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- Delta009, on 11/03/2008, -34/+86Top 1000 OS X features Windows 7 should copy.
- terrablebyte, on 11/03/2008, -3/+522 pages for 5 items = buried
- Pliep, on 11/03/2008, -19/+52Multi touch is already in Mac OS X 10.5 on the new (and older) MacBook and MacBook Pro. It's multi-touch up to four fingers performing various tasks on the trackpad.
If you mean multi-touch on a desktop display that Windows 7 has: that is idiotic and useless. How on earth are you going to work on your computer with one arm stretched out all day to touch the screen? One arm on the mouse, one arm on the keyboard, and one arm stretched out to multi-touch? Microsoft is doing it again: stealing features from others and implementing them the wrong way. - inactive, on 11/03/2008, -6/+36--multitouch: is in leopard 10.5.2 and above
--taskbar: leopard has stuff that fans out in a row too, and the dock is also a task bar. Also, OS X has preview, which does the rest of what's described here
--libraries: Nice, Microsoft has re-invented the "soft link" again and this time given it an even better name
--media center: interesting, front row actually does everything that the author claims it doesn't.
--device stage: Umm...you know, "get info" really does show a lot of information about anything that has an icon in OS X.
Again, more misinformation from some jackass who's not actually looked at OS X long enough to know what it does.
Next. - abbathdoom, on 11/03/2008, -11/+28The idea that anyone should copy Media Player is a joke, that app is the biggest piece of junk out there. I had the misfortune of trying to sync my Mums mp3 player with it and it was vile. Even the 3rd tier media apps on Linux that no one actually uses are better than Media Player.
- overt, on 11/03/2008, -0/+16"TG Daily
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Maybe if you used one page this wouldnt happen you greedy bastards. - AnthonyJr, on 11/03/2008, -2/+171. Multi-touch: Apple has already implemented this into their trackpads using a much simpler form. I'd rather not have to reach over to touch my screen for anything. Considering Apple controls the majority of Multi-Touch patents... Good luck getting creative!
2. Taskbar: No, no! Expose > Live Thumbnails... I can look at all my windows with one mouse swipe. Now that tabs become their own tasks, all Windows 7 users are getting is bloat. What purpose does Live Thumbnails have anyway? Planning on watching porn in your mini-window while surfing the web?
3. Libraries: Snow Leopard uses ZFS... Simply add another HDD and your main disk space expands with it.
4. Windows Media Center: "The Jump To feature enables you to send video and audio output from one PC to a network-enabled media player, home stereo and even other PCs on the network – a trivial and tremendously useful feature OS X still lacks." You mean like Apple TV without having to use proprietary hardware? Interesting... I'll give it to them for making the step, but not the jump.
5. Device Connecting: Bloat boat. Is there someone lazy enough to change their phone settings from their computer?
I'm not a Microsoft / Windows hater, nor a total Mac elitist... But, if these are the TOP 5 Windows 7 features that need to be in Apple's OS, then someone needs to put on a thinking cap. Apple seems to be giving their OS less bloat and more functionality / "it just works" factor, where as Microsoft is adding more and more crap.
Snow Leopard: Grand Central, Re-written for complete 64-Bit Multi-Thread support, ZFS = No more data corruption / loss, OpenCL... Those are features to be excited about. - briLo, on 11/03/2008, -1/+16nobody saw that one coming....
- MarkusX, on 11/03/2008, -14/+28Taskbar is a must. IMO
- wedderburn, on 11/03/2008, -3/+16"We can ’t deny that Windows 7 delivers several innovative features that make today’s OS X look old."
hmmk, windows 7 isn't even out its mostly speculation, OS X is out its useable and i can go out right now and grab a mac loaded up with it.
this like saying, the flying space car which has yet to even make it to market, makes your normal car look old - dpcdomino, on 11/03/2008, -7/+19Vista had some great copy-able features before it was released also.
Being a recent MacBook owner and a new convert, I can not think of features MS can release on an OS that would make me switch back. 20 years on a PC was long enough... - mbannister, on 11/03/2008, -1/+13Buried for inaccurate
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -13/+251. basic functions are already in leopard
2. dock is much more powerfull
3. smart folders
4. front row - aDJsavedmylife, on 11/03/2008, -3/+141) POSIX shell.
- inactive, on 11/03/2008, -5/+15OSX doesn't have a maximize button, it toggles between a standard state and a user defined state.
- drgmdp, on 11/03/2008, -4/+14how is hitting a hotkey, then looking for the window you want to show and then clicking it faster than just clicking the item in the taskbar?
- GarryBarker, on 11/03/2008, -7/+17Wow Windoze fanboy much? All these features have been in OSX for years and it's taken MS this long to copy them?
- srg13, on 11/03/2008, -2/+11I've been using OS X regularly for about two weeks now - and really, I like its way better... I hardly ever have anything maximised on any OS I use...
- fahrvergnuugen, on 11/03/2008, -9/+18Yes, because I want a single window to fill up my entire screen.
The green (+) is not a maximize button. When you click it, it auto-sizes the window to try and display the content of the window without scroll bars (unless the content is bigger than the screen). Click it again and it toggles back to the original size. - dpcdomino, on 11/03/2008, -3/+12Not to mention greasing up the display with grubby fingers...
I have a hard enough time keeping my screen clear and I do not have to touch it. - GawtMilk, on 11/03/2008, -2/+10Windows Media CENTER. As in, the thing I use on the $600 media center server I built. 2TB of movies navigated with an infrared remote? I guarantee you won't find a better full-screen media program than Vista Media Center.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKUtxQRIMc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG8_BFydgr4 - clord, on 11/03/2008, -3/+11Switchers are going to kill the mac with ***** requests like this. I am glad apple probably won't listen.
- StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -0/+8Well, you can just click the item in the dock if you want, but I have OSX set that I throw the mouse pointer into the top right corner and Exposé opens. If you're looking for a specific document it is much easier than having to mouse over icons in a taskbar to get a preview of their content. Exposé also gives you a much larger target area to click on and reduces the amount of scanning you need to do to find the desired application.
Note I run both OSX and Windows with taskbars set to auto hide, but I still believe Exposé is a much better way of dealing with multiple windows.
Oh, and bottom right corner shows the desktop which means saving something like an image from a web page is as simple as dragging it to the bottom corner of the screen and it will drop onto the desktop. - bradleyland, on 11/03/2008, -0/+7Because even though I close all my Safari, Word, etc windows, does not mean I won't use the application again in a few moments. Why should I waste the time waiting for the app to start every time I want to use it?
- nads, on 11/03/2008, -0/+7How about only say 3 versions of Windows 7? Home, Business, Enterprise?
- Kelmon, on 11/03/2008, -1/+8The rationale is this - Macs run 2 types of applications:
* Document-based applications
* Standard applications
When closing the final window of a document-based application the application does not quit because the user may open a new document. When closing the window of a standard application the application quits because there is only the primary window and without that the application does not do anything.
Yes, switchers from Windows may find this behavior to be odd but it makes sense and I don't see any reason why the Mac needs to change to be like WIndows. I've been running a Mac now for the past 5-years and this is not a problem. If you do need to quit an application then Command+Q is the proper way to do things. - Sal4, on 11/03/2008, -1/+8In lots of cases! What's the point of having 2-4gb's of ram in your computer when you close every app you open? The whole point is to allow multitasking. And thanks to the dock on OSX apps that are still running in the background don't take up more space, like in Windows or Linux. So there's no real reason to turn them off at all, the whole point of it is that after you start a program it'll be way faster to open a new window of a program that's still running than to relaunch it completely.
- CPOliver, on 11/03/2008, -6/+13I have to disagree. I much prefer the Mac OS way of closing a window without quitting an app. Major multi-tasking is much easier for me with the icon-based dock and exposé than with the taskbar and alt-tab. I'm no fanboy, just supporting the OS I'm more productive with.
- Murdats, on 11/03/2008, -8/+14the point is if you have a tablet, or multiple mice, or some sort of minority report workstation with multiple people working on the same desktop.
I know everyone uses their apple machines the way jobs tells them to but some of us like to have the choice to use things in different ways, not everything is for every scenario but will still help a lot of people in a lot of ways. - GawtMilk, on 11/03/2008, -2/+8Those were concepts, these are betas. Actual working features you can use, right now - provided you download a beta version of Windows 7.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 11/03/2008, -0/+6What does the Libraries feature give you that a good old fashioned symlink (or hardlink) won't?
And yes, you can hardlink directories in OSX (that's how Time Machine works). - inactive, on 11/03/2008, -7/+136. Run Crysis.
- Altotus, on 11/03/2008, -0/+5Libraries are OS X' search folders with the important feature that they work outside of the finder/file dialog. It's a little bit more like some of the more esoteric features of Linux reiserfs, but implemented at a higher level.
- chipxsd, on 11/03/2008, -1/+6Ok, I understand the confusion. But, when closing a window in os x, you're actually closing just the window, not the application itself.
But I agree, a single click "quit application" would be nice. - vilago, on 11/03/2008, -5/+10not all of us have 12" computer monitor screens that need to be filled up
- Elranzer, on 11/03/2008, -1/+6"We already have tablet PCs and I see no practical use for this technology outside of kiosks."
You've obviously never worked in a hospital. - lostngone, on 11/03/2008, -4/+9First, the GUI was LICENSED from Xerox, nothing was "taken" from Xerox.
Second, If Apple is good enough to take something Microsoft has demoed and in less then 3 months take it and turn in around and put it in a working OS then Microsoft is "Doing it wrong". Can you give us any examples of what Apple has stolen from Microsoft in your "three months later" claim??? - jasondefaoite, on 11/03/2008, -1/+6Actually win7 is expected mid to end 2009
- dpcdomino, on 11/03/2008, -1/+6A little easier cleaning an iPhone screen. I do not see me dragging my monitor to my shirt clean it off real quick.
- billizm, on 11/03/2008, -4/+9Please, name 10. I would actually like to know. I have never used a Mac before. I am probably wrong, but I still think of Macs as an eye candy OS, that basically runs on a PC (x86), now - which uses a mouse with one button.
- philippbock, on 11/03/2008, -0/+4What exactly are those new fonts in Windows Media Center “eligible” for?
- CressCrowbits, on 11/03/2008, -5/+9Why on earth wouldn't you want a single window to fill up your entire screen?
This is how I, and I expect many, many others, like to work. - spaceddaisy, on 11/03/2008, -2/+6When you comment on something a product needs, at least, you know, make sure that it hasn't already been there for years.
- tinkafoo, on 11/03/2008, -29/+33Click the maximize button to make the window ACTUALLY MAXIMIZE.
- christinme, on 11/03/2008, -0/+4I am glad that there are people in the world that don't stand for the mediocre crap that microsoft puts out. I am not a MS hater or a APPLE fenatic, but I use to build pcs and love using windows for games, but Ever since I got my macbook I am slowing turning to the light side (I have since bought a iphone and apple tv). Yay for mac users.
- alakev, on 11/03/2008, -1/+5"Indexed Searching and the Sidebar."
what? - Altotus, on 11/03/2008, -0/+4The close button's on the window, not the application. You close the window, the window closes. The question is really a matter of semantic intent. On the Mac, sometimes the application and the window are logically linked, sometimes they aren't. Mail is a great example. It does something even if no windows are present -- it periodically checks for mail, clears out old messages, alerts you of new mails or the mail server being down, etc. The X11 server might run with no Windows open so that it can receive connections, and I've got apps that do various rendering / data pipelining chores for which no window is needed except in the odd even that you want to interact / monitor it.
Also, some applications provide services accessible through scripting languages. There's no need to have a window open while they are providing these services -- it may even be distracting.
If you want to nit-pick this difference in interfaces, it's really that an application that performs no function at all when there are are no open Windows shouldn't persist when all the windows are closed (unless reloading the application de novo is slow). - Victawr, on 11/03/2008, -4/+8"Bawwww, Vista sucks!"
I lol every time. My machine runs vista beautifully, I havent gotten a virus since I got vista, and its pretty.
All these features you all complain about: Press the "disable" button. I know, a little effort is too much.
Anyway, I think everyone should shut up about who is worse. They're both great in their own way.
We're arguing about apples and oranges here. - timster, on 11/03/2008, -2/+6I agree completely, and couldn't have said it better.
I'm betting that anyone who thinks OS X needs a taskbar has not used OS X before. A taskbar would just get in the way and complicate things. Plus, like you said, who needs it with Expose?
Windows Media Center is probably THE worst piece of software that comes with Windows. Front Row works way better anyways. - fahrvergnuugen, on 11/03/2008, -1/+5Speaking of Command+Q... what idiot came up with that?. I wish Apple would switch it to Alt+F4.
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