Apparently not. Introduce the fastest computer and preview your next operating system (is this the fifth or sixth now) and people are whining about some silly phone to play music. Leopard rocks! Although where the heck are all those files that can be retrieved from "time machine"? That's a mystery to me. Nonetheless, it certainly looks worth the upgrade price. Even more so than Tiger. And once all programs are written to access Intel chip, you have a computer that will even satify the most demanding video producer. I may not be the targer market for gadgets and the Apple Movie Store is still probably a ways away but I think this was a very successful show. Your thoughts?
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I could not possibly agree more. These Mac Pros are simply the most awesome, fastest computers Apple has ever put out. Many people said before the keynote that the WWDC is for Macs and the OS, and it always has been. The most Apple can do is tell people that on the web site. These Macs are the best, most expandable ever. I didn't realize how much the G5 heat was hampering Apple's ability to put more drives, slots, etc., into the enclosure.
Whenever Apple releases their new gadgets, it will probably be an even worthy of its own presentation, which is the way Apple has lately been doing it. I expect to see something in the Fall.
I think Time Machine will be storing backups on an external drive or server. Actually, "Backup", the program you get with .Mac, allows you to do something similar. You have all these incremental backups that are stored by date as far back to the time you started backing up. It's pretty slick, bit obviously no cool time travel graphics!
This was a developers conference, not really a place to introduce new hardware. But Apple used to introduce a really top knotch machine. I was a bit surprised that the Xeon processors weren't a lot faster than the G5's. The tests show about 1.5 to 2 times faster. This is a typical upgrade in speed for Apple in the past. I guess the G5's were a pretty good chip after all.
As for "Time Machine", increamental backups have been around for quite sometime now. I think what Apple adds is the wizbang intuitive graphical interface to retrieve these files of the past. Other systems you need to enter a date to get the file. Who will remember the exact date to retrieve an old file? Essentially, TM is a very large trash can which will never be emptied. If you work with very large files, this may not be good. At my old job the files were so big that it took most of the night to backup even only the new files to tape. Maybe you can only select certain directories for this feature.
Most of the other features of Leopard are typical upgrades. I think the big new features are still in the "Top Secret" folder. I would guess that Boot camp will not require a reboot anymore, and if they go full tilt then maybe even incorporating the Wine libraries into the OS. These are open source so it could be like Safari which was open source, and then Apple tacked on the GUI. Wine are those DLL's which would allow running Windows programs without buying the actual Windows OS.
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