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Oct 26, 2007View in Crawl 4
So, 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.
If 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.
Bingo ! - 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 )
I 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...
swift2Oct 27, 2007
So, 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.
swift2Oct 27, 2007
If 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.
mrgoatOct 27, 2007
That's a brilliantly insightful post. Well done you.
mrbitchOct 27, 2007
Bingo ! - 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 )
kelmonNov 7, 2007
I 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...