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"Longhorn is slated to ship in the second half of 2006."

Longhorn WILL ship on the other side of never.

Look at the picture of Ballmer in this article!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4000015.stm

Would you buy ANYTHING from this joker???

THIS WAS BREAKING NEWS 6 WEEKS AGO!! WHAT KIND OF DUMB NEWS SITE IS THIS????

Spotlight IS nice. Very fast and active too. It doesnt seem like much when you think about it, but using it makes all the difference

Longhorn will ship in 45 minutes, trust me.

Scott,

Why are you SHOUTING??!! You seriously need to switch to decaf buddy.

Read IT-Enquirer's take on Spotlight. Favorite quote:

"Spotlight is a technology that Apple should be screaming about and which --if honest and objective reporting still exists among my colleague-journalists-- should inspire them to write favourably about Mac OS X being vastly superior to anything else on the market. "

http://www.it-enquirer.com/index.php/ite/more/spotlight/

That sound you hear is the agonized shrieking of Microsoft engineers pissing razor blades.

[Off Topic: Anyone else old enough to remember Emerson Lake and Palmer's catchy boogie number "Tiger in the Spotlight"? I can't think of a more appropriately named theme song for the upcoming OS.]

Scott: chill! This is an article that was just posted on CNet yesterday. MDN is just collecting all articles on the net that deal with Apple, Macs, iPods and Tiger. News is news.

Smithy, thanks for the laugh,

Baller's saying "And we would have gotten away with it if it wasnt for those meddling kids and their iPods."

"Longhorn will ship in 45 minutes, trust me."

LOL Tony, your surname wouldn't happen to be "Soprano", would it?

Ballmer gives all monkeys boys a bad name, he doesnt even have any hair to look for bugs in. Coco wants a banana now or Coco is gonna destroy the suitcase again.

The biggest thing that seems to be completely overlooked when people compare OS X (Panther) with XP or Longhorn, or for that matter comparing Dell desktops to the iMac, is the fact that the iMac is true 64-bit processing... SEAMLESSLY!

From http://developer.apple.com/macosx/tiger/index.html ....


- 64-bit Development -

The 64-bit support in Tiger enables the 64-bit addressing for the next generation of data-intensive applications, such as those working with gene sequencing, advanced medical imaging, and geospatial applications. To give an example of the kinds of data that can be represented with 64 bits, imagine that you are working with a dataset in which the road area of the Golden Gate bridge can be represented in 32 bits. Sixty-four bits of address space gives you the capacity to model the entire surface area of the earth at the same resolution. In addition, LibSystem and many of Apple's optimized math libraries will support 64-bit addressing in Tiger, making it easy for developers to harness the full computational power of the PowerPC G5 as well as very large amounts of memory. As you probably know, at the heart of the Power Mac G5 and the new iMac G5 is the PowerPC G5 processor, a fully capable 64-bit processor. It sports 64-bit registers, can perform 64-bit arithmetic operations, and can give the operating system access to greater than 4GB of main memory. In fact, it gives you access to 16 exabytes of virtual memory, and as much physical memory as you can put in your Mac.

Unlike some other CPU architectures, there is no performance penalty for running 32-bit applications on the G5. This is because the PowerPC architecture has always been defined as a 64-bit architecture with a 32-bit subset, allowing a seamless migration between 32-bit and 64-bit hardware. Even better, 32-bit applications can take advantage of many 64-bit features, such as 64-bit math and registers. This has allowed Apple to make a smooth transition between architectures. For example, there is only one version of the kernel for all Apple hardware.

Mac OS X Tiger's 64-bit support opens the door to the next level of applications—the ones that couldn't be built until now.

Viridian, it Bliar

Oops freudian slip, Blair

Smithy,
you're right. He looks like the Monster in Frankenstein Junior.

Ballmer pic (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4000015.stm) lends itself to captions ie:

Ballmer peptalk to Longhorn development team: "C'MON BOYS, C'MOOONN! You see what those creeps at Cupertino are doing? Let's get movin here! I want -and the big boss wants- Longhorn on the shelves by Christmas 2008, NO! NO! make that 2007. We CAN DO IT...!!"

That's Young Frankenstein.

I thought it was a picture of Ballmer crimping off another fat one

This is really going to transform the way people use a personal computer," said Ken Bereskin, Apple's senior director of Mac OS X marketing. "You can (just) look at the way search engines transformed the way people used the Internet."
Funny, I always thought "Mac OS X marketing" was an oxymoron and/or there was no position like that at Apple.
Apple really needs to get on the ball about showing people what Tiger is all about. Operating systems don't make for the most exciting commercial subject, but i hope our friends at cupertino can figure something out.

Tony Blair?? Mr. Prime Minister, no offense, but don't you have more pressing things to do than hang around the MDN forum?

I'm missing something here. We have had disk indexing since 1992. There use to be a shareware application for System 7.5 that did that. So what is new about this seach engine?

doPi,

It's quite different from disk indexing pre-OS X. I invite you to read the link to the IT-Enquirer piece about Spotlight in my earlier post; it makes clear the advantages of this technology. The major difference is speed, but Spotlight allows for some nifty stuff, such as saving search results in a Smart Folder, which updates in real time.

Spotlight is not a simple search engine!!! With Spotlight, when you create a new document, you can give it a name such doc000245 or whatever and store it like all documents you created in one folder. When you want a document, instead of finding it by its name (you've probably forgotten since), you find it by what you actualy think about it, it's content!
Spotlight give you the possibility to create smart folders.

Thank you Viridian and Manu
Content search is what I was talking about. We had had that since 92, I gues the only new part of that is the ability to put it in an updateable folder. As far aas speed. The old shareware program was so fast that as you began typing the text in question, a spread sheet of files that contain that those letters would appear below the search panel. It was truly amazing and then... I switched to X ;-(