I've had experiences with Mac OS X upgrades from Tiger to Leopard and then most recently to Snow Leopard. This latest upgrade to SL has been the crappiest user experience with programs no longer working and printers no longer printing. Parallels 3.0 no longer supported and printing on HP printers problematic.
Still a far cry from the MSFT experience, but it sure did feel like Snow Leopard gave users what I imagine was a near-Vista-like upgrade.
I've had experiences with Mac OS X upgrades from Tiger to Leopard and then most recently to Snow Leopard. This latest upgrade to SL has been the crappiest user experience with programs no longer working and printers no longer printing. Parallels 3.0 no longer supported and printing on HP printers problematic.
Still a far cry from the MSFT experience, but it sure did feel like Snow Leopard gave users what I imagine was a near-Vista-like upgrade.
Parallels screwed up with Leopard Server support they claimed. I know this one personally.
HP printing issues are not with Apple but with what they choose to help with CUPS [Apple now owns, but which covers all of FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc]. The issue resides with HP, not CUPS. The CUPS 1.4 API is public and has been worked on for two years.
Application Developers have had over 12 months to get ready.
Parallels screwed up with Leopard Server support they claimed. I know this one personally.
HP printing issues are not with Apple but with what they choose to help with CUPS [Apple now owns, but which covers all of FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc]. The issue resides with HP, not CUPS. The CUPS 1.4 API is public and has been worked on for two years.
Application Developers have had over 12 months to get ready.
Yes, these are definitely not Apple's fault. CUPS has been around for ten years in the Gnu/UNIX/Linux world and HP should have been on top of it helping the open source community write drivers for their hardware.
I would like to know why Vonage's SoftPhone app for Mac doesn't work with 10.6 (the app runs, but calls cannot be established). The app has not been updated since 10.2 and therefore (obviously) needs Rosetta. Have any old APIs been deprecated in 10.6 that might be called on by SoftPhone? I'm not blaming Apple, as there is no excuse for Vonage not updating SoftPhone, which has been flaky at least since 10.4. I can't remember whether the crashing started with 10.3 or 10.4, but I think it was 10.4. It may have been when I switched from PPC to Intel hardware.
As for a "near-Vista-like upgrade," I had the easiest upgrade experience ever in going to 10.6. The only problems I've had are that SoftPhone is now useless and my Vodaphone USB stick only works with the 32-bit kernel.
Slightly out on a limb and it's been said before in a few places, but does anyone else out there think that it would be possible for Grand Central to further offload processing to Xgrid?
Done properly it should look very similar (to developers) as the current method of "passing threads off" to GCD, or else be completely, invisibly integrated into the GCD setup.
This, of course, would provide the same push behind grid computing as is now behind multithreading.
Slightly out on a limb and it's been said before in a few places, but does anyone else out there think that it would be possible for Grand Central to further offload processing to Xgrid?
Done properly it should look very similar (to developers) as the current method of "passing threads off" to GCD, or else be completely, invisibly integrated into the GCD setup.
This, of course, would provide the same push behind grid computing as is now behind multithreading.
Yes, these are definitely not Apple's fault. CUPS has been around for ten years in the Gnu/UNIX/Linux world and HP should have been on top of it helping the open source community write drivers for their hardware.
I would like to know why Vonage's SoftPhone app for Mac doesn't work with 10.6 (the app runs, but calls cannot be established). The app has not been updated since 10.2 and therefore (obviously) needs Rosetta. Have any old APIs been deprecated in 10.6 that might be called on by SoftPhone? I'm not blaming Apple, as there is no excuse for Vonage not updating SoftPhone, which has been flaky at least since 10.4. I can't remember whether the crashing started with 10.3 or 10.4, but I think it was 10.4. It may have been when I switched from PPC to Intel hardware.
As for a "near-Vista-like upgrade," I had the easiest upgrade experience ever in going to 10.6. The only problems I've had are that SoftPhone is now useless and my Vodaphone USB stick only works with the 32-bit kernel.
Quite a few APIs have been deprecated. I'd be interested in seeing just exactly what low level Networking APIs that application still depends upon. You should contact Vonage and inquire about it.
I think 10.7 should have no aqua interface because it is getting kind of old. I think they should let you chose your themes like on windows and should be cross platform to work on Mac and Windows which may never happen but it could be a possibility. I think that it should have a way to chose the style of your dock because I am bored of the dock that is default on Mac OSX 10.1 to 10.6.1.
The thing is that up to now they have chosen names for animals that actually exist ... not too sure about "Clouded Leopard" or " Sky Leopard", but what about Cheetah? ... The fastest cat of them all!
I would love that as a cat name. I think Sky Leopard would be funny. But cloud leopard sounds cool
Expect to see subtle underpinnings being discovered in early developer builds of OS X 10.7 that will bring into question Apples eventual intention to migrate OS X into the same AppStore type system that the iPhone and iPod Touch are constrained by.
You heard it here first...
Oh just so my post isn't so dark...
Lets guess the apx release date...
Taken From the OS X Wiki:
------------------------------
10.0 -> 10.1 took 185 days (6 months)
10.1 -> 10.2 took 332 days (10 months)
10.2 -> 10.3 took 427 days (14 months)
10.3 -> 10.4 took 553 days (18 months)
10.4 -> 10.5 took 910 days (29 months)
10.5 -> 10.6 took 672 days (22 months)
------------------------------
So for me:
10.6 -> 10.7 estimate 711 days (23 months)
AKA: August 9th 2011 (probably delayed till 'end of summer')
Which fits in well with the following:
OS X 10.7 developer preview @ WWDC 2010 and apx 12 months later the GM.
I care about features, not names, but I'll point out that the widely-known names of big cats that haven't been used yet are Cougar, Lion, and Lynx.
I continue to believe that 10.7 will first be announced at WWDC 2010 and will ship sometime in 2011. I also believe that 10.7 will drop support for 32-bit CPUs i.e. Core Solo and Core Duo (Core 2 Duo are 64-bit and I'm confident will run 10.7).
I'm slightly less confident that (on hardware with 64-bit EFI) 64-bit kernels will boot by default. It will depend on how much progress there is with 64-bit drivers. For example, I have a USB stick GSM modem which only works if I boot with a 32-bit kernel. Will Vodaphone update the firmware with a 64-bit kext? I have no idea.
I'm slightly less confident that (on hardware with 64-bit EFI) 64-bit kernels will boot by default. It will depend on how much progress there is with 64-bit drivers. For example, I have a USB stick GSM modem which only works if I boot with a 32-bit kernel. Will Vodaphone update the firmware with a 64-bit kext? I have no idea.
Currently, not all 64-bit Core 2 Duo CPUs with 64-bit EFI are enabled to load a 64-bit kernel. I know, because my iMac 7,1 (mid 2007) is in this situation. It seems that Apple has enabled a subset of machines with a 64-bit CPU and 64-bit EFI and I've never been able to clarify exactly why. Penryn (about early 2008) is enabled but not any CPUs before that (as I understand it). Given this situation, I would think that 10.7 could support 32-bit kernels, and perhaps that support will be dropped in 10.8. On second thought, if 10.7 came out in 8/11, the aforementioned iMac would be 4 years old, and it is not unheard of for Apple to start dropping support for machines of about that age.
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Good catch. I didn't think that through; especially the 1GB minimum requirement. Thanks.
I think with the current prices of memory, all new Macs (even the Mac Mini) will be shipping with 4GB or more by the time 10.7 ships.
Still a far cry from the MSFT experience, but it sure did feel like Snow Leopard gave users what I imagine was a near-Vista-like upgrade.
I've had experiences with Mac OS X upgrades from Tiger to Leopard and then most recently to Snow Leopard. This latest upgrade to SL has been the crappiest user experience with programs no longer working and printers no longer printing. Parallels 3.0 no longer supported and printing on HP printers problematic.
Still a far cry from the MSFT experience, but it sure did feel like Snow Leopard gave users what I imagine was a near-Vista-like upgrade.
Parallels screwed up with Leopard Server support they claimed. I know this one personally.
HP printing issues are not with Apple but with what they choose to help with CUPS [Apple now owns, but which covers all of FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc]. The issue resides with HP, not CUPS. The CUPS 1.4 API is public and has been worked on for two years.
Application Developers have had over 12 months to get ready.
Parallels screwed up with Leopard Server support they claimed. I know this one personally.
HP printing issues are not with Apple but with what they choose to help with CUPS [Apple now owns, but which covers all of FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, etc]. The issue resides with HP, not CUPS. The CUPS 1.4 API is public and has been worked on for two years.
Application Developers have had over 12 months to get ready.
Yes, these are definitely not Apple's fault. CUPS has been around for ten years in the Gnu/UNIX/Linux world and HP should have been on top of it helping the open source community write drivers for their hardware.
I would like to know why Vonage's SoftPhone app for Mac doesn't work with 10.6 (the app runs, but calls cannot be established). The app has not been updated since 10.2 and therefore (obviously) needs Rosetta. Have any old APIs been deprecated in 10.6 that might be called on by SoftPhone? I'm not blaming Apple, as there is no excuse for Vonage not updating SoftPhone, which has been flaky at least since 10.4. I can't remember whether the crashing started with 10.3 or 10.4, but I think it was 10.4. It may have been when I switched from PPC to Intel hardware.
As for a "near-Vista-like upgrade," I had the easiest upgrade experience ever in going to 10.6. The only problems I've had are that SoftPhone is now useless and my Vodaphone USB stick only works with the 32-bit kernel.
Done properly it should look very similar (to developers) as the current method of "passing threads off" to GCD, or else be completely, invisibly integrated into the GCD setup.
This, of course, would provide the same push behind grid computing as is now behind multithreading.
I really hope Apple does things in this space.
lion
/s'obvious
I think it will the name of the last version of OS X.
Slightly out on a limb and it's been said before in a few places, but does anyone else out there think that it would be possible for Grand Central to further offload processing to Xgrid?
Done properly it should look very similar (to developers) as the current method of "passing threads off" to GCD, or else be completely, invisibly integrated into the GCD setup.
This, of course, would provide the same push behind grid computing as is now behind multithreading.
I really hope Apple does things in this space.
As a Service, yes. Via integration? No.
Yes, these are definitely not Apple's fault. CUPS has been around for ten years in the Gnu/UNIX/Linux world and HP should have been on top of it helping the open source community write drivers for their hardware.
I would like to know why Vonage's SoftPhone app for Mac doesn't work with 10.6 (the app runs, but calls cannot be established). The app has not been updated since 10.2 and therefore (obviously) needs Rosetta. Have any old APIs been deprecated in 10.6 that might be called on by SoftPhone? I'm not blaming Apple, as there is no excuse for Vonage not updating SoftPhone, which has been flaky at least since 10.4. I can't remember whether the crashing started with 10.3 or 10.4, but I think it was 10.4. It may have been when I switched from PPC to Intel hardware.
As for a "near-Vista-like upgrade," I had the easiest upgrade experience ever in going to 10.6. The only problems I've had are that SoftPhone is now useless and my Vodaphone USB stick only works with the 32-bit kernel.
Quite a few APIs have been deprecated. I'd be interested in seeing just exactly what low level Networking APIs that application still depends upon. You should contact Vonage and inquire about it.
The thing is that up to now they have chosen names for animals that actually exist ... not too sure about "Clouded Leopard" or " Sky Leopard", but what about Cheetah? ... The fastest cat of them all!
I would love that as a cat name. I think Sky Leopard would be funny. But cloud leopard sounds cool
but what about Cheetah? ... The fastest cat of them all!
What about Cheetah? It was the name of Mac OS 10.0
What about Cheetah? It was the name of Mac OS 10.0
And was the slowest cat.
Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and now Snow Leopard
What is left? (thanks to wikipedia)
Extant species
Lion
Cheetah
Jaguar
Eurasian Lynx
Margay
Wild Cat
FAMILY FELIDAE[1]
Subfamily Felinae
Genus Felis
Chinese Mountain Cat (Felis bieti)
Domestic Cat (Felis catus)
Jungle Cat (Felis chaus)
Sand Cat (Felis margarita)
Black-footed Cat (Felis nigripes)
Wild Cat (Felis silvestris)
Genus Otocolobus
Pallas's Cat (Otocolobus manul)
Genus Prionailurus
Leopard Cat (Prionailurus bengalensis)
Iriomote Cat (Prionailurus iriomotensis)
Flat-headed Cat (Prionailurus planiceps)
Rusty-spotted Cat (Prionailurus rubiginosus)
Fishing Cat (Prionailurus viverrinus)
Genus Puma
Cougar (Puma concolor)
Jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi)
Genus Lynx
Canadian Lynx (Lynx canadensis)
Eurasian Lynx (Lynx lynx)
Iberian Lynx (Lynx pardinus)
Bobcat (Lynx rufus)
Genus Leopardus
Pantanal Cat (Leopardus braccatus)
Colocolo (Leopardus colocolo)
Geoffroy's Cat (Leopardus geoffroyi)
Kodkod (Leopardus guigna)
Andean Mountain Cat (Leopardus jacobitus)
Pampas Cat (Leopardus pajeros)
Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis)
Oncilla (Leopardus tigrinus)
Margay (Leopardus wiedii)
Genus Leptailurus
Serval (Leptailurus serval)
Genus Caracal
Caracal (Caracal caracal)
Genus Profelis
African Golden Cat (Profelis aurata)
Genus Catopuma
Bay Cat (Catopuma badia)
Asian Golden Cat (Catopuma temminckii)
Genus Pardofelis
Marbled Cat (Pardofelis marmorata)
Genus Acinonyx[6]
Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
Subfamily Pantherinae
Genus Neofelis
Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
Bornean Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi)
Genus Panthera
Lion (Panthera leo)
Jaguar (Panthera onca)
Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Tiger (Panthera tigris)
Genus Uncia
Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
Oh and my Favourite: Sabertooth
We now know ZFS is a no go.
I figure we'll see a new modern fs for OS X delivered with 10.7 which will provide the
basis for a much better Time Machine.
Also think I'll get something like my "user" metadata. Apple will probably clean up a lot of the underlaying "spaghetti"
Resolution Independence should finally rear it's head. I'm sensing that the next few years is going to deliver some nice resolution bumps to displays.
Looking into my crystal ball...
Expect to see subtle underpinnings being discovered in early developer builds of OS X 10.7 that will bring into question Apples eventual intention to migrate OS X into the same AppStore type system that the iPhone and iPod Touch are constrained by.
You heard it here first...
Oh just so my post isn't so dark...
Lets guess the apx release date...
Taken From the OS X Wiki:
------------------------------
10.0 -> 10.1 took 185 days (6 months)
10.1 -> 10.2 took 332 days (10 months)
10.2 -> 10.3 took 427 days (14 months)
10.3 -> 10.4 took 553 days (18 months)
10.4 -> 10.5 took 910 days (29 months)
10.5 -> 10.6 took 672 days (22 months)
------------------------------
So for me:
10.6 -> 10.7 estimate 711 days (23 months)
AKA: August 9th 2011 (probably delayed till 'end of summer')
Which fits in well with the following:
OS X 10.7 developer preview @ WWDC 2010 and apx 12 months later the GM.
I continue to believe that 10.7 will first be announced at WWDC 2010 and will ship sometime in 2011. I also believe that 10.7 will drop support for 32-bit CPUs i.e. Core Solo and Core Duo (Core 2 Duo are 64-bit and I'm confident will run 10.7).
I'm slightly less confident that (on hardware with 64-bit EFI) 64-bit kernels will boot by default. It will depend on how much progress there is with 64-bit drivers. For example, I have a USB stick GSM modem which only works if I boot with a 32-bit kernel. Will Vodaphone update the firmware with a 64-bit kext? I have no idea.
I'm slightly less confident that (on hardware with 64-bit EFI) 64-bit kernels will boot by default. It will depend on how much progress there is with 64-bit drivers. For example, I have a USB stick GSM modem which only works if I boot with a 32-bit kernel. Will Vodaphone update the firmware with a 64-bit kext? I have no idea.
Currently, not all 64-bit Core 2 Duo CPUs with 64-bit EFI are enabled to load a 64-bit kernel. I know, because my iMac 7,1 (mid 2007) is in this situation. It seems that Apple has enabled a subset of machines with a 64-bit CPU and 64-bit EFI and I've never been able to clarify exactly why. Penryn (about early 2008) is enabled but not any CPUs before that (as I understand it). Given this situation, I would think that 10.7 could support 32-bit kernels, and perhaps that support will be dropped in 10.8. On second thought, if 10.7 came out in 8/11, the aforementioned iMac would be 4 years old, and it is not unheard of for Apple to start dropping support for machines of about that age.