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If Snow Leopard has no out-of-the-box really obvious new user features, Apple better makes it a free or nominal-mail-a-DVD-priced for Leopard users. Nobody is going to buy it unless the apps that take advantage of its GPGPU facilities are already se…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Cubert Sorry, but you lose. You are confusing application security flaws that can be exploited with system security flaws that can be exploited. The Safari RSS issue you cite is specific to that app. It is the secur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NasserAE No floppy drive, no serial port, no modem.. etc. People usually don't quickly understand why Apple pushes toward specific technology and many times abandon others. What we don't understand is why Apple does…
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I don't know: the last market stats show things being Wii first (by an ample margin), XBox as comfortably second and PS3 third and falling even further back unless its pricing changes. As I see it, OpenCL is not going to help OpenGL one bit. If a…
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It doesn't help that The Chronos Group failed to materialize its promise of OpenGL 3.0 matching DirectX 10's 3D capabilities.
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I don't think the hardware specs are the key here, but Apple's commitment to turn the iPhone into a competitive games platform: having a credible gaming marketing strategy, courting major game developers, developing the next Pokemon phenomenon (Nint…
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A thing to point out about Vista 64: it seems many brand laptop manufacturers actually preinstall 64 bit versions of Vista for their users to be able to use all the preinstalled memory, get a faster system overall and better drivers. It makes sense …
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Also, why pay for Snow Leopard if the SL-aware apps aren't there yet?. Until a smatter of killer 64-bit OpenCL-aware XYZ-whatever apps arrive, one could simply wait for OS X 10.7. Anyway, I am sure Apple will desperately try to invent some new ey…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kim kap sol Did your crystal ball tell you this? Neither Pages nor Keynote have destroyed MsOffice, haven't they? Even Final Cut's success story hasn't destroyed videoediting and compositing on Windows (and one coul…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer Don't be surprised if Apple comes out with a competitor to Photoshop that provides a better workflow than Adobe's flagship application. Apple will give them time to get a port over, but if they continue to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Frank777 Nonsense. Adobe hasn't done anything "to keep the Mac platform alive."... ...their "monstrously large code base" is entirely their fault. They choose to maintain one large code base, building their own graph…
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The "how many Apps" argument is still valid, and mainstream-wise that means how many Cocoa64 apps we have at our disposal. We've got Mathematica, Cinema4D and that's mostly it, I think. The truth is, G5 and subsequent Macs' processors' 64bit abiliti…
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(Ultimately, I think that, as smooth as the transition to 64bitness has been for the OS, narrowing the upgrade from Carbon+Cocoa to Cocoa UI-able apps-only results into a developmental bottleneck which could exclude a lot of heavyweights for years o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Kickaha snafu: care to explain how Cocoa is any worse for cross-platform production than Carbon? They're both proprietary Mac-only APIs, they both can call C and C++... Yes, that is so, but it is easier to map mult…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aegisdesign Not really. Developers have been told repeatedly that the future is Cocoa if it wasn't obvious already. I don't think it was so, really. Non-Cocoa code is alive, growing, and supplying functionality to C…
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A question: could the Mac Pro 2006' 32bit EFI boot system be a problem here in any way? It was the origin of that GPU card upgrade debacle some months ago.
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I'd like to point out that having 64bit addressing is not so much about being able to assign more RAM memory to an app but the app (and the OS' resources it uses) being able to address more than 4 GB of memory AT ALL, be it RAM or Virtual Memory-bas…