Comments on: Leopard Spotted in San Francisco http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/ Random babblings from a few digitally inclined people Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:02:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: The Cool Macbook Pro blog / Leopard Spotted in San Francisco http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2082 Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:36:01 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2082 [...] Read the rest of this post [...] […] Read the rest of this post […]

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]]> by: Cyrris http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2079 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:14:19 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2079 Having never owned a Mac, things like Time Machine aren't just impressive - they really blow me away. Even just from a visual perspective (let alone functionality) OS X is just so far beyond what WinXP offers that it almost makes me cry. Overall I was impressed watching this keynote, though with everyone saying that it was quite underwhelming compared to previous ones, I guess I had better go and watch them to see what they were like. Having never owned a Mac, things like Time Machine aren’t just impressive - they really blow me away. Even just from a visual perspective (let alone functionality) OS X is just so far beyond what WinXP offers that it almost makes me cry.

Overall I was impressed watching this keynote, though with everyone saying that it was quite underwhelming compared to previous ones, I guess I had better go and watch them to see what they were like.

]]> by: Kelmon http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2078 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:55:11 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2078 I suspect that these aren't the "Top Secret" features that Steve was alluding to during the keynote but AppleInsider has posted <a href="http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=1957" rel="nofollow">an article</a> based on information gained from analysis of the developer preview version of Leopard that was handed out. A few interesting bits in it, such as Core Animation making it easier to give an application a Full-Screen Mode, enhancements to QuickTime allowing recording from the screen, and system-wide grammar checker. I suspect that these aren’t the “Top Secret” features that Steve was alluding to during the keynote but AppleInsider has posted an article based on information gained from analysis of the developer preview version of Leopard that was handed out. A few interesting bits in it, such as Core Animation making it easier to give an application a Full-Screen Mode, enhancements to QuickTime allowing recording from the screen, and system-wide grammar checker.

]]> by: Kelmon http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2077 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:21:29 +0000 http://www.aelon.net/2006/08/leopard-spotted-in-san-francisco/#comment-2077 In Reply to <a href="#comment-2076" rel="nofollow">#1</a>: We're expecting the Core 2 Duo machines to appear once Intel gets a decent supply of the processors out so you might see things announced next month at the MacExpo in Paris. Rumour has it (and, of course, <i>that's</i> reliable) that Apple is receiving a big shipment of the Merom processors in early September so I'd expect at least the MacBook Pro to be upgraded and I'd also expect to see the iMac adopt the Conroe processor. With respect to the default graphics card on the Mac Pro, what would you need more for except games or high-end scientific graphics? Options for both exist but given that the Mac Pro is expected to be used in photography and media a high-end gaming graphics card would be total overkill. Wrong market. I have seen mention from places like MacWorld that there probably does exist a market for a system in between the new Mac Pro and iMac in a customisable tower format. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen since there has been significant number of requests for a 12" format MacBook Pro but Apple still seem to suggesting that the MacBook is a suitable replacement. In Reply to #1: We’re expecting the Core 2 Duo machines to appear once Intel gets a decent supply of the processors out so you might see things announced next month at the MacExpo in Paris. Rumour has it (and, of course, that’s reliable) that Apple is receiving a big shipment of the Merom processors in early September so I’d expect at least the MacBook Pro to be upgraded and I’d also expect to see the iMac adopt the Conroe processor.

With respect to the default graphics card on the Mac Pro, what would you need more for except games or high-end scientific graphics? Options for both exist but given that the Mac Pro is expected to be used in photography and media a high-end gaming graphics card would be total overkill. Wrong market.

I have seen mention from places like MacWorld that there probably does exist a market for a system in between the new Mac Pro and iMac in a customisable tower format. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen since there has been significant number of requests for a 12″ format MacBook Pro but Apple still seem to suggesting that the MacBook is a suitable replacement.

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