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Geek Culture / OS/X Lion

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Phaelax
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Posted: 7th Jun 2011 22:58
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Thoughts and opinions? And please, if you're here just to bash Apple, go follow a lemming off a cliff instead.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/features.html


It's only $30 to upgrade, which is nice, but I don't see how this is the "most advanced OS" ever as they claim. For the most party, they just added the iOS features to it and renamed a few other things to make them seem new. And what's the difference between Versions and Time Machine? Seems like basically the same thing to me (though it is a nice feature).

There's really nothing that bad I have to say about Lion, but typical Apple seems to have vastly over-exaggerated its product I think. But I don't have an Intel mac, so I can't upgrade anyway.

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Aaron Miller
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Posted: 7th Jun 2011 23:10 Edited at: 7th Jun 2011 23:13
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Quote: "but typical Apple seems to have vastly over-exaggerated its product I think"

I believe that's the point of marketing.

Personally, I like Mac OS X. The upgrade price is nice too, since I'm running Snow Leopard. Although, I'd love to use OS X.

By the way, it's not "OS/X." I believe the "/" is only meant for the "OS/2" set of operating systems. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

EDIT: I prefer the UNIX underlying system of OS X btw, so it doesn't really matter what the top-level GUI is since I do most of my work with nano and gcc. I compiled my gcc from source to 4.7 on Windows using cygwin, and I'm going to do the same on OS X once I boot back into it.

Cheers,
Aaron.
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The Wilderbeast
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Posted: 7th Jun 2011 23:53
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I have a PPC PowerBook G4, so no upgrade for me

But to be honest I don't really care; it runs Logic Pro 8 and that's all I care about.


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David R
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Posted: 8th Jun 2011 00:22
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Airdrop and Versions look pretty handy, as does the fullscreen terminal

Quote: " And what's the difference between Versions and Time Machine? Seems like basically the same thing to me (though it is a nice feature)."


They basically do the same thing, yeah, except versions can be locally stored rather than exclusively backed up to an external drive. And presumably it's a version per change rather than a fixed interval like with time machine.

Obviously for code it's pretty useless vs. git et al. but I suppose it'll be useful for word documents and the like

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crispex
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Posted: 8th Jun 2011 08:12
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In a way I miss my old PowerBook. Was a great little machine.

I just now realized I've had a typo in my signature for the past 3 years.
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dab
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Posted: 8th Jun 2011 21:22 Edited at: 8th Jun 2011 21:22
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Quote: "Resize from any edge
You can now resize a window from any side or corner."


Is it strange that that is the only real feature I'm excited about? :\

I can't tell you how many times I've wished I could drag from any side like Winderz, but alas, I had to move my mouse a whole 100px further

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Code eater
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Posted: 8th Jun 2011 21:35 Edited at: 8th Jun 2011 21:39
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Only 250+ new features? pffff.... the new Windows Mobile OS has 500 new feature... everyone knows that features are how you measure an OS.

[Edit] And some of these features seem pretty un-extraordinary (ordinary I guess).

e.g. Turn FaceTime off

If pots and pans were "if"s and "and"s there would be no work for programmer's hands...
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Lemonade
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Posted: 9th Jun 2011 09:52 Edited at: 9th Jun 2011 09:52
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By my calculations, turning FaceTime off will cost you 12 cents. Enjoy.

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