OSX Leopard is released, looks like the new Amiga. No joke!

[redrumloa]

You gotta watch THIS Leopard tour! Cybereye and I watched this last night and both came to the conclusion that this is no longer in question, Apple has taken over where Amiga should have been, would have been, could have been, but isn't.

Microsoft is in trouble long term, Leopard is so far heads and shoulders over Vista it reminds me of the gap between Amiga and PCs in the 80's.

[downix]

Now if Apple can get the hardware issues solved they'll be the top dog.  Incidentally, agreed.  Our office is doing a massive switchover to Apple in the next 8 months after seeing Leopard in action.

Pity Apple doesn't make a thin-client for their Xserve, would be a single vendor for all of our needs.

[Flashlab]

Couldn't watch the demo because I had to download Quicktime. I hate Quicktime on Windows...

[redrumloa]

Hey Nate!

My house is still only a 1 Mac house. We currently have 2 Ubuntu boxes and 1 XP box. I am seriously considering buying 2 more new Macs for X-Mas to replace 2 of these for the wife and kids. For myself, I am still on the fence. I am impressed, but I really want a full tower with expandability but Mac Pro's are damn expensive. I may keep using Ubuntu Gutsy myself, which in itself is pretty damn impressive. But I guess that would be a whole new thread :-)

[redrumloa]

Flashlab wrote:
Couldn't watch the demo because I had to download Quicktime. I hate Quicktime on Windows...

Part 1, part 2, Part 3.

 :-D

[Flashlab]

Thanks! Watching it now!

[whiteb]

All they need, is to release it for PC, with the ability to run PC software, and Vista is *DEAD*.

[iMacMiga]

I have had it running for about 19 hours on my Mac Pro and apart from a few teething problems it's extremely impressive. I did a no-nonsense clean install, and it felt like I'd bought a new Mac, never mind just a new OS X version!

It's really impressive, and although I had my doubts, there are some really good features in it I really am enjoying using. 85 quid well spent methinks

[alexh]

Flashlab wrote:
Couldn't watch the demo because I had to download Quicktime. I hate Quicktime on Windows...

Thanks! Watching it [YouTube] now!

You'd rather watch some REALLY TERRIBLE quality flash encoded video with the wrong aspect ratio rather than install QuickTime for windows? How lame is that..

QT for windows is fine, especially for embedded QT movies on websites.

Fine control the file types associated with the app, and you'll never even know you've got it installed!

[nBit7]

Couldn't watch the demo because I had to download Quicktime. I hate Quicktime on Windows...

QT is OK if you disable it for all but QuickTime only content.  And don't let it run in the background.
Thats what I do.

[iMacMiga]

Apple's movie files are all in MPEG-4 H.264 format. If you're on Windows why don't you just download it and use VLC to play it?

Anyhoo, I heartily agree with RedRumLoa, the Mac is more or less where the Amiga would have been in the right circumstances. Right down to not using the Ctrl key as the default modifier key

[nBit7]

Apple's movie files are all in MPEG-4 H.264 format. If you're on Windows why don't you just download it and use VLC to play it?

Is that what format the ipod download is in?
If that is the case I will download that instead of steaming quicktime.  I hate streaming only content!


If only Apple didn't behave like Amiga Inc.  In the way that they only allow their OS on "their" hardware platforms.  But at least Apple actually have hardware platforms.

[swift240]

I must say, wow the dock bar is brilliant.

And for Leopard, I think that is one smart piece of software.
I don`t know much about Vista apart from a lot of people tell me its got more problems than XP had.
If Leopard were to become available for my PC I would get it.

I think Microshaft has got a bit of a problem there with Leopard.

[Flashlab]

Wow, stepped on a few Mac toes here with my QT comment...

For me the screen quality isn't that important but I wanted to see what the new features are. The Youtube vids were fine for that.

I like what I saw but I don't know if it's for me. When I buy a new desktop I will take a good look at the iMac too.

[Fixer]

I actually like Quicktime movs for this type of thing, but I don't like Quicktime player.

I use QT Lite - it is basically just the embedded part of Quicktime for your browser. No other nonsense!

It's up to date as well for the latest versions of Quicktime files.