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Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by glhaynes »

slantyyz wrote: post #67
cemregr wrote: post #20

Maybe they will finally implement resolution-independent UI and release some Retina notebooks, who knows? There's already a higher-resolution 15" MBP available, would be great to see more of that.

I tend to think that Retina on larger screens (iPad sized and larger) still a ways off for cost and gpu/battery reasons. I mean, doesn't a 30" monitor require dual-link capability to feed that resolution? A retina display on even an iPad sized screen would approach that type of resolution.

A Mac "Retina" display wouldn't necessarily have to be 326 dpi like the iPhone 4's: computer displays are usually quite a bit further away from the user than iPhone displays.

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by philwelch »

vasi wrote: post #104
philwelch wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I select "restart" (edit: at least when installing system updates), the computer should save application state and reboot instead of every application asking me stupid questions like "are you REALLY sure you want to quit web browsing?". I want to select "restart", go to the kitchen, get my dinner, come back, and the computer be rebooted and my applications restored the way they were before. Also, the developer t…

The reason package management works better on Linux is not because there's a better package manager program. Rather, it's because there are hundreds of developers for Debian, Fedora, et al who put serious time into making sure the packages themselves work well. Few OS X users really care about Unixy packages, and even fewer actually work on one of the package managers, so bugs just don't get ironed out enough. I don'…

One thing they can do is package-manage the Ruby/Python/Perl/Apache/vim/emacs/gcc/etc. that either comes built into Mac OS X or gets installed with the developer tools. Current package managers either have to work around that (Homebrew) or maintain an entirely separate repository (Macports).

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by philwelch »

ugh wrote: post #91
frou_dh wrote: post #3

Lion: King of beasts. Lion: King of OS X big cat releases -- Last 10.x?

There was nothing leopardy about Leopard and nothing tigery about Tiger so I would expect there to be nothing liony about Lion.

10.0 ("Cheetah") was at least supposed to be cheetahy--i.e. really fast--at least compared to the Public Beta. That was the main focus of improvement there.

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by streblo »

jasonlotito wrote: post #14
_b8r0 wrote: post #5

Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?

Fixing all the problems that OSX is still plagued with. On a daily basis. Here are problems I deal with that are Apple related, almost on a daily basis: * iChat and Bonjour. I cannot, for the life of me, get my iMac and my wife's MBP to chat, let alone do anything else iChat says it can do. I've not found a solution. I can occasionally see the MBP on my iMac, but I cannot do anything with it. * Make iLife make sense.…

How about some god damn support for usb webcams in iChat?

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by noahc »

noahc wrote: post #24
jasonlotito wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Snow Leopard was all about the internals. God, they fubared that. I can't count the number of times my wife complained about Snow Leopard's constant WIFI problems. It's sad when my iPhone has better connectivity then her MBP.

I turn my WIFI on and off at lest 5 times a day.

Just to add more points to the dataset. I've used my laptop on a linksys, checkpoint, two different rebranded qwest routers.

Has anyone had such problems and then everything magically worked when switching to an apple airport express or airport extreme?

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by lukifer »

slantyyz wrote: post #65
pohl wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Two thumbs down." I'm not rating your comment or spotlight or the start button. Rather, that's my mnemonic for Command-Spacebar, which brings focus to the spotlight search field. I can launch Terminal in 5 keystrokes: CMD-Space t e ENTER. Is the Start button really significantly better?

I use the same keystrokes to trigger Quicksilver, which some may prefer over Spotlight.

And I use the same to trigger LaunchBar, Quicksilver's super-fast (and non-free) competitor. :) http://obdev.at/products/launchbar

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by randallsquared »

kenjackson wrote: post #78
wtallis wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The two buttons needed to trigger spotlight are right next to each other, so you can bring it up by rolling your thumb from one to the other, which is at most 50% more inconvenient than just pressing the first button.

Can you press them both at the same time if you have a fat thumb?

After extensive testing (that is, a quick test), the answer is definitely "yes, you can". :)

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by randallsquared »

kogus wrote: post #60

I wish they would get rid of the absurd "mount a disk before you run an installer" paradigm. Installing an app downloaded from the web, Windows vs Mac: Windows: 1 - Click a download link 2 - Yes, I'm sure 3 - Run 4 - Next, Next, Next, Finish 5 - Delete the setup file OS X: 1 - Click a download link 2 - Yes, I'm sure 3 - Open a finder window 4 - Open .dmg file, and it mounts 5 - Open the mounted image 6 - Run the inst…

Much of the time, it's just:

1 - Click a download link

2 - Do other things until the DMG opens automatically

3 - Click and drag the application into the link to /Applications right next to it

4 - Yes, I want to run this downloaded application, the first time you run it.

Deleting the .dmg is something that I don't do as part of this process, but as part of a separate garbage collection process every few weeks.

Re: Apple to announce OS 10.7 (probably) on October 20

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Post by cletus »

cletus wrote: post #21
_b8r0 wrote: post #5

Given that OSX has got to a fairly stable point, what would you want to see in a new version of OSX that would make you want to upgrade?

I must admit, one thing I've become absolutely dependent on in Windows 7 is when you press Start you can do a quick lookup of the program you're after by typing a few characters. Sure OSX has the Finder and Spotlight but it's not quite as quick and convenient, in my experience. But my big request is this: implement the TRIM command in the OS to open up the SSD choices. This is long overdue.

To reply to the point raised by several people: yes I know about CMD-Space (this is what I meant by Spotlight but I guess that can mean more).

Somehow it just doesn't seem as good. Maybe it's the single keypress. Maybe it's that Start also has pinned and commonly used items on it (CMD-Space is just a box you can type in so really it's half the functionality of Win7's Start button).

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