WWDC

Posted by Joel Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:09:00 GMT

Well, that was kind of lame. I never liked the G5 case. The handles need rubber on them, at least; doesn't anyone notice these things? I don't really care about the Mac Pro though, I'm a laptop guy.

And, yeah. Leopard. I'm down with doing the time warp again; but do we really need virtual desktops? Isn't that a problem solved more elegantly by Expose? I dunno. Options, I guess; I know some weird people who'd installed software to provide that functionality. I was hoping for more. And what's with the release date?

Then again, I can cut them some slack because they had to spend a lot of time on that whole Intel thing this year. And really, they've done a good job. I'm still clutching feverishly to my PowerBook G4 hoping it doesn't die, because there are two major reasons I don't want a MacBook right now: heat and DarwinPorts.

I guess, looking back, it's not that bad. The only really good feature of Tiger was Spotlight, and Time Machine could compare in usefulness to that. I could still happily forget Dashboard ever happened, since it doesn't have much usefulness past eye candy to impress PC users.

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  1. funky chicken said about 23 hours later:

    casting my vote for dashboard...

    1. calculator handy at times
    2. weather - useful at times
    3. dictionary - useful!
    4. thesauras - very useful. 5. yellow pages... used it today to look up local realtors.
    another feature... f/11 is my favorite command when working with aperture or photoshop and have to wade to the desktop quickly.

    can't live without scrolling trackpad either.

  2. funky chicken said about 23 hours later:

    slick animation (or whatever it was) when posting!

  3. joel said about 24 hours later:

    The problem I have with the dictionary and weather is that they are poor sources. The dictionary often gives bad definitions or is even missing words (!) to the point I have reverted to just using dictionary.com. Similarly, the weather, for instance, only allows for "San Francisco, CA", and not for zip codes. This is a problem as San Francisco has very different temperatures throughout it; where I live (94108) is usually accurately reported by weather.com at about 10 degrees cooler than what the weather widget gives.

    I do use the Calculator though. And the little calendar thing.

  4. rodney q. sidesaddle said 1 day later:

    i'm not sure but think that ichat is going to offer remote screen control, similar to timbuktu. a great addition for remote admin.

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