Steve Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 I presume they ignore gamers, because most games generally require Windows. Whilst they probably don't mind selling Mac hardware and having users use Windows on their systems, I can't imagine they'd overly encourage it. It's true Apple make most money from hardware, but the charm of Macintosh (and recently iPhone and iPod) is of course the seamless link between hardware and software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeR Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Something interesting I picked up while watching Apple WWDC 2005: Steve mentions that "OS X has set up Apple for the next 20 years" hmm so no OS 11 any time soon I guess... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 [...] there is more money to be made from "switchers" than from gamers. I don't think so. Probably equal, or the opposite IMO. I'm always seeing people who don't switch because of the average graphics hardware. Slowly, they are adopting better graphics cards though. It should have been a 8600 in the iMac, and an integrated graphics card in the MacBook. Now, they want to adopt more stuff from nVidia for the upcoming Mac Mini, which should be a wonderful cheap Mac machine to game on, and the same goes for the iMac. I can only hope they will choose a high-end graphics card for the iMac once for all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Something interesting I picked up while watching Apple WWDC 2005: Steve mentions that "OS X has set up Apple for the next 20 years" hmm so no OS 11 any time soon I guess... I don't think he meant it so literally. The kind of potential inherent in OS X provides quite a foundation on which to build. Or, we could also say that the design concepts, the deep - almost maddeningly detailed attention to certain part of the OS, has set the tone for Apple's direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thealexweb Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 What happens when they reach 10.9 or run out of cat names? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasondefaoite Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 What happens when they reach 10.9 or run out of cat names? 10.10. There are a lot of cat names still to go :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Antonius Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 10.9 10.10 The second one is actually 10.1..... :p 10.90 10.10 See? It would have to be 10.9.1/10.9.2/etc Till they hit 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted December 25, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted December 25, 2008 10.910.10 The second one is actually 10.1..... :p 10.90 10.10 See? It would have to be 10.9.1/10.9.2/etc Till they hit 11. No. 10.90 is totally different from 10.9. 10 is the system number. (OS 8, OS 9, OS 10). The numbers after is the revision and it's not limited to just 9 revisions. People thought that 10.4.9 would be the last update for Tiger, but they went to 10.4.11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Antonius Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 Thats is what i mean. They couldnt do 10.10 as people would get confused with 10.1 It would have to be something like 10.11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted December 25, 2008 Author Veteran Share Posted December 25, 2008 They did 10.4.10, did people really get that confused with 10.4.1? I doubt it. If needed, 10.10 will come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 If they make a lolcat edition I will buy a Mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lels Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 ^ that made me lol for real Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted February 12, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2009 Some leaks from MacRumors (not my screenshots) Activity Monitor, showing 64-bit love and 1px borders. Revamped Audio Midi Setup, now as Audio Devices. Text clippings now copy/paste and quick look. 64-bit kext/drivers love. Preview, with new bottom toolbar and annotate settings. Printer driver downloads. Revamped Keyboard Shortcuts editor and a new Services editor. Stacks can browse through folders now. (notice the scroll bar to the right, not sure why it's on the desktop though) New text settings. Smart quotes, text replacement, and font activation. Correctly detects TVs Volume in use by.. NTFS write. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Very, very nice. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osirisX Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Snow Leopard is shaping up nicely. Writeable NTFS, awesome. Browsable Stacks, awesome. Icon resize slider in Finder, awesome. Services management, awesome. Put Back, awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denholm Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 NTFS Write! (Y) Excellent!! Love the other changes too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Features in Snow Leopard? Yee-haw! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PyX Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 They couldnt do 10.10 as people would get confused with 10.1 I completely understand what you mean. I was really confused back in the day with "ATI Catalyst version 3.10" while version 3.1 was already out. BUT, 10.1 will be so old if/when 10.10 is out that nobody will confuse it, trust me. And like giga said, these 10.4.10 and up releases didn't confuse anyone. I get your point though, a proper versioning system wouldn't be like this. NTFS Write! Excellent!! Damn, are you serious? I mean, I already have it because I installed a third-party plugin, but if it's native when I install OS X, it'll be nice! Read & Write for ZFS, HFS, NTFS and FAT32. Windows-friendly and Mac-friendly. Nice ! :D Features in Snow Leopard? I would barely call these features, but they certainly bring Leopard closer to perfection by adding little tidbits here and there. Makes me happy too :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giga Veteran Posted February 12, 2009 Author Veteran Share Posted February 12, 2009 Icon resize slider in Finder. Really? Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suspiria Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 Nice. So far so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osirisX Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Really? Link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted February 13, 2009 Veteran Share Posted February 13, 2009 Its shaping nicely. 2009 and 2010 will be very interesting years for OSes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suspiria Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Ewww that slider control looks so out of place on the Finder window itself. I'd rather it be kept in it's current View Options home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Ewww that slider control looks so out of place on the Finder window itself. I'd rather it be kept in it's current View Options home. i kinda like it there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Symons Veteran Posted February 13, 2009 Veteran Share Posted February 13, 2009 Its shaping nicely. 2009 and 2010 will be very interesting years for OSes Completely irrelevant, I like your signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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