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[shantyman]

From Ars-Technica, by John Siracusa. His OS X reviews are essential for any Mac nerd or regualr computer geek. He talks about EVERYTHING (from the packaging to Unix file permissions), some things to arcane for my blood, but fascinating nonetheless. I always look foreard to reading these bad boys every time a new release of OS X is released.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10.4.ars/1

 

[FortNinety]

Awesome. I always look forward the Arstechnica reviews on Mac OSs. Their last one on Panther was fucking killer.

 

[shantyman]

I just "finished" it. I say it that way because I skimmed over half of it, way too technical for me.

 

[Macam]

I made it to page 8 this morning before I had to attend class, which is fine since my brain fizzled out. But how I do love that site.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Very very good. Apples implementation of metadata is surprising as it's a half-baked job. It certainly takes the marketing sheen of what Spotlight is and what it can do, but it really got me thinking of what could be done with the technology. 10.5 should be very interesting, but for now LOOK AT THAT COOL RIPPLE EFFECT! *drags widgets off and on the desktop all day* Well worth the money.

 

[SteveMeister]

My favorite part is when the author makes the point that each successive version of OSX has run FASTER on the same hardware than the version before it. THAT is pretty cool.

 

[pxleyes]

Thanks for the link. Hopefully this will be a good primer for when I get a mac in the fall.

 

[shantyman]

My favorite part is when the author makes the point that each successive version of OSX has run FASTER on the same hardware than the version before it. THAT is pretty cool.

Yes, that is one of the coolest things about OS X.

 

[fse]

I am gonna buy Tiger along with 768MB more ram.

 

[pxleyes]

OMFG, Quicktime still doesn't let you use Fullscreen mode without paying 30 bucks??!?!?!?

As the author says, that is an INSULT.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

No, Quicktime does, Quicktime player doesn't. As the author says it's an insult that you have to pay $30 for the player to do fullscreen, even though the API's for that are sitting on your computer anyway. It's just daft.