Apple previews next version of Mac OS X

Reuters | June 28, 2004

[Woahhs]

Much like with everything else Microsoft produces, I'll wait until it's done before I decide whether or not to agree with their public statements.

Better wait a little longer than that; Microsoft has a little trouble distinguishing between beta-testers and customers.

[Havoc]

That's part of why Daimler is going linux - no viruses.. lol

Got r00t?

[Terpfen]

"Better wait a little longer than that; Microsoft has a little trouble distinguishing between beta-testers and customers."

Well, with their operating systems, sure. But they make excellent hardware, and the software they publish for third parties is usually of the highest quality with regards to bug fixes. Of course... it's sad when something like Age of Empires II has less bugs than the third commercially-available version of a core OS build that's been out for a good decade (I'm referring to WinXP, of course).

[dennisw]

Yes, there is the Miglia PCI tuner card, or the El Gato Firewire solution. BUT...they don't do HDTV, just old-fashioned NTSC. 

Thanks for cluing me in

 Right now my dual G5 is pretty darn quiet, thanks to 9 (!) slow rotating fans.

Apple now has some heat pipe or liquid cooled processor computer.

Check this Sony which I think is designed for heavy duty work and has been made very quiet with liquid cooled processor and other tricks

I often go here for silent PC information and forums. I have a lot of quiet Panasonic fans.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/

 

[Yossarian]

I spoke too quickly: Elgato just announced the EyeTV 500, an HDTV firewire tuner box, for $300.

My preference still is an ATI x800 based All-in-Wonder, if they'll ever be made. The new Image Units and Video Units technology in Tiger can offload processing tasks to the video circuitry. The power of the x800 could be put to use far beyond just games and TV.

Anyone have a contact at ATI that can be bribed or blackmailed into releasing a Mac All-in-Wonder?!?

[Swordmaker]

OS X Tiger Ping.

If you want to be included on the Macintosh Ping List, Freepmail me.

If, for some strange reason, you want to be removed from the Ping list, do the same...

Swordmaker

[Swordmaker]

The New iChat AV window... virtual conferencing in 3D:

[lainde]

bttt

[lainde]

OOooooh Goody. I can't wait!

[Swordmaker]

THe difference between the old and the new video compression technique:

Much more detail!

[Dont Mention the War]

I personally wouldn't buy one until they get some HDTV capability into that beast.

EyeTV 500

The EyeTV 500 digital video recorder for digital terrestrial television (ATSC) lets you watch, record, timeshift, edit and archive free over-the-air HDTV and digital standard-definition television (SDTV) on your Mac. Pause live television, rewind, fast-forward - all in crystalline digital quality. The EyeTV 500 is the first high-definition television (HDTV) Mac solution of its kind.

$299 intro special until July 5th. :)

[OKSooner]

Later read.

[nerdwithamachinegun]

No.

X is a Roman Numeral.

However, Y Windows is apparently the next version of X Windows.......

[af_vet_rr]

One of the things that has drawn me to OS X, and which keeps me there - they are not rebuilding the system on every release, to the extent it slows down. They keep improving performance, to the point where every .1 release since 10.0 has ran faster and faster on the exact same machine. Can't say that about Windows (and definitely not about Longhorn).

[af_vet_rr]

Right now my dual G5 is pretty darn quiet, thanks to 9 (!) slow rotating fans.

The new liquid-cooled setup they have for the new G5s was partially designed to lower the noise. From what I've read (anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong), they had no problems with a heatsink/fan solution, but somebody felt it was too noisy, and liquid cooling would be much quieter.

[af_vet_rr]

My preference still is an ATI x800 based All-in-Wonder, if they'll ever be made. The new Image Units and Video Units technology in Tiger can offload processing tasks to the video circuitry. The power of the x800 could be put to use far beyond just games and TV.

I picked up a Canopus ADVC-100 to convert a lot of home movies and VHS over to DVD. Not quite as full-featured as an ATI AIW-based solution in regards to using it like a TIVO/PVR device, but if your looking to convert analog media (or digital for that matter) it's a great little tool (albeit pricey at @$275)for importing into DV for iMovie and iDVD.

It can be used as a TIVO/PVR style device, it just takes a bit more manual control and doesn't automatically encode it on the fly (an hour of DV takes up about 13G of HDD space) although I believe it can be converted on the fly with one or two extra steps or other utils.