The Apple thread

[fritx]

The 10.5.2 seems to have fixed the Safari app crash I was having on my Octo (but strangely not on the MBPro).
It was so bad (1 or 2 crashes a day) that I was considering booting out Safari and using Firefox instead. Seems something has been fixed: no Safari crashes since the update

[flookster]

Pippin reborn?

[disciple]

Timeless!

[Dave]

Timeless!

I know. Everybody knows that a game system powered by Power PC architecture is doomed to failure.

[JQW]

The 10.5.2 seems to have fixed the Safari app crash I was having on my Octo (but strangely not on the MBPro).
It was so bad (1 or 2 crashes a day) that I was considering booting out Safari and using Firefox instead. Seems something has been fixed: no Safari crashes since the update

Safari will get better once Apple include some of the newer features from the open source Webkit project into Safari 3.1. Seeds of Safari 3.1 are already out there to be tested, apparently, so it's probably not too far away. I've no idea as to whether it'll be a stand-alone update or incorporated into a future point release of Mac OS X 10.5

[matt]

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08 ... eshes.html

Looks like new MBPs in a couple of weeks.

[WiteWulf]

About bloody time...my manager agreed on me getting a new laptop before Christmas and I've been waiting for the the new MBPs to hit since then

[piku]

I've just come back off half term holiday. My god, I think the Apple disease is spreading... all the IT technicians have acquired 20 inch iMacs and replaced their Vista and Xp machines with them.

Is Virtual PC for the Mac any good? I have a few PC images done in the Windows version of Virtual PC and it'd be nice to not have to run them through the VMware converter.

[RiK]

I've just come back off half term holiday. My god, I think the Apple disease is spreading... all the IT technicians have acquired 20 inch iMacs and replaced their Vista and Xp machines with them.

Is Virtual PC for the Mac any good? I have a few PC images done in the Windows version of Virtual PC and it'd be nice to not have to run them through the VMware converter.

Virtual PC doesn't work on the Intel Macs, only the old G5s.

On an Intel box, you've got the dual-boot option via boot camp, or a virtual machine with VMWare fusion, or Parallels desktop.

I'm going to give Fusion a go I think..

[piku]

I've just come back off half term holiday. My god, I think the Apple disease is spreading... all the IT technicians have acquired 20 inch iMacs and replaced their Vista and Xp machines with them.

Is Virtual PC for the Mac any good? I have a few PC images done in the Windows version of Virtual PC and it'd be nice to not have to run them through the VMware converter.

Virtual PC doesn't work on the Intel Macs, only the old G5s.

That's OK then. I couldn't really be bothered converting my VMWare images back to Virtual PC ones. I'll save up my pennies and register VMWare Fusion when I get paid next. It is a magical thing and I like it a lot.

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I know. Everybody knows that a game system powered by Power PC architecture is doomed to failure.

Like the X360, PS3 and Wii?

[WiteWulf]

Hopefully Apple will get off the fence and start putting BD drives in Macs now the war's over...

[Rod_S]

Hopefully Apple will get off the fence and start putting BD drives in Macs now the war's over...

Would you be surprised if they were working on their own format? iRayHD?

Boom.

[amanset]

GET IN.

Time Machine just saved my arse. The latest version of a widget I do - last looked at in January - suddenly was only 8K on the disk rather than the usual 400 or so. The feeling of joy when clicking that restore button. Oh yes. How glad am I that I got that new external HD?

[GeeZa]

Hopefully Apple will get off the fence and start putting BD drives in Macs now the war's over...

Would you be surprised if they were working on their own format? iRayHD?

Boom.

Not really sure what to give that out of ten tbh. I was thinking something between 2 and 5.