Comments on: Quick note on applications supposedly rendered obsolete by Leopard http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/09/quick-note-on-applications-supposedly-rendered-obsolete-by-leopard/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/09/quick-note-on-applications-supposedly-rendered-obsolete-by-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-6304 Pierre Igot Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:41:30 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/09/quick-note-on-applications-supposedly-rendered-obsolete-by-leopard/#comment-6304 I too think that Time Machine poses a number of under-the-hood challenges in terms of disk space, trash handling, etc. So I fully expect to see many bugs in the initial release. But even once those bugs are worked out, it remains to be seen whether Time Machine will work as well as SuperDuper! for backing up to an external hard drive. Like I said, Apple's track record in that department is pretty lousy so far. As for Microsoft, they are <a href="http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/10/microsoft-on-the-elimination-of-virtual-pc-and-visual-basic-in-office-applications/" rel="nofollow">just hopeless</a>. If there is a new Finder in Leopard, I'll see that in the AppleSeed builds, but I won't be able to tell anyone about it :-). Although I don't expect such a major change to remain a secret for very long! I too think that Time Machine poses a number of under-the-hood challenges in terms of disk space, trash handling, etc. So I fully expect to see many bugs in the initial release. But even once those bugs are worked out, it remains to be seen whether Time Machine will work as well as SuperDuper! for backing up to an external hard drive. Like I said, Apple’s track record in that department is pretty lousy so far.

As for Microsoft, they are just hopeless.

If there is a new Finder in Leopard, I’ll see that in the AppleSeed builds, but I won’t be able to tell anyone about it :-). Although I don’t expect such a major change to remain a secret for very long!

]]> By: Warren Beck http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/09/quick-note-on-applications-supposedly-rendered-obsolete-by-leopard/comment-page-1/#comment-6302 Warren Beck Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:48:39 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/08/09/quick-note-on-applications-supposedly-rendered-obsolete-by-leopard/#comment-6302 Time Machine will not be easily used with single-drive computers, like Power/MacBooks, unless it ships with an elaborate caching system that dumps changed files to a local or network drive once it is mounted. Such a cache will require lots of local disk space. I think that I would rather turn Time Machine off and continue to use SuperDuper to do disk cloning; I use ChronoSync to do quick updates of my working folder (< 1 Gbyte) to a USB flash disk. I think that Apple doesn't seem to appreciate the real needs of technical or professional users. But I am sympathetic with the need to announce flashy new things that appeal to the masses so that sales will be strong. (Consider Microsoft's "Dinosaurs" ad campaign for Office on the Windows side; no one really needs to upgrade past Office 97, so now Microsoft tries to spur sales by insulting its user base. Given that VBA will be eliminated from future Offices on both the Windows and Mac sides, no one will ever upgrade unless Microsoft finds a way to deactivate Office remotely over the net....) It would be far more beneficial to us if Apple were to produce a robust Finder (FTFF!); perhaps that is one of the "Top Secret" Leopard apps. (I think that the "Top Secret" stuff is the origin of the delay of Leopard's release to spring 2007; I'd be willing to wait for a better Finder at least that long.) Time Machine will not be easily used with single-drive computers, like
Power/MacBooks, unless it ships with an elaborate caching system that dumps
changed files to a local or network drive once it is mounted. Such a cache
will require lots of local disk space. I think that I would rather turn
Time Machine off and continue to use SuperDuper to do disk cloning; I use
ChronoSync to do quick updates of my working folder (< 1 Gbyte) to a USB
flash disk.

I think that Apple doesn’t seem to appreciate the real needs of technical
or professional users. But I am sympathetic with the need to announce
flashy new things that appeal to the masses so that sales will be strong.
(Consider Microsoft’s “Dinosaurs” ad campaign for Office on the Windows
side; no one really needs to upgrade past Office 97, so now Microsoft tries
to spur sales by insulting its user base. Given that VBA will be eliminated
from future Offices on both the Windows and Mac sides, no one will ever
upgrade unless Microsoft finds a way to deactivate Office remotely over the
net….)

It would be far more beneficial to us if Apple were to produce a robust
Finder (FTFF!); perhaps that is one of the “Top Secret” Leopard apps. (I
think that the “Top Secret” stuff is the origin of the delay of Leopard’s
release to spring 2007; I’d be willing to wait for a better Finder at least
that long.)

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