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How bout a POS Mac that runs half the speed of my G5.

Do you really think that a company who managed to keep it not only internal, but SECRET for five years is going to be that vulnerable to a leak? I'm willing to bet only a few select people at Apple can even get their hands on it. The fact that it was nothing but unconfirmed rumors since 10.0...

I hope they've removed "designed for microsoft windows" from their latest chips, is all i have to say.

Yes, I watched his keynote. He stated quite clearly that the transition would be complete by 2007, which means no more PPC products - the processor will be end-of-life.

It's not the Intel processor that lead me to ditch Apple. In fact my good riddance letter mentioned nothing about technical issues (although there are plenty). I am ditching Apple for the reasons I stated in my letter - they have consistently and outwardly lied to their customers (as recent as...

Performance per Watt...so what you're saying is that you're willing to live with a system that runs at half the speed of a PowerPC as long as it runs cooler? It must be what you're saying, since the G5 allegedly runs twice the speed of these high end Xeons. Who cares if they run cooler. They...

Anyone who says they bought a Mac for the outstanding operating system doesn't quite know what they're talking about. OSX is just barely out of its infancy. The Mach kernel has just recently (as of Tiger) received an overhaul that makes it "not a piece of crap", such as better locking and...

Which chips are you referring to? Intel's Xeon chips, whose ass the PowerPC has shown to kick repeatedly, according to Apple's website? Or are you referring to their miserably failed attempts to break into the 64-bit desktop computing market? Since developer hardware is available (well, in two...

Well here's my good riddance letter http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/apple.html

I still can't get over the fact that there's some valid reason to run windows [anything] on your mac. If it won't compile in *nix and it doesn't have an OSX build, it aint worth your time.

It's posted on macosxhints.com

Widgets aren't forced to sleep, they just have a function that gets called when hidden. It's up to the widget whether to fall asleep or not. In fact, I've made a small modification to the weather widget so it'd update in the background while I was working. This means a malicious widget could do...

Hmm is there a way to edit the safe files list, I wonder.

I wouldn't say it was plugged in 10.4.1, at least adequately. Safari now asks you if you want to download the application. It says nothing about running it...so your choice is to either not download it, or download+install it. That seems pretty asinine to me. I don't think anyone's trying to...

It looks like c|net thought this was important enough to write an article about: http://news.com.com/Widget+security+worries+dog+Apple/2100-1002_3-5715752.html?part=rss&tag=5715752&subj=news Lets hope that Apple decides to do something constructive and fix it.

Apps could do the same thing, but widgets I feel are a higher risk, because: 1. Nobody suspects javascript to be able to execute binaries (they were given an interface in widgets) 2. Widgets run in the background for the duration of the user's session 3. The dashboard is generally not...

Well it wasn't a concern with panther, which is why I suspect nobody bothered with it. It seems rather asinine to make developers have to further optimize their applications to run on Tiger.

So why are you responding to this thread if it's futile? Apple works for us. If enough people agree this memory management approach sucks, there's a chance they'll change it.

I think part of the problem is that the Dock probably uses the same tty as everything else running in the gui portion of the system. Being part of the dock seems dumb to me, as I'd think everything you launched off the doc would have it as a parent (including widgets). But why have a grace...

I'm still wondering why you think the inactive list is a bad thing. Apps get memory off the list as they need it. It's not expensive to pull it off the list. One pull may not be too expensive, but most applications don't allocate everything they need on startup. If you're thinking in terms...