Apple Set to Launch Next-Gen OS

This is just like the old saying, "The pot calling the kettle black." After enduring over a year of very childish insults from Steve Jobs, Apple and the iMinions can't take the criticism. Steve must have programmed a reto-active distortion to user program. Leopard doesn't deliver the big bang that Steve-O promised and it borrowed from Vista. Bottom line is which company has 93% of the desktop market.......

MICROSOFT!

That ultimately, pardon the pun is the bottom line.

Leopard is coming in with a wimper, while Vista charges ahead picking up steam. Even if you get every Mac owner to switch to Leopard, its still 5 percent of the U.S. desktop market. 3% of the World desktop market. Apple is still stuck at number two. The only OS its going to hurt is Linux. While Linux adopters will continue to test and use that fledgling OS, it will never become a mainstream OS. It will be an underground OS with none of the environment to challenge Apple or Microsoft.

The features in Leopard aren't worth the switch. However, the features from XP to Vista are worth the switch. Vista covers everything now that Apple used to do and has essentially assimilated OS-X.

Internet Explorer 7 loads much faster than in Safari. Even the Apple page in Safari is slower than IE7. After playing around with the lastest Macbooks, that my Toshiba Lifebook is quicker.

Even with all the changes, OS-X is functionally no different that the original Mac OS of 1984. Its the same experience with more applications but the same user experience. Nothing has evolved with OS-X. The Vista interface is vastly different from Windows 1.0. I feel that Apple keeps their operating system dumbed down for those who aren't techno savvy.

Finally, after chatting with computer technicans in the Dallas area, they are having more difficulty with OS-X than XP. They spend more time troubleshooting OS-X problems than XP problems. From the guys to fix them, thats the ultimate proof that OS-X is still second string.

"Plagued by delays and missing any of the exciting "secret" features promised a year ago..."

Oh Paul, that sounds like you in the summer of 2006 with Longhorn/Vista. You whined and complained about delays and dropped features and broken promises only to give Vista a four Paul Head review.

I can see the future: you'll get a copy of Lepoard. You'll post 184567392 photos of you taking the CD's out of the box. You'll use it for a week. You'll post a nine part review about how most of it is so-so but one feature is awesome and you'll give it a three Paul Head review for some reason or another.

Blah de blah blah.

@lotsaignorance:
""Time Machine requires an additional hard drive (sold separately)." -Apple's Leopard site

so you can't keep previous versions without spending money on additional hardware."

Any idiot that would back up a hard drive to the same hard drive must be getting advice from a stoned Canadian."

You clearly have no concept of what you are talking about. Previous versions (aka Shadow Copy) != Backups. (Oh, and != means doesn't equal).

Previous versions is there to roll back a file in case of user error. Backups are there for disk or hardware error.

"Yes, the Sidebar can be configured to run in the back. Of course, than there's no easy way to get at it except click the tiny little tray icon or minimize everything (but not hit Show Desktop, 'cause that hides the sidebar as well)"

Windows key + spacebar. Problem solved.

"Any idiot that would back up a hard drive to the same hard drive must be getting advice from a stoned Canadian."

and who's advice is that? not mine....any idiot that can read would see that.

previous versions of files are stored locally on Windows though, not requiring a backup, which works not only for home users, but also domain networks with lmited access. users can restore previous versions of files without requiring a backup operator. also, in many businesses, external hard drives are forbidden, and files are stored on a locked server using the aforementioned My Documents Redirection (or any other network folder share for that matter). users can still roll back changes to their data files in those situations. Previous Versions is a much faster and simpler way of rolling back file changes than launching Time Machine, but then, who needs productivity when you have fancy graphics and unnecessary additional hardware, eh losta?

seriously though, it's a flippin' BACKUP UTILITY! this is what happens when you move someone from the graphic design department to the software design department that has no previous experience. (more like, from screensaver to UI design - what, did they hire the After Dark team for this PoS??)

"Previous versions is not a disaster recovery type of feature, but rather an "oops, I deleted a file" feature."

actually, it's an "oops, I overwrote a file" feature.

"You really need to bring the hard drive off site in order to have a truly robust backup strategy."

a better strategy is to have two or more, and rotate through them. large eSATA hard drives are still far cheaper than tape drives and media.

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