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What new features do you want in "PANTHER" 10.3

Re: discount

Originally posted by daveg5
discount for new cpu buyers and jag users
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This is my biggest request! these $129 updates are tough! At least give us 1 free 10.x update for free since we went and spent $130 on Jag. If Apple did this or at least gave a significant discount for Jag users, I wouldn't have a problem paying $130 for 10.4...


Anyway, that's just me addressing my personal feelings about it. I'm a new college student and I had to pay $129 for Jag (I was a senior in HS at the time) and even though I get a student discount, I need all the money I can get.



Lastly, a built in FTP revamp would be a godsend.
 
Re: Re: discount

Originally posted by Mac til death
This is my biggest request! these $129 updates are tough! At least give us 1 free 10.x update for free since we went and spent $130 on Jag. If Apple did this or at least gave a significant discount for Jag users, I wouldn't have a problem paying $130 for 10.4...


Anyway, that's just me addressing my personal feelings about it. I'm a new college student and I had to pay $129 for Jag (I was a senior in HS at the time) and even though I get a student discount, I need all the money I can get.



Lastly, a built in FTP revamp would be a godsend.
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College and elementary and high school students only pay $70 for the operating system from the Apple Store for education.

Apple will in all likelihood follow its mantra from the past:

1. Offer $20 upgrade package to the next operating system within a month, and maybe longer before the actual release of the operating system. This is their up-to-date program. Essentially if you buy a computer a month or less prior to the release of the new operating system to retail, it is only $20.

2. It will continue to offer the upgrade package of $20 up to three months after the release of the new operating system to those who buy new machines that had been in the warehouse prior to the release of the operating system. I.e. if they release the operating system retail December 1st, you could probably buy a new machine from November 1st to February first and be able to get the $20 upgrade package. These dates are completely arbitrary, and based on the pattern Apple has released operating system upgrades in the past. Once Apple releases a specific release date, you can probably hope for an up-to-date program to begin at that time.

3. Of course if your machine left the factory after December 1st or whatever the release date is, it would have the operating system freely on it with full install disks.

4. Full install disks will probably be the only way you can do an install from scratch, or an Archive and Install which is described on <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120>. Hopefully Apple will be able to offer Archive and Install on the upgrade disks mentioned in 1 and 2, and I would hope everyone here submits feedback to Apple to suggest that they should <http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback>. This really helps in troubleshooting system wide preference issues.
 
My wishes for Panther:

1. Good FTP support in the Finder. The only problem with that is then I wouldn't use Terminal for my FTP needs, so I couldn't impress my friends with how much I use UNIX.

2. Better public APIs for the Dock and Menulets for developers. Specifically, I'd like multiple docks to work like the single dock does (cool animations, etc.) and I'd like third-party Menulets to be draggable just like the first-party Menulets.

3. More speed.

4. The ability to make womens' skirts fly up via AirPort when I walk past. ;)

Edit: I really hate UBBCode.
 
Originally posted by Daveman Deluxe
Bite me, Mr. Semantics. :rolleyes:
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Just having some fun, Mr. Deluxe. :p

Lighten up. :rolleyes:
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As far as my Panther wishes go, speed and stability are mainly it. FTP improvements would be welcome, too.
 
Originally posted by robbieduncan
This is not really mutliple user login as you are logging out. The Unix/Linux graphical enviroment term for this is Session memory. KDE for example rembers all the apps you have open, where they are the documents you have open when you logout. When you log back in it starts them all up as they were.
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Well as I understand the OSX fast user switching it keeps your apps running so in affect it IS multiple user logging. Instead of having a bunch of users logged in at once though and leaving each user open to be tampered with by any other user after switching OSX locks the user account that was switched from but still continues to run the processes for that account.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
Well as I understand the OSX fast user switching it keeps your apps running so in affect it IS multiple user logging. Instead of having a bunch of users logged in at once though and leaving each user open to be tampered with by any other user after switching OSX locks the user account that was switched from but still continues to run the processes for that account.
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It does. I'm running Panther now and have tried it. But the poster I replied to specifically mentioned logging off and having the system remember the state of his apps. I would like this in addition to Fast User Switching. Even better would be the ability to save the state to disk so I could shut down my iBook (for flying say) and have it start up with all my apps exactly as they were before (including half finished tasks starting from exactly where they were).
 
There are many things which would be welcome fixes/conveniences, but my number one thing is for the Finder to be able to handle very large numbers of files.
For example, I routinely have to sort folders that contain hundreds of files, moving them from folder to folder...X is freekin' horrendous at this, even on a dual 1.25 machine. I have even seen the beachball when trying to move LESS than a hundred files...this is so ridiculous that I must re-boot into 9 just to do my sorting, and that's the ONLY reason I keep a 9.2 partition. Unbelievable. I don't understand what the problem is; I suspect that this is a byproduct of UNIX, and that there may be considerable work that has to happen to make the Finder function acceptably. Fixing this one problem will finally allow me to work in X 100% of the time. Of all the things I can think of to improve, only the Finder stands out in my mind as a Priority-One, Code-Red issue...
 
Finder is pretty good. It can load 600 odd files (my prefs folder) in about seven seconds first time in the session and about one second there after.
 
Originally posted by robbieduncan
It does. I'm running Panther now and have tried it. But the poster I replied to specifically mentioned logging off and having the system remember the state of his apps. I would like this in addition to Fast User Switching. Even better would be the ability to save the state to disk so I could shut down my iBook (for flying say) and have it start up with all my apps exactly as they were before (including half finished tasks starting from exactly where they were).
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Agreed having at least desktop preservation would be fantastic now if it would also save your place in processes too that would be great. Apple had a function similar to this in beta versions of OS9 but chose not to implement it in the final versions. It preserved the volatile memory so startup was like 4 seconds instead of a minute on the machines back then. I don't really care if it saves all the volatile memory I think it would be cool if it even had to reload the apps as long as it were capable of continuing where it left off.
 
I like a lot of the ideas mentioned, but I think the biggest whole in the OS right now is iCal. It is embarassingly bad.

I would use Entourage if it weren't for the proprietary file format. I suffer with iCal.
 
I sent in a suggestion a week or two ago through the Apple Backup suggestion link. What it said was basically I think that Backup should keep a log of what was backed up on CD or DVD and have a way to compare those items to the current drive state and give you a way to just backup the changed and new items to disk.

I don't like retrospect because it uses backup sets which requires you to decompress or reinstall the whole set. I haven't seen a way to see what's inside a set and just reinstall one item. That's creates a lot of work for such a simple task. Apples Backup actually backs up the individual files so I can restore just what I want to. I just wish it did apps. Maybe someone will hack it so it will. Oh, well for now I just backup my shareware manually.
 
I have 2 monitors. Sometimes I'll put an app's window on the monitor w/o the menu bar on it. This necessitates a long sweep of the mouse to access menus. I would like for there to be a menu bar on both my monitors.

- David
 
I was just looking at movie showtimes in sherlock and i thought it'd be nice if there was a direct link to reviews of the movie. also a "favorite theatres" link would be nice...
 
Originally posted by DavidFDM
I have 2 monitors. Sometimes I'll put an app's window on the monitor w/o the menu bar on it. This necessitates a long sweep of the mouse to access menus. I would like for there to be a menu bar on both my monitors.

- David
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what would be really cool is if the menu bar just jumped from one screen to the next based on where your mouse was along with say with a mouse button combination or key combination. You could have one screen say all to a window with no wasted space from the menu bar but if you needed the menu bar you could hit the space bar and click the left mouse button at the same time and the menu bar would jump to that screen.
 
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