Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

arstechnica.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

51–60 of 142 posts

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#51

Post by malandrew »

masklinn wrote: post #41
malandrew wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apparently someone needs to do a 25-page review of the W3C HTML spec and link to the section on the Anchor tag for him.

You mean the thing he used in his table of contents and in every fucking section title of his review? You should avoid blaming him for your own misreadings.

"I actually like [pagination] for very long articles because it helps me keep my place across multiple reading sessions. I can remember I was on page 8 instead of remembering my exact position in a very long scrolling web page."

Tell me why 'I can remember I was reading the section "A Cloud In Three Parts"' doesn't work?

There is a reason that sites that actually understand the medium put a mouseover on Section Titles and anchors so that the link is discoverable. If you don't put a link anchor next to it's respective title you really have no option but to think "Gee, pages are better."

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#52

Post by malandrew »

masklinn wrote: post #40
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section.

> His point about long scrolling web pages isn't actually valid. His point is perfectly valid, it's about mnemonics. > The way to do it is to have a table of contents, and fragment identifiers for each section. Considering his reviews have both table of contents and fragment identifiers, I'm going to go ahead and assert he knows about those. That does not help remember where you are in the article.

What does help you remember where you are is putting a "link to this section" anchor or something similar next to each logical section. Many sites implement this with a mouseover.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#53

Post by lmm »

malandrew wrote: post #45
TechNewb wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They often sell PDFs and ebooks for their major articles.

I find it sad that the state of content is such that we consider PDFs to be the premium content.

Any version without ads is the premium version. Often the first thing I look for in an article is the "print" link, even though I have no intention of ever printing it - for some reason sites make the print version nicer to read.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#54

Post by rhizome »

blinkingled wrote: post #22

TL;DR "In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion . But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release." I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RA…

3GB, my word, son...crucial.com is your friend!

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#55

Post by rb2k_ »

kyleslattery wrote: post #20

Some info from Siracusa about the different ways to read the review: http://siracusa.tumblr.com/post/27978338524/about-my-mountai... Sounds like if you buy the Kindle version when it comes out ($5), he'll get a direct cut, which is nice.

On twitter, he actually points to the Arstechnica subscription (5$) which will give you the review in pdf/epub/mobi

At least he seems to be fine either way.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#56

Post by rhizome »

mdonahoe wrote: post #49
stephen_g wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree - I love all the technical details in these articles so much that I used to read them in detail long before I switched to the Mac... It was probably the biggest thing that convinced me to change (that, and I wanted a laptop that didn't look and feel like cheap plasticy rubbish, which apart from Apple products were few and far between then).

Has anyone here tried any of the macbook air clones? http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/aspiresseries

This isn't really the right place for that question, but all of those have bad resolution screens, as do all of the linux-able ultrabooks. I'm not saying that they should be Retina, but 768 vertical px is unacceptably regressive.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#57

Post by agumonkey »

masklinn wrote: post #50
agumonkey wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed, it's a reference, but I don't recall 20+ pages reviews. (Both had very well executed website redesigns too)

GeForce GTX 680: 20 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-re... Ivy Bridge: 21 pages http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core... I'm sure there are others. The SSD series were not technically review but went well beyond 20 e.g. http://www.anandtech.com/show/2829/ is 27 pages.

You're right. It probably felt shorter because of the game testing parts.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#58

Post by jackbravo »

mdonahoe wrote: post #49
stephen_g wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to agree - I love all the technical details in these articles so much that I used to read them in detail long before I switched to the Mac... It was probably the biggest thing that convinced me to change (that, and I wanted a laptop that didn't look and feel like cheap plasticy rubbish, which apart from Apple products were few and far between then).

Has anyone here tried any of the macbook air clones? http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/models/aspiresseries

I have a ZenBook from asus (UX21 with i7) and it is great: slim, fast, neat screen.

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#59

Post by blinkingled »

rhizome wrote: post #54
blinkingled wrote: post #22

TL;DR "In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion . But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release." I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RA…

3GB, my word, son...crucial.com is your friend!

The machine supports a maximum of 4GB, and believe me it only gets marginally better with the added 1GB.

I guess Crucial also sells SSDs and Apple sells new MBPs with 16GB RAM :) - but at this juncture I hate to spend money on anything when the other supposedly more bloated OS named Win 7 works just great with 3GB - that seriously ought to be more than enough for browsing, email and occassional Word/PPT stuff.

As for the swappiness - it seems to be at least somewhat better than Lion - hasn't used up swap after 20 minutes of doing normal stuff. But the Apple ID/Password annoyance is still there - I still had to enter Apple ID / password several times during and after the installation! The last time hopefully was for iTunes. Why can't they use one single sign on?

Re: John Siracusa's OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Review

#60

Post by [deleted] »

rhizome wrote: post #54
blinkingled wrote: post #22

TL;DR "In some ways, Mountain Lion is a refinement, enhancement, and yes, a major bug-fix for Lion . But the changes and additions are significant enough that they will inevitably come with their own set of bugs. Let's not forget Snow Leopard, which promised no new features but still brought plenty of bugs in its 10.6.0 release." I hope they fixed memory management - Lion is too swap happy and slow on a decent 3Gb RA…

3GB, my word, son...crucial.com is your friend!

[deleted]
Post reply on HN