In 1996. - Page 4

dalo · #25 February 16th, 2006, 03:59 AM

Folk's, for the sake of argument and to maintain the quality of this board: We have different views of some tuff. Mainly because we're not sharing each others machines. That no criminal act, and there are parts of OS X that I too think is bloat, and there are things that I think are as far off to bloat as anything.

powermac · #26 February 16th, 2006, 08:23 AM

[quote=Lt Major Burns]i was thinking today that OSX is getting dated. they are resorting to tacking on the latest gimmicks instead of thinking them through properly. spotlight is the best example.

I can somewhat agree with this. As much as I love Tiger, it could be argued that many of the updates from Jag were gimmicks. In my view, spotlight is wonderful, and one of the brightest ideas in awhile, from any computer company.
I truly hope that Apple comes out with Leopard, and it has less gimmicks and more beef. As fryke stated, the Finder needs work, I hope Apple focuses on a refined Finder for future releases.
In case of Microsoft, I think in some ways they have buried themselves a deep hole with their technology for Windows. I was under the impression early on that Longhorn(vista) was going to be a totally new OS, with a fresh look & feel. As stated, and even from die-hard PC people, that Vista is just XP with some gimmicks. Hope this is not a trend for the computer industry!!

Lt Major Burns · #27 February 16th, 2006, 09:03 AM

we are actually forgetting of course, that apple added all these gimmicks to tiger to sell it. the real differences are underneath the hood, most of the gubbins underneath tiger are new, and very powerful. but that alone does not sell a product. Dashboard is a cool looking gimmick.

the biggest advance in OS's in the last 5 years has to be Exposé. it's just so innovative and completely useful.

Lt Major Burns · #28 February 16th, 2006, 09:05 AM

and the Finder doesn't need refining, it needs ripping out, and completely started afresh.

symphonix · #29 February 17th, 2006, 10:09 PM

To contribute ... and no, this screen shot isn't mine. Its pretty good that when browsing in Safari on a Mac, you can still get your registry scanned, eh?

symphonix · #30 February 17th, 2006, 10:14 PM

And this one, more in keeping with the theme, is pretty cool. Yes, it is genuine.

dalo · #31 June 14th, 2006, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

the real differences are underneath the hood, most of the gubbins underneath tiger are new, and very powerful. but that alone does not sell a product.

This is interesting. Why do you think this? Can you explain it further? The thought that came to my mind was actually that the Mac community pays more attention to beneath-hood changes than the "other" (eh) world.

Doesn't it sell? To whom does it not sell? To scrip kiddies emulating Tiger x86 in Vmware, or for servers running the server version of Tiger? There are differences there.

davebz · #32 June 15th, 2006, 12:20 AM

Looks like that user couldn't tell the difference between convolution and evolution. :-P

"Macintosh because you're too creative for Windows."

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