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Oct 01, 08 - 11:53 am Comment from: Macintosher

Hmmm....
He's missing out the Brick rumors. And it's hardly a few weeks. Oh, I so want Snow Leopard. Maybe it has added capabilities for a tablet that'll be announced in October. Or a hybrid version, or LCD trackpad assistance

Oct 01, 08 - 11:58 am Comment from: Cubert

The Cube is Revived!

For some reason my girlfriend (yes, she still is, too) decided that it would be a good idea to turn it upside down while running to unplug the speakers that are attached to it. Not good. I thought the hard drive had crashed, but turning it over and messing with anything I could mess with somehow fixed it.

Yes! Another 8 years!

That's great Cubert. I don't suppose you could turn the MDN site upside down and see if you can get that to work any better. After God knows how many 'improvements' it still runs like treacle.

Oct 01, 08 - 12:18 pm Comment from: DJ

That's because there are at least 15 ads on every page. Greedy?

"Mac OS X 10.5[.6] Leopard operating system [...] has been rumored to include native Blu-ray support"

Just like 10.5.5, 10.5.4, 10.5.3...

If you keep saying it, maybe someday you'll be right.

Oct 01, 08 - 12:58 pm Comment from: alansky

The sheer volume of advertising on this site is really obnoxious. Anybody listening up there in the cloud? Your website sucks. The content is frequently excellent, but the site itself sucks.

Oct 01, 08 - 01:14 pm Comment from: ElderNorm

Hmmmm, New Macs just in time to run on the new Snow Leopard.!!! The new OS will not be pushed for sales, rather its the new super better OS for the new machines. Both optimized for each other. !!!!! No legacy OS9 or even G$-G5 support.

Slim, trim, and able to leap over speed bumps in a single bound.

Just a thought.

en

I don't mind the adds on MDN - it's the effing pop-unders that pile up everytime I go to a new page. You know, the Top TV Bytes one! AUGH!!! Might just stop coming here.

MDN Magic Word: all, as in "All intrusive forms of advertising need to be made illegal."

"The sheer volume of advertising on this site is really obnoxious."

That's why their tagline is "MacDailyNews - Where Advertising Comes First!"

Oct 01, 08 - 02:07 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

To be shown just after MS shows off the Windows 7 beta - causing sudden depression in Seattle.

Does anyone know if there is something REALLY special in snow leopard or just a bunch of enhancements (bluray, snappier, HP printer drivers that work properly)...

Snow Leopard will feature a ton of great upgrades and new features. The only thing is, most people won't be accessing them directly, its mainly for software devs.

I know for a fact Apple is working on Quicktime X, which will be their latest version of quicktime to compete with flash and silverlight. They are also working on ways for users to access multiple processor cores in applications to better increase speed. Of course, everything else is very hush hush, but I have heard of better support for gaming as well.

Oct 01, 08 - 03:16 pm Comment from: Cubert

Buster,
I bet there are going to be a million and one little changes - like how in Leopard (vs. Tiger) when you go to rename a file it excludes the extension in the editable area.

I think there will be a lot of changes that will make people say, "Wow. I never thought of that, but what a great idea!"

Oct 01, 08 - 04:02 pm Comment from: HolyMackerel

Once I have the Outlook iCal Calendar and Outlook Mail syncing in Snow Leopard I will be able to do away with Parallels, get 1 MB back and be Windows free yet able to connect into the corporate network.

This is far bigger for many than multi-processor support. Also, its weird how the iTouch/iPhone's v2.1 Mail app supports Exchange but the Calendar app doesn't…

Oct 01, 08 - 04:36 pm Comment from: MacLovin

guys, if the ads are annoying you, download AdBlock for firefox. I get no ads, and no popups when I"m on MDN. It makes the pages load faster too.

Oct 01, 08 - 09:43 pm Comment from: smyhre

Hmm those ads keep reminding me what I have to do soon "Sign up for the GRE" the one ad that I really need to pay attention to. Sigh graduation is such a pain.

But whatever I'm still looking forward to Snow Leopard to improve my way of life just that much better.

Yeah, for a Mac-oriented website (for which, by the way, there is actually very little real, non copied-and-pasted 'content'), MDN is very, very Windows-like.

A new window for every link? That's a sign of a paranoid host that's afraid viewers will leave and not come back. That's not very Apple-like at all.

As much of a blowhard that MDN is for Apple, this site should try absorbing some styling cues from the Mac experience, too.

And a semester in a real journalism class wouldn't hurt, either.