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Apple lays the smack down with Leopard

Posted by Jaymz, October 27th, 2007 in Everything/Nothing, Mac, Slice of Life, Tech, Windows

So I just got my ass a shiny new Aluminium iMac in time for the great Macfag event that comes once every few years known as the OS upgrade time. While everyone’s writing about the fancy pants Time Machine, or the multiple desktops Spaces offers, or the fact that the Finder kinda sucks a little less than it used to in the past, I thought I’d share my favourite Leopard feature that I’ve come across so far.

So as we all know, Leopard has a new Finder navigation section for shared computers - be it Windows PCs, Macs or things that those smelly neckbeards love to post verbatim about. Sure enough, after jumping in to the Finder for the first time, it picked up my extensive home network (soon to be updated). Wondering what the icon was supposed to represent, I right clicked on the icon for Konata, my trusty fileserver of gargantuan proportions and chose “Get Info”.

Here’s what Leopard gave me.

donegotschooled

Oh zing, Apple!

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1 Brandon Oct 27th, 2007 at 3:35 am

Send one my way…

Anyways you know google reader when it reads your blog, all your pictures have your anti leech image…

http://www.respectsakura.org/images/ApplelaysthesmackdownwithLeopard_1842/donegotschooled.png
2 NegativeZero Oct 27th, 2007 at 11:29 am

Kind of amusing, since Windows hasn’t had a BSOD that looks like that since Windows ME, and the newer products have a red screen too.
3 Jaymz Oct 27th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

To be honest, my Macbook has the dreaded dark grey “OH SNAP HOLD IN THE POWER BUTTON TO TURN OF YOUR COMPUTER BECAUSE EVERYTHING JUST WENT TO SHIT” message far more than Vista’s bluescreened on any of my PC’s.

In fact, I haven’t seen Vista bluescreen since the beta. It has hung a couple of times, however.
4 Jaymz Oct 28th, 2007 at 1:43 am

Brandon wrote:
[img-bandwidth-leeching-faggot]

Ahahahahaha… oops. i’ll add Google to the list of non-naughty sites then. :)
5 NegativeZero Oct 28th, 2007 at 3:28 am

Back before I abandoned MacOS it used to be about as stable as a drunken one-legged 80-year old. Multiple machines, and they always played up, except the ones running System 6 which was like a rock.

Then again, my last Mac was possessed by the devil himself.
6 Jaymz Oct 28th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Of course the classic Mac OS sucked. When OS 9 was laid to rest, it was one of the most primitive operating systems around.

Let’s summarize it, shall we?
- Cooperative multitasking, as opposed to Preemptive multitasking. Hell, NO real multitasking at all until System 6
- Memory protection? What the fuck is that? or How my program learned to stop worrying about overwriting core parts of the OS in memory purely by accident.
- No fucking colour until 1992.
- Extensions make DLL hell look like a fucking island resort with large breasted women.
- Each new release of System x/Mac OS y was generally considered to be slower and/or worse than the previous release. This only turned around with OS X.
- Worst. Application Switcher. Ever. Perhaps with exception to the shit BeOS pulled on us.
- The hardware sucked.
- The software sucked, or if it was good, Apple stole it and put it in the next release of their OS.
- The above reasons didn’t really give developers much incentive to make good software. Especially the bit just before this.
- lol one butan no games
- Lack of any kind of rudimentary network connectivity capabilities for systems other than Macs, ie builtin Samba support
Therefore, I think it’s safe to say we can classify the System series, and OS’s 7.5, 8 and 9 as the worst shit ever to plague mankind since Microsoft BOB and leave it at that.
7 wild Nov 1st, 2007 at 11:04 pm

I was coming on to do my usual PC-fanboy “but bluescreens don’t look like that anymore!” rant, but Negs beat me to it.

Anyway, OS 8/9 may have sucked Jaymz, but you can’t deny Windows had its share of problems too. I mean, the “home” (non-NT/2000) versions of Windows up until Windows XP were all still running on top of DOS, and that caused its fair share of problems. Any old-school PC users who ever tried to run DOS games that required CD-ROM, sound, or network drivers will know what I’m talking about. At least with Mac OS you didn’t have to squeeze all of that into 640kb of base memory.

There were other things that got on my nerves with Windows 95 and 98 too. For example, whenever you changed the IP address, Windows had to reboot. Well, it had to reboot for pretty much anything.

That said, credit where it’s due: Apple had it relatively easy, running Mac OS on a fixed set of hardware. Microsoft had to make Windows run on pretty much any combination of x86 hardware, and despite the flak some people give Windows, that’s not an easy task.

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