Comments on: Obligatory Pre-Macworld Post http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/ Open Source, Modern Programming Languages, OS X, Photography, and ... Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:03:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ed http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-10035 Ed Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:57:08 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-10035 Sorry, it is hard to look at a duck and think "chicken"... :) I would like to see laptops announced soon with low power chips and it would be great if Apple was first. I am at a point where I will trade some performance for longer battery life. On my fantasy wish list would be an iPod with a replaceable battery and here I use "replaceable" to mean "a battery that I can replace in a matter of seconds so I can carry a spare." Sorry, it is hard to look at a duck and think “chicken”… :)
I would like to see laptops announced soon with low power chips and it would be great if Apple was first. I am at a point where I will trade some performance for longer battery life.

On my fantasy wish list would be an iPod with a replaceable battery and here I use “replaceable” to mean “a battery that I can replace in a matter of seconds so I can carry a spare.”

]]> By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9921 Ted Leung Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:58:42 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9921 I said I wasn't predicting -- that one's in the category of "read the intel roadmaps"... I said I wasn’t predicting — that one’s in the category of “read the intel roadmaps”…

]]> By: Ed http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9918 Ed Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:55:59 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9918 No predictions of Apple laptops based on Intel's new mobile chips? No predictions of Apple laptops based on Intel’s new mobile chips?

]]> By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9886 Ted Leung Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:13:12 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9886 Chris - I've personally witnessed a number of these problems, so in my case, I don't consider them urban legends. People are having real problems, and many of the people that I know don't have APE or other haxies installed. Chris - I’ve personally witnessed a number of these problems, so in my case, I don’t consider them urban legends. People are having real problems, and many of the people that I know don’t have APE or other haxies installed.

]]> By: Todd Blanchard http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9877 Todd Blanchard Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:27:35 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9877 I notice Mail.app crashes quite a bit more since the upgrade and seems to consume a lot of resources. I've rebuilt various mailboxes a couple times - still seems to have issues. I'd like it a lot if they fixed that. I notice Mail.app crashes quite a bit more since the upgrade and seems to consume a lot of resources. I’ve rebuilt various mailboxes a couple times - still seems to have issues.

I’d like it a lot if they fixed that.

]]> By: Chris Adams http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9869 Chris Adams Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:14:09 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9869 FWIW, most of the Leopard-related reports are either urban legends or more accurately attributed to pre-existing damage and unsupported hacks (e.g. APE). We upgraded a bunch of systems when 10.5 came out to avoid some nasty NFS/automount problems in 10.4 and haven't had any complaints about the upgrade other than the Java performance issues. FWIW, most of the Leopard-related reports are either urban legends or more accurately attributed to pre-existing damage and unsupported hacks (e.g. APE). We upgraded a bunch of systems when 10.5 came out to avoid some nasty NFS/automount problems in 10.4 and haven’t had any complaints about the upgrade other than the Java performance issues.

]]> By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9527 Ted Leung Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:17:32 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9527 John, I prefer my Java IDE's to go fast. Compared to this: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/MacOS_Java_16_Developer_Preview_1.20071120.html, it looks embarrassing. John,

I prefer my Java IDE’s to go fast. Compared to this: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/MacOS_Java_16_Developer_Preview_1.20071120.html, it looks embarrassing.

]]> By: John C. Welch http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9522 John C. Welch Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:03:40 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9522 Not having Java 6 is hardly an embarassment, unless you need to keep up with the joneses as a checkbox. Every single enterprise Java project i'm running is based all on java 1.4, with java 1.5 upgrades in a "if we need it" time frame, and that's all IBM software on Windows talking to mainframes. Java 6 is really not that much of a requirement. Not having Java 6 is hardly an embarassment, unless you need to keep up with the joneses as a checkbox. Every single enterprise Java project i’m running is based all on java 1.4, with java 1.5 upgrades in a “if we need it” time frame, and that’s all IBM software on Windows talking to mainframes.

Java 6 is really not that much of a requirement.

]]> By: Ted Leung http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9500 Ted Leung Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:47:25 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9500 Yes, I am happy about that too. A nice upgrade. Yes, I am happy about that too. A nice upgrade.

]]> By: Paul Brown http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9496 Paul Brown Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:40:18 +0000 http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/01/12/obligatory-pre-macworld-post-2/#comment-9496 I'm just happy that they finally got around to updating the MacPro line (since my PPC desktop hardware died last year). I’m just happy that they finally got around to updating the MacPro line (since my PPC desktop hardware died last year).

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