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Apple coughs up all 200 new features in ML
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The Power Nap function. The disclaimer at the bottom says:
"2. Power Nap requires a Mac notebook with built-in flash storage. May require a firmware update."
Does this mean only MacBooks shipped with an SSD are compatible, or is my mid-2010 MBP with an aftermarket SSD that I installed going to support this new feature?
"2. Power Nap requires a Mac notebook with built-in flash storage. May require a firmware update."
Does this mean only MacBooks shipped with an SSD are compatible, or is my mid-2010 MBP with an aftermarket SSD that I installed going to support this new feature?
No it wont - it will have to be with a model that offered it as an option natively.
There are a lot of things that I won't give apple the benefit of the doubt on, but the power nap function is most definitely a hardware function, not software. Basically they are designing a new power state outside of the standard ACPI states.
Does anyone know anything about the Gatekeeper?
According to their featurelist, all it seem to do is to check if it's an autorized Apple-developer who made the app you're trying to install.
If that's the case it's not actually good for checking if a downloaded file contains malware since it will only scan it for an Apple Developer-ID and check if he/she is authorized and not actually SCAN the file for malicious code.
According to their featurelist, all it seem to do is to check if it's an autorized Apple-developer who made the app you're trying to install.
If that's the case it's not actually good for checking if a downloaded file contains malware since it will only scan it for an Apple Developer-ID and check if he/she is authorized and not actually SCAN the file for malicious code.
I would agree with you if SSD's weren't so expensive for a size thats actually practical.
He gave several examples on his post. The typing indicator in Messages for instance has been available in iChat for ages. How is that a new feature or even anything "new" worth noticing for that matter?
For when the Space Bar is too difficult.
Isn't there already an option in Screensaver to use the latest photos imported?
The feature almost certainly requires some kind of chipset specific function, as it needs to run while keeping the computer in its lowest power state. Most existing laptops would probably just think they're in use again and start spinning up fans etc.
AirPlay's restriction to chipset features however is a much weaker argument, as many machines could easily support it without the QuickSync instructions, but Apple has decided not to bother, meaning none of the Mac Pros (most of which should be more than powerful enough) get to use it as far as I can tell.
Nor did they say OS X Mountain Lion is a revolution. I think it's a huge step forward, though. Messages IS iChat, just with iMessage support built-in.
I was doing "like" as in Facebook "like" since somebody did +1, haha
Although I do agree with the typing indicator. When I first did iMessages when it came out, and I saw the typing indicator, when I saw it I immediately thought of iChat