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I can't believe it has been considered important enough to be one of the major features of Snow Leopard, I am so happy for the blind and visually impaired. They did it with the new iPhone the first commercialized accessible touchscreen and they are doing it again with the new Mac OS. Apple is the most innovative tech company there is no doubt about it.
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Insanity. Before Leopard, Spotlight was a debacle. After Leopard, it just works. Also: isn't there a whole lot of software you can't install now because Tiger doesn't have Core Animation and isn't LP64? I also wouldn't trust Tiger security on an external network.
Every security update Apple ships for Leopard it also ships for Tiger. And I preferred spotlight in 10.4. In fact, 10.4 was all around a much better OS than 10.5, which was the first update to Mac OS X that felt like a step backwards. Of course, I'll be updating to 10.6 as soon as I can get my hands on it. If nothing else, the promise of a 10.5 that doesn't suck is worth it. To be fair, 10.5 is much better now then w…
You might want to hold off a little while before upgrading, at least until 10.6.1. I upgraded my laptop 3 days ago and since then I've had at least 5 Mail.app crashes, finder a couple of times, and one terminal crash. I did an upgrade install, maybe a clean one is better, but I'm pretty surprised at the instability. Also, if you use Macports, that's not up to speed yet so you'll be doing a lot of fiddling around to g…
How'd you get 10.6? Were they releasing developer copies?
I have a copy on order but couldn't wait. Call it time-shifting.
I am quite surprised no other operating system has something like GCD. Is that MarketingSpeak or is it really something new?
I am quite surprised no other operating system has something like GCD. Is that MarketingSpeak or is it really something new?
.NET has had runtime-wide thread pools since its inception. Unless there's something fundamental about GCD that I'm missing, that puts Windows at least 7 years ahead of OSX on this count.
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.NET has had runtime-wide thread pools since its inception. Unless there's something fundamental about GCD that I'm missing, that puts Windows at least 7 years ahead of OSX on this count.
Well... Java had them (in almost every OS it ran on) since day 1 too. That puts it a couple years ahead of .NET
What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?
I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.
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Well... Java had them (in almost every OS it ran on) since day 1 too. That puts it a couple years ahead of .NET
Sure. I'm not trying to say that Windows was ahead of its time, but rather that Apple seems to be making a big deal out of a feature I'm kind of shocked they didn't already have.
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.NET has had runtime-wide thread pools since its inception. Unless there's something fundamental about GCD that I'm missing, that puts Windows at least 7 years ahead of OSX on this count.
Well... Java had them (in almost every OS it ran on) since day 1 too. That puts it a couple years ahead of .NET
http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/friday-qa-2008-12-26.htm...
http://www.mikeash.com/?page=pyblog/friday-qa-2009-08-14-pra...
I agree there's too much marketing hype surrounding GCD, but neither the CLR nor the JVM can jump through that particular hoop.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
I mean seriously, how many levels of tabs are too many?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/features/whats-ne...