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- monkeyrun, on 10/17/2007, -0/+15"Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices" there
- ddegner, on 10/17/2007, -0/+7It's the little things that get me excited:
Application-Based Firewall
Stronger Encryption for Disk Images
New AirPort Menu
Icon Preview
Quick Look
Spaces
Calculations in Spotlight
Live Partition Resizing in Disk Utility
Grammar Check - airj1012, on 10/16/2007, -2/+9Sorry, link didn't work above - http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html "Even Leopard innovations have innovations."
- KSUdesigner, on 10/17/2007, -5/+11You should've just skipped the blog spam and linked directly to Apple to begin with. Oh wait, someone already beat you to that.
- cgomez, on 10/17/2007, -2/+7Meaning that it's extensible, easy access to internet content and of course, TV recording.
I'm a Mac fan, but c'mon, Front Row is no Media Center. - buddhistMonkey, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5He mentioned them at the Apple Developer Conference this summer: Stacks, Cover Flow in the Finder, and Quick Look, among others.
- Goobernutz, on 10/17/2007, -0/+4Believe it or not, "Path Bar" is what i'm looking forward to the most! That, and the tabbed terminal. But I have simple needs.
- v0yeur, on 10/18/2007, -0/+4/crosses fingers for 64-bit Vista/XP bootcamp drivers
- v0yeur, on 10/16/2007, -1/+5external HD on the airport base station is flaky anyway - I wouldn't trust it with important data.
- smrekar, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3Calculations in Spotlight is soo money!
I hate how the Calculator Widget from apple doesn't work on my Mac Pro and everytime i want to use it, i need to close it and re-open it. - smrekar, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3yeah, like when you are connected to a network computer and then they shut it down and then you have 2 minutes of beach ball before it recognizes it is gone?
- Kelmon, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3To a degree I do echo the sentiment. Of course, you and I both know what the Top Secret features are (buddhistMonkey has already outlined them) but I think that they were a little underwhelming. All things considered, I do think that Steve would have done better not to make mention of the Top Secret features at WWDC 2006 and then we probably would have been much more excited about the new Finder, for example, than we really are. They're all good additions but somehow I don't think they really warranted such a cryptic slide in the presentation that got us all building our expectations up too high.
- kelly, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4it was in reference to the interface... not to features.
In this area... media center fails miserably. - blackjack75, on 10/17/2007, -0/+3My top expected feature. Not having to kill the Finder each time a netwrok volumes becomes unavailable. It looks like they finally managed to move that to separate threads... pheew!
- joeycerone, on 10/17/2007, -1/+4none of the front row features listed are even new....
they are kind of stretching it with "300+ new features" - madmage, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Technically Front Row wasn't a part of Tiger, IE, it came with a new Mac, or you had to go through back channels to get it, so Front Row is new in the sense that it will be bundled in the retail OS.
- v0yeur, on 10/29/2007, -1/+3I guess I must have miraculously pulled an XP64 out of my ass, since I own a copy. It was part of an exchange program should you have purchased a 64bit AMD chip a few years ago.
why shoot off your mouth about things you aren't sure about? it's so much easier to just say "I don't know" - Kelmon, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2You'll also note a degree of double-counting going on. For example, the AppleScript section mentions "Scripting Bridge" and then it appears again (albeit from a slightly different angle) in the Unix section again. Seems a bit cynical to me but I'm not too bothered about it.
- SuperSunny, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Live Partition Resizing!??!! FINALLY! GAH I WAITED FOR THAT FOR SO LONG!
- moisie, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2That's probably why they only talked about 20 or so of them in detail then listed the rest on their website.
- dragon76, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2Like every release of a new OS, the majority of features are developer related. Look at the amazing things developers have done with Core Graphics, Core Image and Core Video. Core Animation is going to be incredible.
- smrekar, on 10/17/2007, -0/+2While Apple is known for Beta Testing on the consumers, I don't think it is anything that will kill you. My workflow benefited greatly from upgrading to tiger. Definately more than it was hindered by tiny bugs that existed. Of course, i am the IT guy, so if something was screwy, i could just format and reload. Some people, who need to wait on the IT guy at their jobs wouldnt want to have this approach.
- blackjack75, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Although I have not tried it I am pretty sure Time Machine just writes to any volume you might want to use. You might even backup to a ramdisk if you wish to.
- jeffchuck, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2Does anybody know if Time Machine will support FAT32 partitions? All of the 3rd party backup software I've tried only works with HFS+.
- kelly, on 10/16/2007, -1/+2"300+ New Features"
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html - yabos, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1It mounts over AFP so yes it technically acts the same as another Mac. The AEBS is supposedly running OS X anyways.
- dagamer34, on 10/17/2007, -2/+3Some of these features are kind of bogus. It's more like 20 features worth talking about and 280 pieces of app functionality. Regardless though, there are some serious gems and surprises. Definitely, the integration of Google Maps searching straight from your address book, Wikipedia dictionary, and data mining in Mail is stuff worth giving credit for.
- MacParrot, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I'm going to get 10.5 when it comes out (only because I'll be writing about it) but won't install it on my main machine until the first round of updates comes out. Like software from any vendor right out of the gate, don't trust mission critical machines to it until the first (or possibly second) round of bug fixes comes out.
- Kelmon, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1This is indeed true with the current firmware (7.2.1, I believe). However, if you have the option to then downgrading to 7.1.1 definitely improves the situation. I was having enormous problems with the last update with my disk disconnecting such that I needed to restart the base station. However, downgrading to 7.1.1 resolved the situation and backups to and from the Air Disk have been going great for the past month or so. Certainly I am going to be using this solution with Time Machine.
If you don't know how to downgrade your Airport Extreme do the following: Open the Airport Utility, double-click your base station and, from the Summary tab, select Version and then 7.1.1 from the dialog that appears. - listrophy, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1Unflakify your AEBS: change the IPv6 setting to "Local" (from http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageI ... )
I can't confirm that this works, but I will definitely be trying it tonight. - superpixel, on 10/17/2007, -6/+7except that they spoke directly to someone at Apple and got their response, not just what is on that page. ok, to be fair, Brian didn't stray far from the publicly facing knowledge, but to offhandedly call it blog spam becuase you have some grudge against Engadget... oh, wait. digg. right. yeah. carry on. par for the course. back to Dora the Explorer kiddos!
- smrekar, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1I think it doesnt allow permissions & journaling. I would be more upset about ZFS Read Only support.
- kelly, on 10/17/2007, -8/+9WTF?
"too bad the [interface of front row is] still not more like Media Center."
If engadget hadn't lost its credibility many other times before with outrageous comments... this alone would have done it for me. - dragon76, on 10/16/2007, -0/+1No, you have use HFS+. There are special things about HFS+ that make Time Machine possible that FAT32 does not support. I am not saying HFS+ is the only file system where it could be possible but it's NOT possible with FAT32.
- kelly, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2Software update will deliver them.
- listrophy, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2An AEBS with external hard drive is:
-Not another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing
-Not Leopard Server,
-Not an Xsan storage device. - Billistic, on 10/16/2007, -2/+2Yeah I was wondering that too...
- Topher06, on 10/17/2007, -0/+0Leopard will be Tiger's best patch yet.
- listrophy, on 10/17/2007, -8/+5I don't mean to be alarmist, but the feature list for Time Machine seems to indicate that the required external drive be directly connected to the Mac. In other words, it looks like I can't use Time Machine with a hard drive connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station. That's... disturbing. From the site:
"You can designate just about any HFS+ formatted FireWire or USB drive connected to a Mac as a Time Machine backup drive. Time Machine can also back up to another Mac running Leopard with Personal File Sharing, Leopard Server, or Xsan storage devices." - dragon76, on 10/29/2007, -5/+1There's no version of XP that is 64 bit, in fact, there's no consumer 64 bit version of Windows, period. Does BootCamp support XServe? I've never checked.
- mozzep, on 10/17/2007, -9/+4whatever happened to the "top secret" features that Jobs referred to, but neglected to mention in detail?
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