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- luchid, on 11/14/2007, -6/+28Fix for Leopard= 1 Week
Fix for Vista = Unknown (When does SP1 come out again?) - gtluke, on 11/14/2007, -10/+22where is that mac commercial where they whine about windows updates and fixes when you need it.
- inactive, on 11/14/2007, -7/+19Well, that particular issue doesn't affect me because I've always been a copy and paste guy, but I'm happy is going to be fixed at any rate.
Lots of people were complaining about the bugs on Leopard, which aren't any different than what happened with Tiger when it was released. But fanboys were trying desperately to compare Leopard to Vista. The difference between the problems in Vista and the problems in Leopard is, you're not going to be waiting for close to a year for a Service Pack. Apple is likely to release this fairly soon, although personally, I haven't had any problems with my install... yet.
I also want to be fair by mentioning that XP had lots of driver issues when it came out. I remember because I was still a Windows user back then. The difference though, is that XP was a lot better than Windows 98 or ME, but I really don't see the benefit of Vista yet. I'm currently dual booting in XP when I want to play games. - Iwantawii, on 11/13/2007, -0/+11I hope the also highly publicized Airport Router craptasticism is fixed. My experience has shown me a fairly solid wireless connection, but completely useless attached USB hard disk.
- streak, on 11/14/2007, -0/+10It was previously reported build 9B13 already fixed that bug.
- chrisinsocalif, on 11/13/2007, -1/+11I had some information on that, but I seemed to have lost the data.
- Retnuh730, on 11/13/2007, -2/+11Yeah, they should focus on Airport updates. I have to manually restart the airport whenever I wake from sleep because it can't find my network (hidden), and it wont see any machines on my network without me manually typing the IP address.
- lordsandwich, on 11/13/2007, -1/+9It's much faster according to most user reports (including myself). There's one difference. :)
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 11/13/2007, -0/+8Macs cost the same (or less) than similarly equipped Windows machines.
- starlord1, on 11/13/2007, -0/+8Pah. Apple don't charge for maintenance releases. In fact between 10.0 and 10.1 they didn't charge for the upgrade to Puma.
- threemagic, on 11/13/2007, -0/+8In my opinion windows needs to let go of the past and do a 9 to 10 upgrade. They are trying to do a 9 to 10 upgrade and still be able to run 9 stuff. Apple did it by just emulation...
That said.. Apple's 9-10 upgrade was HUGE but also took until 10.2.8 to be finally stable and good. - threemagic, on 11/13/2007, -0/+8I got my mac pro (dual xeon 5150's) for LESS than what the comparable workstation was at Dell..
- cakestick, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7My solution was to just pull the Dashboard clock onto the desktop. It stays above all your apps though..
Open terminal, enter following command:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES; killall Dock
Dock will restart. Press F12 to enter dashboard, click and hold on the clock, and then F12 to bring it out on the desktop. Voila! - DagMX, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7nothing really. It just doesn't work the way people would prefer it to.
The main problem is that its forced onto all folders in the dock and doesn't have the option to have a permanent icon so for example, your application icon would always be whatever is first oin your apps folder.
Its not broken in the sense of bein broken, but a few facets were poorly thought out. - MacParrot, on 11/13/2007, -2/+9Yes they do. As do computers running Windows and Linux. Don't try so hard to be an ass.
- dagamer34, on 11/14/2007, -0/+7Have you been living under a rock?
- threemagic, on 11/13/2007, -0/+7Also look at similar models don't just look at bottom line. Just because they don't sell celeron models to bottom feeders doesn't mean they are more expensive.. just means they choose to sell value. People who look at things by price only will never understand. These are the people that go buy a 50" tv at walmart cuz it's on sale for 700 instead of noticing that it's 480p and the bulb in it dies every 2 years... had they spent 500 or 600 more they could have gotten 1080p with a much higher backlight life... meaning the overall value is better on the expensive televion.. I don't like throwing money away.
- ipodgr, on 11/13/2007, -3/+10Well im not suprised about that, but always good to hear ...
- comradeTJH, on 11/13/2007, -1/+8They stole your watch?
- Francky, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6Well it's not that they are broken, it's just that they don't have the option of letting folders in the docks act like before, like a lot of people liked. That and the fact that they icon for each stack changes to reflect what was last placed in each folder... which basically looks like crap. Again, an option to have it simply show the actual folder icon should be available.
- HolyChimp, on 11/14/2007, -4/+10Because there haven't been any updates or fixes released for Vista yet?
Comparing the OS X and Windows update cycles doesn't work. They both seem to follow different approaches to updates. - bigsteve, on 11/13/2007, -0/+6I don't see an ad on that page about updates...
...because they're a good thing.
On any platform. Who diggs these comments up? Who *are* these people? - noahhoward, on 11/13/2007, -1/+7Relative to the options yes they are still perfect for many people relative to absolute perfection, no of course not.
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Just that some people would like to have the option to open the docked folders in the finder instead of on a stack.
Personally, I love stacks, but it would have cost Apple nothing to include that option. - MacBandit, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Do you have the correct ports open on your router?
- MacBandit, on 11/14/2007, -1/+6Is this what was wrong with my Gmail IMAP?
- Bob042, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5For what it's worth, here's a page explaining how to put a transparent icon in front of stacks. You could probably put an opaque icon there if you want to also.
http://t.ecksdee.org/post/19001860 - Cayfox, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5If you've still got your Tiger install CD/DVD, maybe this tip will help you get your clock back:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20071 ... - threemagic, on 11/13/2007, -1/+63x as much? Were you frozen in ice for the past 20 years?
- zigspective, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5The only reason they are probably saying it is because when Mac releases a new OS like Tiger or Leopard, the Windows crowd tries to say it's just a service pack. So Apple people feel the need to have to go out of their way to point out that yes, they get free updates too.
- moofer, on 11/13/2007, -1/+6It's a 64 bit OS that screams over it's predecessor, plus the ability to instantly preview a document's contents without opening it, and the built-in remote desktop capabilities alone make it worth my while.
- nygscott, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5I agree, I haven't been able to connect to my wireless network period, my Mac Book Pro running Tiger works fine.
- noahhoward, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5Spoken like someone who's never even touched a Mac.
- clockdist, on 11/13/2007, -0/+5What's wrong with the menu bar?
- zigspective, on 11/13/2007, -1/+5How is this a critical bug? This isn't some security issue. If you are busy interrupting your complete file transfers, you might loose data. Unless they are always Mr. Indecisive I can't see people running into this problem too often. Obviously an oversight that certainly needs to be fixed but not critical.
- noahhoward, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4I haven't tried Leopard yet, what exactly is broken in stacks?
- Bitaemo, on 11/13/2007, -0/+4Has anyone else had issues with 10.5 and mounting of NTFS drives? I have not been able to mount my external USB drive since updating to 10.5. For a while there even my Bootcamp partition was disappearing and reappearing at random (Which I solved with a edit to fstab). However, no matter what I try, I cannot mount my USB drive. Disk Utility sees the drive no problem, but says the system has no access to mount it. Please fix this Apple. :-(
- BobOki, on 11/13/2007, -3/+7It "just works" still, just with a few bugs.
I think the "just works" points to the no bluescreen, just working machine, not "bug-free".
p.s. XP/Vista has this same bug, and xp has had it since launch. - danasghar, on 11/13/2007, -2/+5you forget to add an extra 100 bucks for every copy of XP
- MacParrot, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3Soooo, Apple should sell a Pentium 4 Mac that you wouldn't buy anyway?
- SteveMax, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4Are you saying that they were running the main OS under Rosetta? The fact that uname -a reported Darwin name 8.7.x Darwin Kernel Version 8.x.x: Day Mon N HH:MM:SS PDT 200x; root:xnu-*.obj~2/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386 possibly means something ;-)
- MacParrot, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3And your spamming ass has been reported
- MacBandit, on 11/13/2007, -0/+3I had this problem on first install but simply deleted the Airport Keychain and logged directly into the airport and turned ssid broadcasting back on. Then I reconfigured the airport on my MacBook and once I had a wireless connection reconnected to the base statiion this time wirelessly and turned off ssid broadcasting. Now all is happy and has been since the first install a few weeks ago.
- BobOki, on 11/13/2007, -1/+4Anyone hear if this fix will include correction to IMAP accounts connecting to Mdaemon servers? (currently it has an error and hangs the connection to those servers making IMAP to them impossible).
- clockdist, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Actually, you do need a pretty powerful machine for basic web-browsing/word-processing/spreadsheets these days, because of how bloated a certain company's Office Suite apps are...
- zigspective, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Well actually I don't find it too bad at all here in Canada and I know someone who actually bought a MacPro in China because they could get for such a great price there.
- Wander2000, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2There's an easy way to get the folders on the dock working like before, it's so simple I'm surprised others haven't figured it out yet! Just go to your home directory, or wherever the folder that you want on your dock is locked. Then make an alias of the folder you want. Copy the alias to the dock and you'll see the folder just like it used to be.
- bcorder, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2I was moving a few things the other day to an external drive and got a kernel panic in the middle of the transfer... Poof, no more data and a corrupted volume header to boot. Ugg. A clean install of Leopard seems to have cleansed my soul temporarily.
- udahlen, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2No, it doesn't work. A click will open the folder in the Finder, but what most people want is the click-and-hold that produced a menu of all the files in the folder. This will not happen in Leopard.
- DiggLive, on 11/14/2007, -0/+2It was easy for Apple to do that because they didn't have huge market share when going from 9 to 10. If Microsoft broke compatibility, think about the millions of CDs that run software on Windows. What's awesome about the Windows world is that you can take a 10,000 games CD bought in 1995 for $5 or so and still run it on Vista. Apple has it easy because they don't have to worry about being mainstream and supporting their OSes for as long as Microsoft does.
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