The Wide, Wide World of Apple

Started by Barrister, August 24, 2009, 01:50:38 PM

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DontSayBanana

#120
August 31, 2009, 01:11:44 PM
On the supportive side, let me know how running Snow Leopard goes- reading up some more, Snow Leopard will take advantage of the Nehalem much better than Leopard could, because more of the kernel is being moved to 64-bit. I'm considering getting it for S' MacBook, but I want to see how it actually performs versus how it claims it will perform.
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Barrister

#121
August 31, 2009, 01:17:17 PM
Quote from: DontSayBanana on August 31, 2009, 01:11:44 PM
On the supportive side, let me know how running Snow Leopard goes- reading up some more, Snow Leopard will take advantage of the Nehalem much better than Leopard could, because more of the kernel is being moved to 64-bit. I'm considering getting it for S' MacBook, but I want to see how it actually performs versus how it claims it will perform.

Did you doubt that I wouldn't give a full AAR about installing Snow Leopard and 8GB of RAM?  :cool:

The reviews I've seen all say that SL seems "snappier", and of course freeing up hard drive space is groovy, but there are no "got to have" features either.  If you're a techie (and I believe you are) I would urge you to get it just to have the latest and shiniest toy.  I don't think I'd recommend my parents upgrade however, as it's just likely to confuse them (they his and hers iMacs).
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DontSayBanana

#122
August 31, 2009, 01:23:35 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2009, 01:17:17 PM
Did you doubt that I wouldn't give a full AAR about installing Snow Leopard and 8GB of RAM?  :cool:

The reviews I've seen all say that SL seems "snappier", and of course freeing up hard drive space is groovy, but there are no "got to have" features either.  If you're a techie (and I believe you are) I would urge you to get it just to have the latest and shiniest toy.  I don't think I'd recommend my parents upgrade however, as it's just likely to confuse them (they his and hers iMacs).

:lol: No doubt about that. Mostly, I want to see what we might be able to do to reduce the hang time on Adobe's stuff- she works heavily in Illustrator; even with the 2.53Ghz Core 2 Duo and 3 GB of RAM, there are times we have to walk away and do something else while CS4 is loading.
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Barrister

#123
August 31, 2009, 01:39:01 PM
Well apparently that is one of the big improvements people have noticed - decreased start times for applications.  But I think I remember hearing that CS4 was rather buggy for the Mac.  :unsure:
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DontSayBanana

#124
August 31, 2009, 03:16:45 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2009, 01:39:01 PM
Well apparently that is one of the big improvements people have noticed - decreased start times for applications.  But I think I remember hearing that CS4 was rather buggy for the Mac.  :unsure:

Adobe tends to be a notable exception for performance, because they developed their own cross-platform dev tools to ensure compatibility with both Mac and PC. Most apps people are using to benchmark were built with the standard Apple tools. I'm mostly interested in the streamlined access to extra memory registers available with x64 systems.
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Neil

#125
August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
IE8 is actually the most secure browser there is, with Firefox coming in second.  Safari is down there with Chrome and Opera.

Mac users are doomed.
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DontSayBanana

#126
August 31, 2009, 03:24:25 PM
Quote from: Neil on August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
IE8 is actually the most secure browser there is, with Firefox coming in second.  Safari is down there with Chrome and Opera.

Mac users are doomed.

IE8 hasn't really been widely propagated yet. I'm not buying the notion that any browser based on that abortion of a control class, ActiveX, is the "most secure."
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Barrister

#127
August 31, 2009, 03:33:21 PM
Quote from: Neil on August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
IE8 is actually the most secure browser there is, with Firefox coming in second.  Safari is down there with Chrome and Opera.

Prove it.

Quote from: Neil on August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
Mac users are doomed.

If this is what it's like to be doomed, then I never want it to end. :cool:

By the way, Safari (or occasionally Chrome, which has the same Apple-developed Webkit core) has generally been found to be the fastest web browser.  :contract:

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Berkut

#128
August 31, 2009, 04:05:52 PM
Shouldn't this thread be titled the "Narrow, narrow niche of apple"?
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Barrister

#129
August 31, 2009, 04:08:54 PM
I dunno - we got to 9 pages pretty quickly...
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Berkut

#130
August 31, 2009, 04:18:47 PM
But 8.5 of those pages are people mocking you, so that doesn't really help you much.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Ed Anger

#131
August 31, 2009, 04:37:00 PM
I gave up on mocking Beeb.
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Barrister

#132
August 31, 2009, 07:52:06 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 31, 2009, 04:37:00 PM
I gave up on mocking Beeb.

:yeah:

Apple STILL hasn't shipped Snow Leopard. :angry:

Memory, OTOH, was sent out right away.  :cool:
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Ideologue

#133
August 31, 2009, 10:51:20 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2009, 03:33:21 PM
Quote from: Neil on August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
IE8 is actually the most secure browser there is, with Firefox coming in second.  Safari is down there with Chrome and Opera.

Prove it.

Quote from: Neil on August 31, 2009, 03:22:39 PM
Mac users are doomed.

If this is what it's like to be doomed, then I never want it to end. :cool:

By the way, Safari (or occasionally Chrome, which has the same Apple-developed Webkit core) has generally been found to be the fastest web browser.  :contract:

Has speed of application, versus speed of connection, ever really been an issue? :unsure:
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derspiess

#134
August 31, 2009, 11:10:00 PM
Quote from: Barrister on August 31, 2009, 12:59:44 PM


So what are your theories on what will be released, and what this cryptic ad is supposed to mean?

And how soon will you upgrade your Touch if the new feature is just a camera? :P
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