What you think are/will be the compelling reasons to buy/upgrade to Leopard?

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  • Reply 61 of 73
    irelandireland Posts: 17,802member
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    Apple's teaser hints at illuminous?



    Lemon Bon Bon



    Who knows.
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  • Reply 62 of 73
    What I do want to know is whether Open GL 2 rivals Direct X 10? Some of the finess in D10 is quite impressive.



    Lemon Bon Bon
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  • Reply 63 of 73
    hypoluxahypoluxa Posts: 703member
    OK guys here is what you can do with vector art these days...http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/...ector-art.html so don't you all worry your little heads off when it comes to vector based GUI's. 8)
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  • Reply 64 of 73
    amoryaamorya Posts: 1,103member
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    OK guys here is what you can do with vector art these days...http://basangpanaginip.blogspot.com/...ector-art.html so don't you all worry your little heads off when it comes to vector based GUI's. 8)



    The problem is rendering speed, not complexity.
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  • Reply 65 of 73
    hypoluxahypoluxa Posts: 703member
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    The problem is rendering speed, not complexity.



    Right, I imagine they have thought of that already.
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  • Reply 66 of 73
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
    In my opinion, the reason to upgrade to the next operating system is NOT the big, heavily advertised features. It is the very numerous small "detail" features. This is a bad example because it's not very important and its not really what I consider a "detail" feature per se...but more of one than others... but... Guest accounts.
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  • Reply 67 of 73
    jvbjvb Posts: 210member
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    In my opinion, the reason to upgrade to the next operating system is NOT the big, heavily advertised features. It is the very numerous small "detail" features. This is a bad example because it's not very important and its not really what I consider a "detail" feature per se...but more of one than others... but... Guest accounts.



    What makes you use Guest accounts a lot? Just curious. They have been around on Windows forever and I don't know about others but I find myself to never really use them. It seems like an interesting feature but the need to use it has honestly never come up.
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  • Reply 68 of 73
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    In my opinion, the reason to upgrade to the next operating system is NOT the big, heavily advertised features. It is the very numerous small "detail" features.



    I agree with you there. Like the tiny appearance changes from Panther to Tiger, and the fact that the Tiger Apple Menu is corner activated, while the Panther one wasn't... Etc.
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  • Reply 69 of 73
    icfireballicfireball Posts: 2,594member
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    I agree with you there. Like the tiny appearance changes from Panther to Tiger, and the fact that the Tiger Apple Menu is corner activated, while the Panther one wasn't... Etc.



    Exactly. A few other examples include the mouse-over definitions, improvement to spell-checker and font and style management across the entire OS. Menu bar look is better now. Lots of little stuff.



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    What makes you use Guest accounts a lot? Just curious. They have been around on Windows forever and I don't know about others but I find myself to never really use them. It seems like an interesting feature but the need to use it has honestly never come up.



    The guest account wasn't a very good example, but I probably would use it if I had it. I don't like people using my account and I don't want to create an account just for them. What I was getting at was that it is the little features that continually make the OS more and more robust.
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  • Reply 70 of 73
    jvbjvb Posts: 210member
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    Exactly. A few other examples include the mouse-over definitions, improvement to spell-checker and font and style management across the entire OS. Menu bar look is better now. Lots of little stuff.







    The guest account wasn't a very good example, but I probably would use it if I had it. I don't like people using my account and I don't want to create an account just for them. What I was getting at was that it is the little features that continually make the OS more and more robust.



    Ah, I've found that I usually just let people use my account. But I haven't been in that position much so it's hard to say.
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  • Reply 71 of 73
    I have two accounts on my laptop, one is "Lord of the Root" (for me) and one is "Puny Humans" (for everyone else, requires no password to log in).
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  • Reply 72 of 73
    aplnubaplnub Posts: 2,606member
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    I have two accounts on my laptop, one is "Lord of the Root" (for me) and one is "Puny Humans" (for everyone else, requires no password to log in).



    I have me, my wife, my buddy, and "DJ Chaos" (no password required) so when we party anyone can adjust the playlist. I may use that Lord of the Root. That is pretty good.
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  • Reply 73 of 73
    dacloodacloo Posts: 890member
    I think Time Machine uses a great metaphor: the Z-ax is time, very logical.

    More logical than using X or Y.



    But, they could have left out the stars and other eyecandy. Silly!
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