Snow Leopard Observations
Tue, September 1st 2009 at 09:35pm
Seeing as I am pretty new to the whole Apple and OS X I am not going to try and write a review, but just some of my limited observations of the past few days. When I first got my Macbook Pro several weeks ago I was (and still am) very pleased with the overall package, but there were a few nagging things that I did not like. None of the problems were close to the problems I had with my Dell XPS M1330 I bought a few years ago though.
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Snow Leopard = Tablet Edition?
Tue, September 1st 2009 at 10:23am
So far I have been very happy with Snow Leopard, everything on my system is much snappier and seems to work better, but I will be posting some more about that later. Right now I just had a though about why Apple is releasing this now, and it seems that this would be the perfect Tablet OS.
Everything they did in Snow Leopard seems help both the desktop but mostly the tablet. For example:
- Smaller Footprint: A new Tablet will most likely sport an SSD so the few extra gigabytes we scoffed at on the desktop become more relevant on a tablet.
- Faster: Faster code means they streamlined and made their code run more efficiently. This means much better performance for us on laptops and desktops, but would also mean that the full OS will run better on smaller devices. A tablet will most likely have a lower powered embedded CPU, like a Atom. So efficiency would be important.
- Software Support: A tablet would probably not like running emulation software like Rosetta. So this clean break mentality of Snow Leopard will help force developers to update their applications to the latest Snow Leopard API’s, and get rid of as much legacy apps and drivers as possible. Then when the tablet launches it will have as much software support as possible
These are just thoughts about where this could be leading. Even it a tablet is not coming I think optimizing code is a great thing, especially when the results are so noticeable. Personally I am not even all that excited about a tablet unless it costs around $300, which I am pretty sure it will not. My Macbook Pro and PC serve me well.
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MacBook Pro 13.3: So far so good!
Thu, June 18th 2009 at 05:20am
Last weekend I decided to take the plunge and buy my first Apple computer. The recently announce MacBook Pro 13.3 seemed like the perfect fit for me. I have been looking for a small laptop for a long time, I even bought a Dell XPS 13.3 and had to return it. So when the new updated MacBook Pro’s were announced at WWDC I just decided to order the next day.
After using it for a couple of days I thought I would post some inital thoughts on the system, and compare it to my limited experiences with the Dell XPS 13.3.
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Sometimes I love Apple
Sun, June 14th 2009 at 02:03am
This just made my laugh a little. Even in the specs for the upcoming OS X: Snow Leopard release Apple takes a little jab at Windows.
“HFS+ read support in Boot Camp.
Boot Camp now includes HFS+ read support that enables you to access the files on your Mac OS X partition from Windows. It
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Apple Loving Getting Old
Sun, November 9th 2008 at 07:05pm
After watching a short video about how Windows 7 is copying Apple I got a little mad. It seems that when ever Apple does something people think that they just came up with it all by themselves, and its never been done before.
Multitouch has been worked on for many years by several different companies. Microsoft has had the Microsoft Surface prototype in development for years, and showed mature demos in early 2007.
I am not saying that Microsoft is innocent, just that neither is Apple or Linux. The point is that software only improves by taking things that work and improving on them. If no one was allowed to copy anything we would never make any progress in any field.
Can you imagine if you could patent an equation in Mathmatics? Then no one could use your equation to solve more complex problems in the future. Where would we be today? Probably still working with basic algebra.
*End Rant*
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Macworld 2008
Sat, January 12th 2008 at 09:11pm
After returning my Dell M1330 last year I have been cautiously shopping for a new laptop. Macworld 08 has always been on my mind, because I am always wondering what they might announce this year that will make my purchase look like a piece of junk.
After seeing some new photos of the Moscone Center and new banners I am starting to think the rumors of an ultra portable Macbook with WiMax are looking more accurate.
“There’s Something in the Air” seems to imply a “new” WiFi technology, and the new laptop seems to fit the bill pretty well.
Anyway, I am looking forward to the keynote and to see what Steve has up his sleeve.
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So Long iTunes
Sat, September 29th 2007 at 04:27pm
For a while now I have been using iTunes as my main music player and the iTunes music store as my exclusive online music store, however I have come to the end of the line. There has not been one single thing that has caused me to give up on iTunes and Apple, but a combination of lots of things that when put together make iTunes not such a hot product.
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ITunes 7 for Windows Review
Sun, September 17th 2006 at 03:14am
Even though I am trying to make the move from Windows to Linux I am still interested in the happenings at Apple. Even though I disagree with Apple’s philosophies on dealing with copy protection, and online music/tv/movie distribution, I still feel that they are pushing the envelope in user interface design with some of thier OS and some of thier applications. With that in mind when I saw that ITunes 7 had been release I went to download it right away.
Seeing as I no longer use the ITunes Store, due to aversion to DRM’d content, this review will be based more on my impressions of the actual applications design and performance.
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