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Leopard Lives and Kicks Vista's Butt

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davidnix71:
The 'pro' part is so the average Joe will think commercial quality. Powerbooks are supposed to be much better made than iBooks. I still have a 113MHz powerbook (almost ten years old) that still runs well (with OS 8.1). It cost over $6k new, so it damn well better last that long.

I am not at all happy about having a new Mac OS every 1 1/2 years. The hardware and software changes so often that it limits the third-party software available. The changes make potential malware very hard to write, but I want more from my computer than just what comes from Apple. In fact, I use none of the iLife stuff and don't even use Safari.

If I 'upgrade' to Tiger, I would have to rebuy software. At least before OS X, pretty much anything that ran in OS 7 would still run under OS 9.

hm_murdock:
What?

I've used a lot of the same software since 10.2 and never needed to change any of it.

WMD:
The OS X APIs were frozen in 10.3.  All software designed for that should work in future versions for a pretty long time.  This isn't surprising - OS X is a very new OS, comparatively.

worker201:
Agreed, 10.5 does not mean Aqua, Carbon, Cocoa, Quartz and Darwin are going to be scrapped.  Classic support is probably finished, but other software seems to be pretty stable.

On the other hand, a new version means more bigger bloat for larger more powerful computers.  Lots of gui extras that won't perform well on older machines.

On the other other hand, it's almost like they're officially fucking with Adobe.  First, they kill Premiere with Final Cut.  Then they switch to an architecture that Adobe can't/doesn't support.  Now, right as Adobe is probably going into the finalizing stages of CS3, Apple announces a new OS, probably with new features an Adobe product should be taking advantage of.  It's kinda funny to watch, as long as it doesn't get in the way of my workflow.

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: WMD ---Didn't Steve seem ill during the keynote?  He only did part of it, and he looked haggard and tired.  I hope it's not his cancer coming back or anything....
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Hmm.. I was just reading Paul Thurrott's (the Windows supersite dude) (very negative) piece on Leopard, and he says:
--- Quote ---OK, enough Jobs bashing. The guy's a visionary and truly important presence in the industry, and it will be a sad, sad day when he steps down from his post at Apple and fades into the sunset. (The reality of this possibility seemed all the more real this week. Am I the only one that though Jobs looked oddly gaunt and sickly during the WWDC keynote?) But as I've often said of Apple and Jobs: They do good work. It's too bad they feel the need to exaggerate so much.
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http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/macosx_leopard_preview.asp
And also make sure you see: http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/08/11/219216.shtml

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