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You bought 10.0 when you didn't have a computer, then you bought 10.1 retail, even though it was a free upgrade to Mac OS X users, and even though Apple had announced months ago that Jaguar would be released this summer? I don't think you can blame Apple for that. Also, 10.0 was availible many...

All the digital hub apps are brushed metal; a web browser isn't a digital hub app, so logically they wouldn't use the metal interface on it. The JAHIG says:

It's only $10 more at Amazon than it is for us college students, so it's not that bad for the high schoolers (besides, you don't have to buy a bunch of $100 paperbacks every semester :) )

I have a G4 466 and I have tried Jag DP1 on it both befor and after getting a RADEON, and Jaguar is drastically faster either way, but you do see another drastic speed boost after putting in a Quartz Extreme graphics chip. If you go to Apple's Quartz Extreme page, they have charts of how much...

I think the best way to describe the new interface would be to say that now everything is made out of glass rather than candy ;) Window open/close/minimize and scroll widgets are the same, but much of the rest is brand new. You can see a lot of the new widgets in this screenshot...

Apple is becoming a software comany, though: Final Cut Pro, Cinema Tools, DVD Studio Pro, Shake, Logic, PowerSchool, WebObjects, etc. These are way more high-margin than their hardware.

At this point, I see little point in Apple not picking this fight. IE for Macintosh is turning into Netscape 4: It hasn't had any real development work done on it since Mac OS 9 came out. I think it is embarrasing that Apple bundles IE at this point: it's an old, carbon app that does a pathetic...

MOSR has had more domain issues over the years than any other site I can think of (maybe Apple has a deal with their upstream provider ;) ). You'll find that they have something like 90% uptime, so get used to it (of course, that was supposed to be fixed).

The thing about AltiVec is that the things it does, it does extremely well. Consider that my 446MHz G4 runs the distributed.net client faster than a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4 (4,109,033 vs. 4,052,723 keys/s), and I'm sure Phil Schiller has nailed the Photoshop numbers into your brain by now. It's also...

Flurry is open source, so they didn't have to do anything to get it. I think it would be great if Apple included a lot more of the open source savers with the OS; they don't bundle too many now when you consider that four of them are just slide-savers. I think what they did to Watson was...

My theory is that Apple still hasn't come up with any decent naming convention once they get to version 11, so they're going to make every release a .1 so that they can squeeze 7 more updates in ;)

simX, just FYI, one of the long term plans for Chimera is to use Cocoa for the text fields. This will not only make them much faster, but it will make the spell checker and services work in text fields. This isn't going to happen soon, however, since it requires much more rewriting than getting...

I have tried out Jaguar DP1 on my machine, and even in that months-old build, I would have to say that Jaguar is worth at least $129, just for Quartz Extreme and the other performance optimizations. I mean, Jag really does make everything graphics-related 250-300% as fast. A $129 RAM upgrade...

I would be very happy if Apple finally switched to a two button mouse (although if it was cool I'd have to go pay $59 for it :) ), but I would point out that the system requirements don't mean they are heading in that direction. If you go to Apple's Warcraft III page, you'll see they recommend...

My full-screen framerates (in hi-res) went from 10-14 to 24-32 on my G4/466 w/RADEON 32MB, and yes, based on my exeriences with 10.2DP1 (which is months old and has been much better optimized by now, mind) you can expect at least this amount of speedup to your UI with quartz extreme. I know it...

What Apple should do is partner with some site that does webmail, then when iTools accounts expire, make those accounts into aliases to accounts on that server, and charge this webmail partner a commission for driving users to them. Users get to keep their address, and Apple can make a little...

I agree with all the comments by sithious, OmniWebs smart handling of pop-ups alone would make me ditch IE. But more generally, I think that the reason the OmniWeb interface is so pleasing is that it actually looks like a good aqua app should. IE introduced some striped backgrounds and candy...

The Aspen Grove Mall, which will be home to the Colorado Apple Store, is set to open November 8th, as reported in this Rocky Mountain News article. While Apple hasn't officially announced this store yet (except on their jobs page, of course), we can assume from past openings that the Apple...

I think the main place this will be an issue is in a lab setting, where with OS X admins can finally make a pretty hack-proof Mac by using the real multiple users in OS X and now the nifty free firmware password utility on the 10.1 CD to prevent booting off of a CD, but in these environments...

The part of the visual that is linked to the music is the line; it is essentially an EQ graph(if you want to get technical it really isn't, but this is basically how they get it to work), and then the effects transform it into dots, hexagons, etc. or leave it as a line and make it bounce up and...