It looks pretty cool. I’m going to wait til I hear some things about it before I upgrade to it… Maybe for Christmas.
Looks cool. Can I run it in a VM to try it out?
maybe I should break my hard-drive again and see if they put that on the new one. I had my hard-drive replaced a year and a half ago and they installed 10.4 at no cost. (I was running 10.3 at the time and I don’t bother with the cat names it gets confusing.)
It looks really nice to me, but I am going to wait a while before I upgrade to it.
$130 is too much for me right now to spend on my laptop.
Download it.
I’ve read around a little on some mac forums…
It seems like a lot of people are having installation problems. Something about a blue screen (sounds like a common windows issue).
It looks great but my mom doesnt want me to get it yet. And I dont really need it I just want it 
That look very cool, Im still using version 10.3 
. I think I might get it for myself as a Christmas present… Too bad I won’t be able to use Boot Camp because I’m on my G4.
Gutsy Gibbon + Compiz > Leopard
im using leopard
its the same i guess
i havent explored much
some pretty cool changes, spaces is sweet, they taught safari some new tricks, etc etc.
No huge changes other then bootcamp and a few developer-oriented application updates, but i’m satisfied
still have some exploring to do though
Did OS X not have virtual desktops before? Spaces is just a virtual desktop manager.
i dont think it did
i use firefox so i have no idea what safari does
but spaces is amazing
helps with multiple windows
unfortunately john childs, running OS X in a VM is not supported apart from qemu (hardware emulator), but thats not really feasible due to lack of performance. You could use grub/bootcamp to multi-boot though…
I’m really surprised people arent shooting jobs after his ipod and iphones scandal. (iphone was the overpricing + locking) and ipod was locking all ipods into itunes.
To the person suggesting to download it, your just not very smart now are you?
As far as the new OS goes, it seems to me a little pointless, i mean yeah its pretty but for $130 i expect better than pretty.
As for gutsy gibson + compiz… I’d hope you were using compiz fusion by now on GG, and lets be honest, Gnome looks like a bag of sh*t compared the X on the macs. Compiz fusion is buggy crashes often and looks awesome but takes a massive performance hit and requires a powerfull GFX card. Look at mac laptops…
Here’s me sounding pro mac. Scary.
So those of you who have installed it haven’t encountered any problems with it yet?
Yea, there are no huge changes, but thats how Apple is advertising it. It’s something like 300 subtle changes that improve effeciency and are meant to be a “platform” for what is to come in the future.
Here is a list of the changes.
It’ll be a Christmas present for me as well.
i haven’t expirienced anything
Shooting? How about just not buying stuff if it doesn’t do what you want? That said, I agree with most of those gripes. I have a much, much longer list of gripes for Mr. Gates but no plans to go all ballistic on him. 
On locking the iPod to iTunes, this makes perfect sense to me in terms of Apple being able to say the iPod is easy to use. As soon as you unlock it this would stop being true because it would be much more complex to use, and the specifics of that would depend on what service you tried to use it with. For the same reason, the Mac OS is tied to our Macs. Less software options, but a better overall user experience because stuff tends to work.
I tend to agree with that, though looking at the long list of minor updates and new features, as a whole they are fairly compelling if they’re stuff that’s meaningful to you. Several of them are, but I’m not in a hurry to upgrade. The new Time Machine (Windows has something similar) will probably be pretty useful, and add some in-between steps to my current backing-up methods. Anything that improves the world of backing up is a good thing!
ehehe i was joking, i have more gripes with balmer actually, but yeah you are right,
as for locking the ipods, you kinda make sense… but its still aload of rubbish. In that case they should have an unlock feature for advanced users.
Here’s a lengthy, in-depth review at arstechnica.com.
I skimmed some sections… seems like a mixed bag of good and bad changes.
I’m in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” group. I’d still be running Win98 if it were supported… did everything I wanted it to, for the most part.
Unfortunately, it seems commercial developers are encouraged to constantly upgrade their dev kits, which leads to software that only works on “the latest” system. Bugger that.
You’ve made your fanatical posts in many threads but have failed to list any number of reasons why one should switch… nor have you address the bugginess of Compiz.
What would compel one to switch over from a more mature and user-friendly product such as Windoze or OSX? Please give us some pros and cons of each product so we can understand your “greater-than” assertation.
Keep in mind that bells and whistles do not make a system. “Apt-get” was one of the coolest features I’ve found in any Linux distro, and it was certainly enough to get me on board with Debian. You can’t, however, simply dangle a fancy window-switching animation in front of me and expect me to switch.
Seems Apple hypes their fancy buttons and menu bars, and I’m sure it works with all the artsy-fartsy types that worship All That Is Apple, but the developer in me is more interested in the Linux-like core… and since the Linux kernel is free as in beer, I don’t see why I should pay big bucks for a brushed-metal case and some fancy widgets.