Comments on: WWDC – Apple Unveils Mac Pro, Leopard Sneak Peek

By: DIARY OF A WEBSITE :: DESIGN BY CAFFEINE » Blog Archive » Blog Club : Apple

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:37:45 +0000

[...] WWDC – Apple Unveils Mac Pro, Leopard Sneak Peek : Paul Stamatiou [...]

By: ansemond.com » Blog Archive » WWDC from a software developer’s viewpoint

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:37:57 +0000

[...] WWDC is exciting for end users. It’s even more so for developers! Of course we all are excited to learn about the latest and greatest, and love unexpected surprises such as DTrace support. However there’s a bad side. Will Apple Steam roll my product? [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:55:01 +0000

“During the keynote Phil Schiller compared this standard Mac Pro configuration to a similarly-specâ€™d Dell Precision 690 workstation – the Apple was about $1000 cheaper.”

Of course, the Dell Precision 690 is a FULL tower, so not comparable in that regard. The 690 can take up to 64GB RAM, compared to 16 for the Mac. Has RAID onboard. Three year 4hr warranty.

It’s a bit of a laugh comparing the Mac’s NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT with 256MB RAM to a Quadro FX 3500.

Then there’s the LCD monitor the Dell ships with but the Mac doesn’t (in my efforts to get a $1000 more expensive more Dell 690 than the Mac)

The 490 still outspecs the Mac Pro in several areas, by default and is under $400 difference.

Nice as it is, as curious as I am to get one, Apple was being more than a little disingenuous in this comparison.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 10:09:52 +0000

Disappointing overall, but Jobs didn’t start off with saying there’s top secret “stuff” to come for no reason, at least I hope..

I would like to see iChat support for the Windows Live Messenger & Yahoo! Instant Messenger services so I can stop using Adium (as its bugs can be very annoying).

By: Mark Papadakis

Mark Papadakis — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:04:45 +0000

I personally wasn’t that impressed, an I wanted to be impressed. No resolution independence, no unified UI, no new Finder, no revamped kernel ( bar 64bit for all things Leopard ). Sure Core Animation is neat and will allow developers to get so many apps wiz-bang enabled in the future, TimeMachine is slick ( though I don’t think I ever used), iChat tabs are nice..But uhm, is that all? I hope they will start delivering on the finder-res.independence-unifiedUI etc ‘promises’ as time goes by. Anyway – having said that, Go apple Go!

By: Blake Brannon

Blake Brannon — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:05:32 +0000

I really like the iChat screen sharing feature. VMware also released a beta version of their virtual software today for OS X. I'm still trying to watch the stream of WWDC but it keeps messing up and is annoying me. I agree with Andrew Swihart, Apple's support from my experience consists of: "Do you have a external drive?", "Yes", "Backup everything, format and reinstall", "Great!!!"

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:34:11 +0000

I purchased my first Mac about a week ago because I couldn’t stand the thought of using Windows Vista, so I’m part of that 50% statistic.

By: weisheng

weisheng — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:04:00 +0000

On a side note, I’m finding my comments don’t appear immediately on a lot of WordPress blogs today. Is Akismet acting up everyone, is anyone else affected? Or have I been blacklisted :\

By: eric

eric — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:56:29 +0000

Interesting … akismet is also catching my own comments on my own site as spam. Maybe they’re having some technical difficulties today?

Andrew – what’s your beef with Apple hardware and support? I’ve had nothing but great luck with my computers, and when my laptop had a wonky hard drive AppleCare swapped it out in a day or two.

By: Edwin

Edwin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:53:06 +0000

Well to tell you the truth i was expecting more from Leopard and its a bit disappointing, but maybe in the future they are going to show more features that can make us say wow.

Anyway, when is Apple going to change the theme of OSX, they should change the colors or something. Also they could choose a new default wallpaper.

By: Andrew Swihart

Andrew Swihart — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:47:12 +0000

I hope so, as much as I’d like to run OSX, Apple’s hardware, although pretty, has quality control issues, the company has probably the worst customer support second to ____, and their policies in general really turn me off. It would be nice to be able to buy OSX though, and run it on any computer, without a doubt.

By: Guillaumeb

Guillaumeb — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:39:12 +0000

Ok, we already know there is a way to install Windows on a Mac , right?
We aleady know there used to be a hack to install Mac OSX on Intel PC, right?

I am wondering if Jobs has already thought to legalize this Mac OSX installation on PC…Do you, Mac fans, believe this will see the light one day ?

By: weisheng

weisheng — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:37:33 +0000

I think Time Machine is going to be a great feature for me. I have an external drive I back up to and I’ve been flitting between backup software (currently using ChronoSync) for some time and none have truly impressed me. Time Machine looks like the ultimate backup software, along with kickass graphics to boot.

I think I’ll be using Spaces quite a bit too, though probably not as much as those who use their Mac for work and play. I’m thinking of replacing my PowerBook with a MacBook Pro but will probably only do that after Leopard’s release. Let the glitches sort themselves out before forking out the cash.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:19:52 +0000

Wow sorry guys.. Akismet killed all of your comments. Good thing I check that sucker daily.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 22:08:54 +0000

I’d just like to point out that Spaces isn’t limited to four screens – you can have as many (or as few) columns and rows of ’spaces’ as you want, configurable in a preference pane.

By: weisheng

weisheng — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:43:13 +0000

A little underwhelming on the Leopard front but I think Apple is probably holding back feature announcements to prevent Microsoft from incorporating them into Vista at the last moment. They better have something big up their sleeve though, with all this anti-Windows vitriolic and the huge hype that’s building up around Leopard.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:36:44 +0000

Some of the features are "better late than never". Spaces (virtual desktop ala Xwindows), RSS in Mail, Collaborative calendaring in iCal. I just posted my Top Five favorite Leopard features to cut through the fluff... what do you think?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:34:49 +0000

Some of the features are better late than never... spaces = Xwindows virtual desktop, RSS in Mail, Collaborative Calendaring in iCal. I just posted my top five favorite Leopard features... what do you think?