Posted on 10/16/2007 12:13:12 PM PDT by abt87
Bumped from its slated June launch date thanks to the frantic scramble to finish the iPhone, the latest version of Mac OS X is finally ready for its close-up. Apple announced today that "Leopard" will bound into stores next Friday, complete with a revamped desktop, a new backup feature, and more ways to inspect your file folders.
The Apple Store is already taking preorders for Mac OS X v10.5, which will go on sale at 6 p.m. on October 26. Expect to shell out $130 for a single-user license, or $200 for a five-user family pack. Also keep in mind that the system requirements for Leopard are pretty hefty this time around: those with Intel systems should be OK, but PowerPC users will need at least an 867MHz G4 processor with 512MB of RAM. Sorry, G3 users—looks like Mac OS 10.4 is the end of the line for you.
Many of the changes in Leopard look more like tweaks than full-scale innovations. The Dock, for instance, is now glossy and foreshortened, and it has a new feature: Stacks, which are Dock items that spring up with files and folders when clicked. The Finder, meanwhile, adds a revamped folder sidebar that organizes system items into Devices, Shared, and Places; even better, you'll be able to browse your files using Cover Flow from iTunes. Nice, but not exactly mind-blowing.
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Tough. Just suck it up and do it... the pain won't last long.
I’ll try to force myself...
That's OK. Put your money in the pockets of ultra-liberal Bill Gates. And his flunky Steve Ballmer who sits in the CEO chair at Microsoft.
Does Bill Gates lean left?
Silly!
At least half of all Mac users are ex-Windows users who have made an informed choice of the better platform.
The fact is that almost ALL Mac users are also users of Windows... and as a result are better informed of the relative merits of each platform than are Windows users, who in the most part, have never touched a Mac.
“who in the most part, have never touched a Mac.”
I’ve “touched” and used Mac’s and they’re not that much better and have just as many use issues or problems as Windows PC’s. And until they got Intel CPU’s were slower than most PC’s.
Sure do... Now 280 Freepers strong. Wanna join?
Also I posted another article on this earlier this AM:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1912010/posts
God, I'll be shunned. O the horror. I was gifted today with a Starbucks stainless steel coffee mug and a pre-ordered family pack copy of 10.5 Leopard. Gasp!
The 24” iMac will blow you away.
do apple users lean left
and drive priuses?
Yes - please add me to your ping list. I’m thinking about getting an iMac 24 to replace my G4 PPC Mini. I have a Mini Stack firewire drive that should work well with Time Machine.
I do think the “family pack” of several copies of the OS is a good idea and better than the MS way of charging (extorting) for each and every copy of Windows.
Now if I could just get Starbuck’s to bring back my favorite Crandberry Orange loaf in the mornings.
Only when two legs of the chair have been sawed shorter. ;’)
Bill Gates definitely leans left.
There are tools and then there are tools...
There are tools that will get the job done:
Then there are tools that will also get the job done but are also a joy to use:
Like most craftsmen, I prefer to use beautiful, well designed, well built, elegant tools on my projects.
Full disclosure... I won a Gold Plated Stanley® Hammer in July 1978 from Mechanics Illustrated magazine. That hammer hangs on a plaque in my family room.
Sure talk dirty to me, and then don't post any pictures...
"Touched"... what, you played with one at the store? Quite frankly, your statement that Macs have "just as many issues or problems as Windows PC's" shows that you really have not used a modern Mac because it flies in the face of almost every Mac users' personal experiences.
As to speed, it depended on what you were doing, when, and the fact that Apple's processor upgrade calendar was slower than the multitude of PC makers who could slap the latest and fastest processor in to an off-the-shelf motherboard the day after it came out. Apple G5s were not "slower than most PC's"... at first they were faster than anything on the market and later they were still faster than MOST PCs but slower than a small number of high end PCs.
The few studies I've seen have found that the political persuasion of Mac users pretty much mirrors the general population's statistics.
The New York Times did an unscientific study and found that about 47% of self-identified Mac users were "conservative" while the balance were "left leaning". . . but this was merely a count of people on the NYT Blog responding to the question and was probably skewed by the NYT's own tendency to attract left leaning readers. It is also unknown as to how many of the posters were cross party posters... "Freeping" the poll, so to speak..,. either way.
Welcome to the Mac Ping list Ben... you are the 281st member.
Swordmaker
Thanks.
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