Public Release of MorphOS 2.6 & Introduction of PowerMac Support

[djrikki]

In comparison to say AOS or Mac OS Leopard the price is pretty much comparable - or at least it was back in 2005 when I purchased Leopard although I suspect the price have changed since.  £100 may seem a bit expensive for a pair of OSes that many would deem as under-developed, but at the end of the day someone has to pay for and fund future development.  Butterflies and Boing balls don't grow on trees ya know.

[djrikki]

Snow Leopard is £20.

Thats because its a very minor update on Leopard itself.  The difference between Leopard and itself pre-decessor Panther were massive in comparison.

Watch them whack the price back up again on the next major release.

[djrikki]

Well purely from the user-experience PoV the difference isn't that huge and I should know as I have been using both for sometime and they are nearly identical.  So sure, not going to argument about whats on the hood as I don't know, but purely from what you can do and how stuff operates differences are barely noticeable.

Although this damn Snow Leopard sucks at opening the Scripts menu from the menu bar - takes like 30 seconds just to open the blast-thinged - god knows why it was fine when I bought the machine back in the Spring.

[djrikki]

Ah Mac coder.

Perhaps I'll PM you some day, maybe you have some experience in building Cocoa-based applications? (XCode?). I've produced some meaty applescripts over the past 12 months in relation to office automation and could do with a configuration editor rather than expecting settings to be kept in a plain text file.  Just a tiny app with text fields, list-boxes and a few buttons for adding/deleting items with a save button.  Perhaps I should also store settings in a plist and have the applescript(s) read from it at runtime as that does seem to be the correct way to go around things rather than store SMB usernames and passwords and other items completely insecure in a plain text file lol.

Off-topic I know sorry Amigans. =P