All the rumouring about Leopard suggests it will be out this month or next month. The last major update to Tiger just came out the other day. And apparently Apple have kept some of its best new features a secret, so they can do they proper 'wow' thing on launch. But Ive no idea what those features might be.
So I guess your current Mac is a Mac Pro? Ive never had one of those, but I hear there may be an 8 cpu core edition coming soon, and that theres a new version of final cut that is going to want fast hardware. Your graphics card choices are also a bit more flexible if you are talking Mac Pro. Even if you dont use such things for games, increasingly Apple's creative apps are coming to use such hardware, think the next final cut has a 'hardware accelerated' version, not sure of detail. To be fair Apple arent going to tech support Parallels because it isnt their product, they cant support all the software written by 3rd parties, and in this case the support from the people who actually make it seems quite good. And Bootcamp doesnt officially support Vista I dont think, but maybe this will change with Leopard, and in practice Vista can work, Ive got it here on the cheapest macbook I could get my hands on, but witht he RAM upgraded to 2gb. Meanwhile I have windowsXP installed to work with parallels inside OSX, which I use for microsoft office etc. Im still not sure what I think of Vista. I certainly like it, I like that theyve made icons bigger and generally it looks nice at high resolutions. The 'aero glass' stuff is not bad but Im not sure its worth the 3d graphics power it uses. Still even though quite a lot of the design changes are inspired by OS X no doubt, it still doesnt really look or feel like OS X to me, so Im not sure how much more it will appeal to Mac users than Windows XP did, time will tell. I think maybe I prefer having a sidebar for widgets than the dashboard thing of Apple, but then again Im just not sure. Ive always preferred the fonts on the Mac, and maybe one reason I like it is that it doesnt remind me of my day job working with Windows PCs a lot :D --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "humancloner1997" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Steve, I find what you say especially fascinating. I just > wonder how far off is the new Leopard Mac? My current Mac Tiger has > two internal 500 GB hard drives, one external 1000 GB (terabyte?) > drive and room for one more 1000 GB drive. I really don't have to > worry about "space" since I can always find some stuff to put back on > tape. > I have been reading comments about Vista. Most focused on Vista's > requirement for room. I'll watch Verdi's video. A friend of a > friend got Parallel & had trouble with it. When he contacted Apple, > even though it was/is advertised on their site (in a sidebar), they > claim it is not their "product" and wouldn't help him with it. That > was a surprise to me and a bit disappointing. > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > Hoboken, NJ 07030 > www.RandyWickerReporting.blogspot.com > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <steve@> > wrote: > > > > Reasons people in general would buy a PC: > > > > Cost (I know its not an issue for you but its a large reason that > the > > PC isnt dying out significantly, and that most people I know dont > even > > look at a Mac before buying a PC) > > > > 3D gamers probably want better graphics cards than most Macs dont > have > > > > Certain other specific hardware may not run on Mac > > > > They havent seen or dont like OS X, or they dont know that windows > > works on Intel macs. > > > > They dont like Apple for some other reason, or there just doesnt > seem > > to be a Mac with the right spec for them available. > > > > For your needs it sounds like a Mac would be a great fit. Parallels > > desktop will run things like Word very nicely, and if you needed > > higher performance for video editing or games or something, then > > Bootcamp works well. The Intel Macs are effectively at least 90% > > standard PC hardware so the performance should be about the same as > an > > equivalently spec'd PC. Even Vista works mostly fine on the > Macbooks, > > just have to fiddle about with drivers a bit and it really helps if > > you bung at least 2GB of RAM in whatever Mac you get. > > > > Did you ever see the demo Michael Verdi (I think) did of Parallels > > feature where you can have Windows programs appear in windows as if > > they were within OSX, with things like drag&drop working. Its wild > and > > really starts to blur the lines. > > > > Maybe a good idea to wait till Leopard comes out before buying a new > > Mac, as I dont think it can be very far away now? Not that Leopard > > seems to have any 'killer' must-have features from what Ive seen, > but > > inevitably software that needs Leopard will appear at some point. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve Elbows > > > > --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "humancloner1997" <rhwicker@> > > wrote: > > > > > > Daryl, you mention that you would also have "pc accessability" > while > > > working with flash. Would the new Mac with the Intel chip that > can > > > run Windows qualify as "pc accessability". > > > I'm planning on buying a second computer. I considered a good pc > but > > > then decided the new Mac with the Intel chip would work just as > > > well. I edit with iMovie but like programs like Microsoft Word > in > > > the PC. However, since switching to Mac, I view the PC as a > slowly > > > dying dinosaur. > > > Is there any reason I should consider getting a top of the line > pc > > > instead of a new Intel Mac? Money is not an important > > > consideration. I never worked with video on a PC because my old > PC > > > didn't have the strength. > > > > > > Randolfe (Randy) Wicker > > >
