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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Better Watch Out Adobe!
Thu, August 27th 2009 at 10:39pm
For a long time Adobe has been my personal favorite source of all design related software from Photoshop to InDesign. The move from Quark 6.5 to InDesign was like night and day. Adobe also has a great community and fanboys that publicize their products to no end. But they are starting to forget that the community made them what they are. Now that they are the “Big Company” on the block it seems that the bottom line is all that matters.
The recent news that they will not support CS3 on Snow Leopard is just another sign, but it has been going on for a long time. For me the first time I noticed it was when I tried to upgrade to Windows Vista 64. Back then CS3 was the newest release and people running Photoshop are the most likely to want more than 4GB’s of RAM that a 64bit OS provides. However first off Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 would not even install without several error messages and trips to the message boards. Once it was installed the PDF printer would not work at all. It took several months for them to release a fix, and to this day CS3 still has some more minor visual bugs that stopped me moving to 64bit Vista. more »
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