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- kajoob, on 10/31/2007, -9/+46Wah wah wah, too much iphone. Wah wah wah, too much Leopard. You know what?
1. Click on "My Profile"
2. Click the "Settings" tab
3. See "Customize Topics"? Go ahead and click that too
4. We're almost there!
5. Now, uncheck the "Apple" topic
6. Now click "Save Changes"
7. You did it, those pesky Apple stories will no longer annoy you!
There, fixed. Now go away. - orangesoda, on 10/31/2007, -13/+36Definitely time to upgrade to a Mac...I've waited long enough.
- defectDS, on 10/29/2007, -3/+17You obviously weren't around for the Vista launch.
- fugazied, on 11/01/2007, -1/+14I got my first mac in August. I use it for programming, design, chatting, general web surfing, music and movies mainly. No games on it atm.
And from my last few months using it, I am pissed about one thing.. That I didn't abandon windows years ago when OS X first launched. Its sweeeeeeet and the way computers should operate in 2007+ era :) Vista/XP is a nunber of years behind OS X in terms of usability/stability/eye candy and genius NEW ideas for making computer usage easier. - MagicCake, on 10/31/2007, -5/+11"Sammy Keyes (sammykeyes)
A male from Santa Martina, CA"
From "her" profile :) - Swift2, on 10/28/2007, -0/+5So, you're asking people to edit what they're concerned about at any given taste because YOU think there's too much coverage. Next, you'll write a letter to the editor and threaten to cancel your subscription! But this is Digg, not the Diggsville News and Cattle Sales. People are interested, at any given time, in what they're interested in. It does not good to scold from the sidelines. Just don't digg the stories.
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Apple would have a revolt on their hands if they made any revolutionary departures from Tiger. Apple biggest strength is its ability to get the fundamental UI right on the first try, and it's important. It's very difficult to make large-scale changes to a broken UI once it's been released. So much software is bad because of poor design decisions made early on.
Tiger and Panther seemed almost identical on the surface. Yet, after a few months of using Tiger and going back to Panther, it seems almost primitive in comparison.
The vast performance improvements in Spotlight, Finder, and Safari alone makes the upgrade worth it. And there are coutless little features to discover. For example (I just found out this morning), the standard Open File dialog includes access to your iPhone, iTunes, and iMovie libraries. Cool!
Of course, there's nothing wrong with Tiger, and an upgrade isn't absolutely necessary until you need to use software that only runs on Leopard. On the other hand, if you wait a year to get Leopard you're not actually saving any money, you're just going a year without the latest, greatest software (unless there's a reason you can't run Leopard). You also lose more than the cost of Leopard if you try to sell your MacBook without it. - orph3us, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4just installed leopard and it's alright, but it's definitely as Walt Mossberg said more evolutionary than revolutionary. I like the new network prefs and look of everything and spaces implementation is top notch. But frankly, its not a big upgrade. Most people would be fine sticking to tiger. Leopard killed Sidetrack, a trackpad driver I use to customize and put scrolling and button presses to the pad and I have been having problems with my wireless network periodically dying which never happened with Tiger (no changes made to the wireless network itself) .. Leopards nice, its just not a huge leap. That said, there are probably some things I haven't noticed yet. Network shares are better, sidebar is nice, 3d dock sucks (i returned it to 2d). I like it, but It's not huge. That said, I guess OS X didn't need a huge upgrade, it was already very good. This is a refining release. Hopefully that wireless problem I'm having is an aberration or possibly it can be patched quickly. Thats my mini review.
- superkendall, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4This is just a side effect of how Digg works though. A few hundred users think this story is cool, a few hundred more think that story is cool and miss the other one. So a bunch of somewhat related hot stories spring up at once. To not like it is to dislike the very foundation on which Digg is built.
- datdamonfoo, on 10/29/2007, -3/+7Poor girl. She must be confused.
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -1/+5My experience is that you spend your time finding new features, and going, "Huh! Why didn't they do that before?" And then, "Why don't they all do it this way?" I'm sure there will be fixes for the Time Machine graphics with the Starfield sooner or later. Any road graphic will do.
Face it, OS X is now officially mature. 64-bit through and through. Some of the new security features are killer, like relocating the stack with every boot. And I had no idea that DEP has been enabled since 10.4.9. - mlostracco, on 10/27/2007, -1/+5My Leopard menu bar is solid, not transparent. Either the version with the translucent bar is chip/graphics card dependent, or all these people still talking about the translucent menu bar today are using a torrent/pre-GM build.
- MagicCake, on 10/27/2007, -3/+6Did you seriously just ask who hasn't gotten a Mac? They're gaining popularity, but... I mean, come on...
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3Its very subjective - i really like it, especially the reflection of the mac doc at the bottom.
- ItsMyWii, on 10/28/2007, -1/+4The new dock isn't that bad.
- mrgoat, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3That's a brilliantly insightful post. Well done you.
- mrBitch, on 11/01/2007, -0/+2Bingo ! - same here. I used to bash on OSX just because it came from Apple - you could say I was an MS fan boy. I only got a MacBook Pro because of the safety net of being able to dual boot to Windows ( via boot-camp ) in case I found I couldn't find any alternative software on OSX that did the same things I was used to on Windows.
I found that not only did OSX have everything ( cd ripping, dvd ripping, dvd burning, avi / mpg / mp4 encoding, free development environment with a nice IDE, and compiler, etc. ) that I used to use on Windows, but the big surprise was that the OSX equivalent open source software is actually more stable, and works with a far better designed UI than most of the commercial software available on Windows.
I now only boot to Windows to play games - as that is the only thing that I now use Windows for. Games is all Windows is really good for any more.
Everything else is OSX all the way ( I actually had to shrink my Windows partition down to 15 gig - as the only games I play at the moment are TF2, portal, and HL2 ep2. ( which the MacBook Pro renders at a beautifully smooth 1440 x 900 wide-screen resolution ) - rupertmorris, on 10/29/2007, -18/+20It'll die down. In the meantime, us mac nerds are pretty stoked.
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2If you have two copies, you can keep one and sell the other. Why the hell not? There's no serial numbers, folks. Your computer has Leopard -- you're registered. No 25-character codes to get from an operator in Rancipur when you've used up your "authorized" installs, either. You are on an honor system to buy the "Family" copy, though, if you install it on more than one computer.
- Billions, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Warning, 'Rebel' alert!
- vinecrawler, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2gimme one
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Depends on your processor. It will work just like Coverflow in iTunes. And of course, you don't have to use it at all.
- antitab, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2The coverflow fonts screenshot they show is only half the story – this is what happens if you wait a second and allow the current font to load:
http://mike.command-q.org/img/fonts.png - psychosaif, on 10/29/2007, -0/+1They forgot about the new itunes Visualizations!! I like the sperm one personally.
- orph3us, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Why the hell didn't they include pages for grid view of folders of the dock? Reveal in finder is the only option to display the remaining files after the grid has reached its max size and if it doesnt display all... anyone know of a way to make it have pages? Hope someone releases a mod to do that.
- boyced, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1anyone know if unlocked iphones work ok with leopard?
- aussieNickuss, on 10/28/2007, -5/+6Now I can't say much because I haven't actually used Leopard yet, but from the piles of screenshots I have seen, I'm really disliking the look of the new menu bar. I thought the OSX menu bar after it had lost the pinstripes and gained the gloss in Tiger looked fantastic, but the semi transparent bar that makes the colours from your desktop picture look all pasty and awful, just isn't Apple-like IMHO.
- miniboss, on 10/27/2007, -2/+3The flood of stories is expected. The thing that irritates me most is the amount of "reputable" and influencial sites pouring out these "reviews" after only 2-6hrs of use. Yes, I know it's not actually a "review" but we all know that in this community then these first impressions will be quoted and linked for the next 4 years.
Sure, it's possible that Leopard is as perfect as everyone says but who really knows unless you give it a solid 2 weeks to beat it up. That's when the REAL journalists should be making their recommendations but instead we get people all hopped up on hype while frantically typing away. We're consumers and no consumer should buy into something because it's shiny and gives a good first impression. - avatarpalin, on 10/27/2007, -1/+2Join us man, like Fugazied I felt the same way... you find yourself saying the world "cool ' to thin air every now and then when you fnd something... well cool...
- pehpsi, on 10/27/2007, -2/+3The menu bar looks different depending on what desktop pic you have... And the 3D dock, I don't like which is why I have used the 2D dock, even at the bottom of the screen. I'm happy, and Leopard is pretty good. Aperture and PS CS3 are very fast also...
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Haha, you not the first to ask. I installed the one i bought so I'm guessing i can't re-sell it as its registered? And the developers version is pre-registered for me? (not sure would have to check it out when i get it in the mail tomorrow)
- BM5k, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1I haven't heard anyone else claim to not hate it. I think it looks pretty good. Too bad I'm stuck at work, and won't get my hands on my own copy till at least tomorrow :(
- Kelmon, on 11/07/2007, -0/+1I would not recommend upgrading until the new year. I bought it on Day 1 and there's a load of bugs, some of which are driving me nuts. The first patch is on it's way but I'm not sure how many bugs that this will nuke. Unless you absolutely have to have the new OS I sincerely recommend waiting as this release definitely seems to be buggier than either Panther or Tiger for me on a relatively new C2D MacBook Pro.
This is not to say that Leopard is a bad release. On the contrary, what's been delivered is damned right awesome at times. It's just that at the times when it's not awesome you'll end up cursing it. The first time Spaces goes nuts on you you'll know what I mean... - MtheoryX, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1I have admit, you are 100% correct on that one.
- Swift2, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1There are certain things that just get complained about by the first adopters. I've had a beta, and I haven't made up my mind yet. With some backgrounds, it's great. With others, sux. But I loke to change backgrounds every hour or so. I wish there was a way to go back; but I bet there will be, sooner or later, Apple or 3rd party. The Dock, by the way, if you put it anywhere but the bottom, is now 2D. So they were listening to feedback.
- inactive, on 10/27/2007, -1/+2No. 45 in queue in Singapore, bought it as no.12 (? - speed to the counter), installed my Leopard on site at only a few minutes past 6pm Singapore Time. Got my free leopard t-shirt and a bunch of other prizes that were given out. Super happy, love the speed! The only misery came today when i received an e-mail saying that as a developer i get it for free in the mail. So now got 2 beautiful copies of Leopard.
- orph3us, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1found a solution for people not being able to use their airport cards at all, doesnt fix wireless connections dropping, but anyway... delete AppleAirport2.kext from /System/Library/Extensions. Its an old tiger only used file and leopard doesnt use it at all.... link to thread here: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageI ...
- newbill123, on 10/27/2007, -1/+2It was in the "paid seed" secure download area (connect.apple.com). Dunno if it's still there or not though.
- undersky, on 10/27/2007, -2/+2u can't be serious.
- inactive, on 10/31/2007, -6/+6The Cult Of Apple
I Dedicate This Video To All The Apple Fanboys
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F9gdx_LIAc - mannymix03, on 10/27/2007, -12/+11why? if anyone remembers when vista came out it was the same thing and died down. Just because you are anti-apple dont act like its only "mac fanboys"
- superkendall, on 10/27/2007, -2/+1Do you judge everything by looking only at pictures?
- BrainInAJar, on 10/27/2007, -5/+4Anyone got a link to the read/write ZFS kext that evidently exists? ( the new one, version 1.1 iirc ). The command-line tools direct me to developer.apple.com, where it's nowhere to be found
- eggnet, on 10/27/2007, -3/+0It's not transparent, it's translucent with blurring.
Basically, it gives you a hint of what is behind it. Use a background with contrast at the top. - zonk3r, on 10/28/2007, -4/+1Try changing your background image. Against a dark image it doesn't have the transparency but against a lighter image it does... Nothing to do with hardware AFAIK.
- adila01, on 10/29/2007, -6/+2Don't worry about it, 50% is Linux anyways, so there is still plenty of great stuff out there
- chriskeyes, on 10/29/2007, -8/+4But there wouldn't be much to see on Digg every day - isn't 25% of the news contain at least the word Apple?
- chriskeyes, on 10/31/2007, -5/+1Mac losers. Seriously, you guys are awful. And I know you're proud of that.
So I'm going to bash some Macs right now for the fun of it. I don't care if I get dugg down. - quikboy, on 10/29/2007, -30/+26Why is everyone ranking her down? She's right. I too am tired of this.
We all know Leopard has come out. We know it comes with a few new improvements. There and done.
These stories have already hit the Digg front page, and the next few should just be considered duplicates. -
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