in a reasonable time frame after they have been released for the PC.
The rest of my computing experience is just as important as playing games. But I want current games. That's why I keep a Windows install around. Just for games.
Re:Windows already has this feature (Score:1, Informative)
Since this thing indexes in the background, and on saves, I'm hoping it'll be faster. It also should save some time since it's only reading embedded meta-data, and not the whole darn file.
Re:Get an eMac (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Most important "new feature" (Score:3, Informative)
Of course, saying this, I can't wait for Apple to make all of Mac OS X 64bit because we may finally be able to address more than 2Gb of RAM with each application, a major sore point for people buying G5's.
Re:new features (Score:3, Informative)
Fast-user switching? That's not a really big feature, and MS are playing catch-up with everyone else in this area anyway. You still have to basically log out - it's not like you can open up an app as a different identity or anything useful like that.
Multi-monitor support? We're really reaching the bottom of the barrel now. Other OSs have also had that for yonks.
'Various multimedia additions'. Cool. Got to love that 'various additions'.
A picture viewer? Fuck me if that's not a feature to be raving about.
Oh yeah. The log-on screen.
WOW! What a list of improvements. Pitty they didn't make it more stable. Or more secure. Or add some new features.
Re:I might switch to mac (Score:3, Informative)
as for the global menubar, you and Paul Fitts [wikipedia.org] should have a little talk.
Re:I might switch to mac (Score:3, Informative)
At least on the PowerBook you can download the hack that makes the trackpad into a 3 button trackpad with scrollwheel action.
And yes, the menubar at the top of the screen is the sensible option for a fast interface. As long as the items on the menubar actually extend to the top of the screen, of course, so you can whack the mouse up there and click. Hell, Windows still doesn't extend the taskbar items to the base of the screen for some elements, meaning you still have to aim the mouse pointer. The menubar at the top is something that MacOS and AmigaOS both got correct.
Re:The new hardware is sexy too (Score:3, Informative)
The 30" displays require a dual link DVI connection, which is currently only present in the new nVidia card (6800?), to provide enough bandwidth. The current PowerBooks (and PowerMacs) only have single-link DVI connectors. Hopefully the next revision of the PowerBook will contain a card that can drive one of these things (not that I will be able to afford one).
For an Alt-Tab replacement (Score:4, Informative)
"Focus window (active) or next window" to something. This gives you the iterate through windows, rather then iterate through apps functionality you are probably after.
I have it set to "Option ~"
Pretty much like Alt Tab on windows. I use it all the time.
Re:I might switch to mac (Score:2, Informative)
I'm not trying to debate any of your points here; just trying to be helpful. If you turn on the keyboard shortcut for Focus on Dock (in the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane), ^F3 (or any shortcut you want) will take you to the Dock, and you can use the arrow keys to select the window that you want to maximize. Then just press Return and there's your window!
Re:Get an eMac (Score:1, Informative)
You are assuming that OS X is safer simply due to "security through obscurity." That isn't true. OS X really is designed to be more secure. Read this article. [washingtonpost.com]
If the user bases were equal, Windows XP would STILL have more malware.