Ooopps, dont look now Petra, men där avslöjade du att du inte har läst artikeln, hade du gjort det så hade du vetat detta;
Waiting for Puma
Among the other problems with the March release, sources said, is that it won't take full advantage of multiprocessing systems or new video accelerators, such as Nvidia's recently announced GeForce 3 or ATI's Radeon. People who have systems containing these new graphics cards may not see a speed-up of 3D or 2D graphics until support is introduced with Puma.
Owners of portable Macs also may experience some problems, including power-management issues affecting the OS' ability to awaken and go to sleep. Intermittent bugs affecting the sleep cycle may not be resolved by the time Cheetah reaches the so-called golden master, and the development team has not fully tested its stability on the newest Apple hardware, including the PowerBook G4 Titanium.
The Mac OS X development team also has flagged a variety of bugs, some causing system hangs or freezes, in the Setup Assistant application, which helps people configure their systems. While the glitches "may affect user experience," sources said, the team has deferred fixes to later versions.
Finally, sources noted diminished performance when people run applications that have not been written specifically for OS X. Although some operations, such as opening windows, perform faster in the so-called Classic mode, most applications will run more slowly, sources said.
Ben Long, a media specialist and writer who has covered multiple operating systems, said the missing features in Mac OS X 1.0 surprised him.
"I don't remember another transition leaving out functionality--not in the move to System 7, not in the move to PowerPC," the predecessor to today's G3 and G4 machines, he said.
Though the lack of DVD may be a problem "mostly for portable users" who use their PowerBooks as portable players, Long said the speed hit in Mac OS X's Classic environment would most likely be the most troubling.
"Like most people, I'm not going to be installing Mac OS X until the high-performance applications are Carbonized," he said, referring to the process of tailoring the software to run optimally on the OS.
Long noted that print professionals upgrade entire systems to shave seconds off frequently used operations such as Photoshop filters; an operational slowdown of even 10 percent, he said, would seriously affect productivity.
"Most people who install Mac OS X 1.0 will probably be spending as much, if not more, time booted into Mac OS 9," he said.
Alltså, taskigt grafikstöd, taskigt DVD-stöd, brist på apps skrivna för MacOS X, slö systemperformance, taskigt stöd för bärbara (sleep-mode), obefintligt SMP-stöd och allmänt buggigt...etc etc, a well, sure they fixed it to the "Puma"- release...dvs någon gång nästa år ;)
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"Develop for it? I'll piss on it."
Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, about developing
applications for Steve Jobs' NeXT Computers -
which led to the demise of NeXT in 1993.
[Redigerat av Reefer den 02 mar 2001]