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A look at Longhorn
An Internet Explorer window in a test version of Longhorn shows the graphics improvements in the forthcoming operating system, including translucent windows.
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An Internet Explorer window in a test version of Longhorn shows the graphics improvements in the forthcoming operating system, including translucent windows.
Credit: Ina Fried
A cool thing is this is gonna be supposedly the first operating system written in managed code...if you don't know what that is...imagine source code that is computer independant and compiles, to adapt to the environment, everytime you start the program...like java...except their using my favorite flavor, C#. This will cause a small performance hit but nothing earth shattering ...besides the .net framework, which is like a work in progress that all this managed code rests on, will get upgrades to make it better...c++ is so going to hell :P
Their is also another GREAT! thing about longhorn...if you thought you needed a fast computer to run it you were right...This is good for people trying to buy a new computer...For example Costco's is selling $3000-ish computers that are just 3.6 ghz with a 128 mb vid card...with this new os coming out...they may actually order some new systems to replace these dinosuars...well old if you play videogames...128 mb vid cards can barely get a game off the ground now a days...and only with low detail settings...zzz They been selling computers like this for years...same speed..same price...zzz
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Anyone have any ideas what types of things will go wrong with peoples data on a system like this?
Bruce - eprovided.com
lastly, to the apple jihadists out there: its people like you who force me to boycott apple on general principle. (even if the nazis won the war, i still wouldn't join up)
Powerbook G4, 17.Inch widescreen, Fully Loaded and
it is a really awesome computer without all of the major
problems that MS has and I really dig this machine
except for most of the Mac Users which do act like a
bunch of bugged out snobs.
It's really stupid and I don't even know why they are like
that? Like i posted something in the wrong area and
some snot wrote back like I killed his mother or
something. I was like what the hell is your problem.
I hate it when phone-gangsters can talk crap miles
away behind their keyboard.
In person they would see me and know they made their
biggest mistake.
Microsoft user are for sure a much better group of
people. I'm not your typical computer user.
But getting back to the issue of the new release of
Longhorn. It's just gonna-be another BS update with
another thousand problems.
They always do thing half *ss.
Apple works on that one thing until it's right and only
then do they send it out.
I'm really blown away by this awesome system.
It's one inch thick, closed.
Apple is very expensive but you can get parts from
other vendors that are much cheaper and even MS
compatible.
Later.
Nino Brooklyn-Bronx
for example
you need a pretty fast display card and processor, but it works, i remember having tested it under w2k
also if you look at it, with outlook 2003 and IM installed, you get a sort of transparent warning for received email messages.
any wishful thinking about Longhorn, that actually exists now ...
right now.
While everyone wants to google and awe at the Microsoft light
show, so be it. But beware, Longhorn has got to be the most
marketed, ever-changing, no end in site marketing campaign in
history! They don't even have the dignity to have a working
copy of their latest mockups.
Longhorn is an illusion. You will find some water there, but
nothing even close to resembling the grandiose beliefs that
Microsoft is marketing now.
Go ahead ... wait and see.
I have used Macs on previous jobs - and have been impressed with the elegance of the systems. But, I have also seen people suffer through a lot of the same problems that Windows users do. It just appears to me that many MAC users are less demanding of their systems and/or better educated at correcting the problems.
One more questions / issue with Macs: Why don't Macs come standard with a two button mouse (with right button functionality) and a scroll wheel? This is the biggest turn-off for me in using a MAC - even for just checking email, word processing, and using the internet.
matter? They make a great product and are profitable. As
someone who has the freedom to chose, I use a Mac as my
primary machine. I don't have any issues with viruses, spyware,
reinstalling or my machine slowing down over a period of time.
I'm sure there's competition, however what jihad are you talking
about? ROTFL!
PS. I also own a Dell, because I can, but it hardly ever gets used.
Come on, if you insist on paying that much for a computer (with the specs of PC 2/3 its price) at least insist on getting a mouse with TWO buttons!!! =))
has to find a life and stop acting like a bunch of little children.
Sterotyping out the wazoo here. From both the Mac and
Windows end. Sheesh. Seriously folks.
Anyway--- I've been using PC's all my life. Well, for the past 9
-10 years. Bought a PowerBook last December for video editing,
and within a week it became my primary computer. Call Mac
users snobs, call Mac users a bunch of gay little weirdos, but
after years of using Windows computers (and of course, I still do
at school and with certain applications), I have to say that this
PowerBook and its accompanying Mac OS X operating system
have given me the best computing experience I've ever had,
hands down. I mean, every time I open my PowerBook I know
that (more than likely, at least) it will be a carefree experience
with the best professional-level applications in an amazingly
intuitive operating system. Despite how some Mac users portray
themselves on this message board (and hey, Windows users
aren't doing much better....) is it "gay" and "snobbish" to be able
to wholeheartedly trust in a computer that (and all of you, admit
it) your day-to-day life relies on?
So yeah, everyone grow up here, and if you don't want to
squander your money on another budget PC, get yourself a Mac
and surprise yourself with actually enjoying technology for once.
doubt if I'll ever look back. Really have been pleasantly
surprised - now I understand the hype. I didn't know what I was
missing out on - no virus protection software, no spyware!!!!
Robert
- same old banter
- by April 30, 2005 7:55 AM PDT
- there is a place for both osx and xp depending on what you
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and weaknesses and the smart money is on having both if you
an afford it