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Metacell wrote:

Pariah wrote:

On the whole I like OSX, quite alot actually, as far as I am concerned it is by far the best OS available. But the MacOS has always been the best.

Just to be a wiseass, I'll interject that AmigaOS was light years ahead of Mac OS, at leas until version 7 (and still ahead in multitasking and memory management until OS X).  And I'm supposing you're leaving out all the pro *NIX systems.

Yes, if Amiga had stayed in business, I might not be here using this forum! When I finally decided that my Tandy (aka Radio Shack) CoCo (Color Computer) running Microware OS-9 with Multi-Vue (an early windowing system or GUI), which was no longer officially supported, wouldn't carry me well into the future, I settled on Amiga as the best replacement. Unfortunately, sometime in 1992, the Amiga disappeared from retailer shelves.  IMHO, OS-9 was light years ahead of both MS-DOS / Windows 3 and Mac OS (prior to OS X). The system was fully preemptive multitasking, reentrant code and very fast.

So, in late '92, I got my first Mac, a Performa 600CD. For currently offered systems, I  definitely agree that Mac OS X is the very best!

I'm upgrading from Panther to Leopard. I never used Tiger, so I think it'll be a bit more interesting for me to make the change. From what I've seen so far, the overall design of the OS and being able to use the latest version of my favorite freeware programs makes it worth it. I've been wanting to use Songbird and Inkscape but they don't run on Panther. So really I'm just happy to have the latest version.

Looking forward to a new feature that most people arent talking about. It's a new Apple security technology called ASLR which randomly arranges the positions of key data areas. You thought it was hard to get malware and viruses in OS X before? Leopard now notches that up and makes it 100 times harder

Another reason IMO why OS X is superior to windows, and always will be. Leopard is light years ahead of anything else on the market. A true bargain at 129.00

MyMac8MyPC wrote:

Tickle-Me-Eric wrote:

As a Mac Consultant who has to support others, Time-Warp is #1.  Setting up a quick, easy back-up solution will be fantastic...

I certainly hope you're being a nice Mac consultant and explaining to all of those nice people that Time Machine only makes “temporal” backups, and not bootable backups

You are correct, I am warning people of Time Machine's short-comings, but you  have to realize that for my non-business clients (all my business clients have a real back-up system run off a server of some-kind or another) this is pretty much a "something" vs. nothing situation.  So trust me, even just being able to go back and easily retrieve an accidentally deleted term paper, or photo will save me about 100 "WHERE is my [insert file name and/or type here]?" calls a year. This will definitely make my life easier by at least having something in place for my "cheaper" or "less techno-savvy" clients...  Although I try to get rid of my "cheap" clients    Despite recommending several different back-up solutions to any and all of my clients, the private ones seem to never follow through with actually having me set it up or take my advice on this until they experience a catastrophic loss of data.  However, when Apple starts saying something is worth doing, my clients seem a little more ready to jump aboard and spend a little extra or take my advice when it echoes something they read at Apple.com or saw at the Apple Store when they bought thier Mac.

edited to hide my 3rd grade level grammer

Last edited by Tickle-Me-Eric (2007-10-22 1:39 pm)

Tickle-Me-Eric wrote:

the private ones seem to never follow through with actually having me set it up or take my advice on this until they experience a catastrophic loss of data.

Boy oh boy do I ever understand that It gets frustrating at times. Hopefully Leopard will take some of that stress out of your life

frankly wrote:

This is a nice security feature but it is my understanding that Vista has a similar feature.

Really? Do you know what it's called? The only thing that I'm aware of in vista is a revised shell namespace which protects against program spoofing, but that is different than Apples ASLR.

Thanks Frank

frankly wrote:

MyMac8MyPC wrote:

frankly wrote:

This is a nice security feature but it is my understanding that Vista has a similar feature.

Really? Do you know what it's called? The only thing that I'm aware of in vista is a revised shell namespace which protects against program spoofing, but that is different than Apples ASLR.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1969505,00.asp

Thanks dude. Posted my links before I saw your post with the info.

The first post got all mine pretty much.

I'm just glad I'm finally getting a Mac Pro, I've been waiting over, god three years now?  Because everytime I was going to get one, Apple announced something, but now that I sold my old iMac and just have a black Macbook, and Leopard is coming, Leopard + ATIx1900 + dual 3.0 Ghz + 2gigs ram will be more than I need for a long while.

And time machine I could have used awhile ago heh

ScifiterX wrote:

I highly doubt the Leopard Finder is Carbon. It's supposed to be Universal Binary which means the code had to be converted from Carbon to Cocoa in order to be used.

Then again unless some developer breaks NDA, I'm guessing we wait for the launch to find out for sure.

Hmm?  Apps don't have to be Cocoa to be UB.  The Finder has always been Carbon and it really doesn't look like Apple did the necessary from-scratch rewrite that would be required to make a Cocoa finder.

iTunes and Adobe CS 3 are both UB, Carbon apps.

[edited because I said "it really don't look like..." and I am not yet willing to concede that I have become a redneck]

Last edited by Daniel (2007-10-23 10:07 am)

Actually I figured it was both but I latched on to the first of the two things I could think of at the time. I still feel given the general preference for using Cocoa for UB & 64 bit, the likelihood of a Carbon Finder is still than the likelihood a Cocoa Finder, though given Daniel's examples I'll admit it's possible Apple isn't going to reduce that Carbon footprint yet.