The Apple thread

kalmar · Post by **kalmar** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:55 pm 0

The groundbreaking innovations of Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone OS offer two revolutionary development platforms?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:02 pm 0

...and the Golden Gate bridge is a landmark, therefore there are two of them to represent there being more than one landmark.

Think different, dude

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:03 pm 0

Interesting. First thing you see is two bridges, but I also see two uprights.

OS XI maybe ? WWDC would be the place to announce it, and not long after after Leopard shipped would be the time. It's about time they bumped the major revision number.

piku · Post by **piku** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:48 pm 0

Deckard wrote:Ummmmm why 2 bridges...?

Because you'll need to fork your code to make it run correctly on an iPhone and a Touch. Or you'll have to do the same thing twice.

*wanders off chanting 'I do not want a Touch... I do not want a Touch'

Post by **RiK** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:58 pm 0

sty wrote:Given most macs don't have it, and I would imaging Apple really would love devs to buy Powermacs (cost etc.) then I can't see them supporting multitouch just yet just for code development.

Think you're a bit behind the times now John, the Mini is probably more powerful that our old Powermacs

My 8-core Mac Pro however, is lovely

gravy · Post by **gravy** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:03 pm 0

Could be Windows being more integrated.

There's some evidence that Apple have been working on getting Windows apps running natively:

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/ ... ard-i.html

Post by **RiK** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:14 pm 0

They've been talking about that possibility for a while now.

Nice idea, though it has to be said I've really not felt the need to run any windows apps since switching.

I've got the Fusion trial installed but really only for geek value.

Post by **RiK** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:20 pm 0

sty wrote: So I temporarily took out my 350G 2nd drive, popped in the new one, CCC cloned my 160G to the 500G, swapped the drives round and popped the 350G back in and rebooted - and renamed the 500G from "Untitled" to "John".

You don't need to physically switch the drives around John. You can just change the boot device in System Preferences.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 6:09 pm 0

Just installing Parallels - Are there any security issues / things you recommend I do with it to keep my Mac fine as wont be using it a lot.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:45 pm 0

I don't think there's much you need to do to keep the Mac safe but be sure to install antivirus on your Windows virtual machine.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:51 pm 0

Actually it prompted me to update its own preinstalled one that came with it which did a complete system check and now seeems to be burbling away quite happily. The whole XP/emulation thing has been pretty painless and very easy to use

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WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:15 pm 0

Yeah, I popped VMware Fusion on the Macbook Pro on Friday and was blown away by how fast and smooth it is.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:33 pm 0

Reet...only had the new MBP since Tuesday and already I've had to hard power it off 5 or 6 times due to iTunes locking the machine up tighter than a nun's chastity belt

At least 5 other people have posted about the same problem in the Apple support forums so it seems I'm not the only one and, strangely, they all have MBPs, too.

Any of you lot had this problem?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 5&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 4&tstart=0

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:11 pm 0

WiteWulf wrote:Any of you lot had this problem?

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 5&tstart=0

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 4&tstart=0

Not specifically (I'm on a MacBook anyway) but I have definitely found Leopard iTunes to be mostly annoying. My machine has locked up once, but more than anything else iTunes just seems slow and unstable. Adding artwork is often torture, and even syncing my iPod with 50 tracks took ages last night. Are you using an external USB drive or anything like that? I was wondering if there's still some nasty hangover with the drivers. Added to that Parallels 2.0 (I've not upgraded) is rather hit-and-miss under Leopard, mostly hit, but it will occasionally lock up the machine when started.

This is the first time in *years* that I'd actually consider using a different music management app under OSX, and I'd pay for it.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:53 pm 0

Yeah, it's a right cunt

I've found playing things off an external USB2 drive to be very hit and miss, while playing off my ancient 3g iPod connected via USB2 to be fine so far. Which is mighty strange.

Oh and Geeza, Parallels Desktop 3 seems to be mostly fine after Leopard, but I've been devving a bit in visual studio under parallels and had a couple of times where parallels has terminated and left OS X in a partially broken state (Safari completely stopped rendering anything properly) requiring a reboot to fix. Also VMWare Fusion is supposed to be a whole load faster.

Anyone know if there's a trial of Fusion, and if it can migrate Parallels VMs - I can't really be bothered to set up Windows again, but if I can get Fusion for a decent Student Friendly price then I might be tempted as Parallels seems great for regular boring things (running Nokia Backup software or video chatting using Windows LIve Messenger) but when scratching a bit below the surface it is now seeming to struggle

Cheers

Bubba

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