Newest known Tiger build: Mac OS X 10.4.3 8F8

[cybergoober]

While the Tiger builds have been fairly stable for the most part, they're nowhere near "ready for prime time". I think a January release is ludicrous. There's still substantial work to be done.

[blue&whiteman]

For me it feels like the system itself is quite stable, but some layers are being heavily worked on. Quartz Extreme, for example. So you get graphical glitches that might be annoying.

isn't "core image" the new quartz extreme pretty much? from what I have read it seems exactly like that. sorta like quartz extreme on steroids with image edit plugins thrown in.

[fryke]

Hmm... I don't think core image replaces QE. Flashing Aqua 'okay' buttons are certainly not in core image's area, unless i'm wrong.

[fryke]

Safari defaults to www.apple.com/startpage now, btw.

[cybergoober]

Safari defaults to www.apple.com/startpage now, btw.

I don't think that's confined to Safari 2.0 in Tiger.

See here

[fryke]

You're right, livepage.apple.com now links to apple.com/startpage... Didn't catch that...

[blue&whiteman]

Hmm... I don't think core image replaces QE. Flashing Aqua 'okay' buttons are certainly not in core image's area, unless i'm wrong.

but why have 2 features that both draw power/speed from the same video card? they would slow each other down since they both pretty much just run on the video card. its logical to say that qe will eventually be phased out since the new technology could take care of both duties more efficient than 2 would.

think I read about this on applefritter somewhere. I will try and find this.

[fryke]

Hm? Not at all. You also have Quartz Extreme, Quartz, OpenGL and other stuff all working with the same graphics card. But as far as I know, core-image and core-video are not at the same level as Quartz and Quartz Extreme. So they don't replace each other, rather one is used for a specific set of functions and other for something else...