Was that the job opening where the ad said they were looking for people who want to create something that's never been done before? If so, I remember that.
Maybe it wasn't for Lion, and those people got hired into another department
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Was that the job opening where the ad said they were looking for people who want to create something that's never been done before? If so, I remember that.
Maybe it wasn't for Lion, and those people got hired into another department
Yes, I'm new.
I just upgraded my 15 inch MacBook Pro to a 13inch MacBook Air. I personally feel lion is zipping a long even faster on the Air. It continuously hung up on my pro.
You know I just read thru this whole debate and everyone complaining about launch pad and no one even mentioned gestures.
You're missing the point. GESTURES, Apple doesn't give a rip about context menus and right clicking.
I normally use a Logitech MX performance mouse, but the launch pad is pretty quick when you start using gestures. I'd be it's quicker than spotlight.
I know, heresy right.
But for finger pinch brings up Launchpad.
Lets also not forget the Magic Trackpad, now being sold with iMacs, used to be an upgrade, now it's either or with the magic mouse.
Gestures, touch, that's the direction they are heading. You're not factoring it into your thinking. Does it suck for your current way of doing things, yes.
But I think down the road, we'll be using more and more gestures.
Although I will admit the gestures are a little more difficult on my Air vs my MacBook Pro.
Oh and btw, the guy talking about the displays. 100% dead on. I had my MacBook Pro docked in a Henge Dock 90% of the time and connected to a 30 inch Cinema Display I got off ebay. Worked beautifully for my graphic design work and my photography hobby.
I have a home office with a lot of windows, and glass displays are not appealing.
It seems as Apple used being trendy and hip to revitalize itself and now it's completely moved into the consumer market and away from those segments that originally supported it the most.
I just upgraded my 15 inch MacBook Pro to a 13inch MacBook Air. I personally feel lion is zipping a long even faster on the Air. It continuously hung up on my pro.
You know I just read thru this whole debate and everyone complaining about launch pad and no one even mentioned gestures.
You're missing the point. GESTURES, Apple doesn't give a rip about context menus and right clicking.
I normally use a Logitech MX performance mouse, but the launch pad is pretty quick when you start using gestures. I'd be it's quicker than spotlight.
I know, heresy right.
But for finger pinch brings up Launchpad.
Lets also not forget the Magic Trackpad, now being sold with iMacs, used to be an upgrade, now it's either or with the magic mouse.
Gestures, touch, that's the direction they are heading. You're not factoring it into your thinking. Does it suck for your current way of doing things, yes.
But I think down the road, we'll be using more and more gestures.
Although I will admit the gestures are a little more difficult on my Air vs my MacBook Pro.
Oh and btw, the guy talking about the displays. 100% dead on. I had my MacBook Pro docked in a Henge Dock 90% of the time and connected to a 30 inch Cinema Display I got off ebay. Worked beautifully for my graphic design work and my photography hobby.
I have a home office with a lot of windows, and glass displays are not appealing.
It seems as Apple used being trendy and hip to revitalize itself and now it's completely moved into the consumer market and away from those segments that originally supported it the most.
Spot on. My issue(s) isn't/aren't so much w/ Lion (it's faster, smaller footprint and does have some better incorporated features) but w/ Apple's discontinuation of their GREAT hardware for professionals.
The display line being one. The LED LCD display is a great buy, esp for LED backlit panels. As a graphic and film designer/editor I loved the ACD CCFL LCD anti-glare line (had 2 x 23" ACD displays w/ my Power Mac G's then Mac Pro's). Both lasted 7 years! I debated the 24" LED LCD for glare issues, spent mo's researching and tried 2 24" Dell displays (horrible, dead pixels, uneven panels). Dell was GREAT at a full refund. I need two so EIZO's were out. bought the Apple 24" LED LCD and placed it next to one of my 23" CCFL LCD's and loved it. The anti-glare displays tend to diffuse pixels while the Apple display (it's not "glossy", just a glass front without anti-glare finish) allows for more color accuracy/editing.
I got another 24" when they went on sale as the 24" iMac was replaced w/ the 27" (Apple uses the same LED LCD panel in the larger iMac's which is why there is only 1 display now offered). The glare isn't an issue, but I got a hood (examples: Computer Monitor Hoods) that almost all professionals use any ways.
Otherwise, agreed. The discontinuation of a dedicated display line, Xserve, expensive Mac Pro's (my old design/architecture firm used PowerMac's as they were affordable, but couldn't afford Mac Pro's due to the leap in price), etc. doesn't bode well for us (consumers and new-comers to Apple may not understand our stance).
Oh well, Apple is doing well and going after the larger consumer market. Some claim the professional market is smaller, sure, but when businesses buy in larger quantities (such as 5, 10, even 20 Mac's) it adds up, so quantity of purchases counters the smaller market. Using some of that $50 billion to develop more displays to sell with their Mac Mini's and Mac Pro's instead of 1 27" model with short cables (and an odd screen ratio) and not enough ports or an anti-glare option means people will either hesitate in buying a Mini or Pro as they don't have a display or want to buy one elsewhere or perhaps will buy 'em elsewhere. Either way, it wouldn't be a fail but a win/win.
It actually becomes harder to track all the different threads on exactly the same subject.
Mikekey, you might be new. But you totally Get It™. Reading these forums you'd think the world was populated with neckbearded cave trolls sometimes.
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Simple, because he just wanted to:
1. Be the star of this one.
2. Create more confusion.
<sarcasm>And having multiple threads on the same topic is just so much better because it reduces "cross posting" </sarcasm>
Well clearly now if someone isn't that impressed and wants to share it they have to check this thread as well for relevance along with the other 3 or 4.
The real point here is that you felt compelled to make a new thread you were the starter of, opposed to just discuss in another thread. It's nothing more than an e-ego.
I second this. What is going on? Is Apple going to extend TRIM support to all SSD's? It seems to me its really a trivial switch to flip. I am a hair trigger away from buying one for my Macbook.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Trim support didn't really matter as long as you get a Sandforce drive, because the Sandforce firmware effectively accomplishes the same thing.
It does but it is not as efficient as OS level trim, resulting in premature drive death.
Edit: It's also worth noting that I work for Intel so I get hefty discounts on Intel products, so I'd prefer to stay in house.
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Psh, I didn't think what you said was rude. If I had a cool SSD engineer as a roommate, I'd probably brag about him too.
@Cougar: Hah, ninja edit made your post make NO sense
Trim is a way for the OS to communicate with the SSD and tell it when it is no longer using sectors so that the SSD may more effectively schedule writes and deletes so that drive speed is maintained, fragmentation stays low, and writes are minimized.
Trim is a way for the OS to communicate with the SSD and tell it when it is no longer using sectors so that the SSD may more effectively schedule writes and deletes so that drive speed is maintained, fragmentation stays low, and writes are minimized.
Actually I don't think it has anything to do with fragmentation or timing your writes.
Straight from wiki
"TRIM enables the SSD to handle garbage collection overhead, that would otherwise significantly slow down future write operations to the involved blocks, in advance."
I consider myself to be a "normal user", and I use Spotlight like it's going out of fashion
Don't think I'll use Lanuchpad... seems silly!Mission control looks good though! It's going to take a while to get used to though. I just love Exposé!