Longhorn Screens
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 8:09pm |
 Coolness: 339760 | I must say, my fav looking features are the "shut do" and the scrollbar in a menu.
good to see what 4 years of development have produced. shit, and they claim they still have another 2 years before release.. ! must be hard squeezing those last two letters "wn" in eh?  |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 8:58pm |
 Coolness: 2604080 | Thats funny... I dunno about the scroolbar in a menu... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 9:24pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | i don't know who comes up with those moronic ideas, but i gotta say, this OS looks like garbage.
lemme guess, minimum ram requirements are 512megs.. right? shit. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 11:13pm |
 Coolness: 685685 | Well, considering that finally the OS is gonna give full controll of graphic processing to accelerators and have it render everything, it's probably gonna take a nice load off the RAM from storing all the shit.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 11:47pm |
 Coolness: 159215 | Yeah but you'll need an insane amount of RAM to run it. It REQUIRES 512Mb RAM and I'm guessing it'll use more than half of that with you CPU on idle.
I wonder what a rendering engine would do for an OS anyway ? Render a window in 3D ? Heh. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Apr 27, 2005 @ 11:53pm |
| Coolness: 685685 | No, but it'll take the task of rendering the 2D graphics away from the CPU. Think how insanely intense a graphic workout a bottom-end cheap-ass PCI Radeon 7200 was designed for. It'll render and store all graphics and shit in the video card and the VPU will process the graphics, as opposed to the CPU handling them and shit being stored in RAM. That right there is gonna free up a TON of the CPU to do more. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 6:52am |
| Coolness: 339760 | final?
that IS the final, not a beta, all they're really working on now is drivers and extensions for the OS.. since that's the developer release.. it's not a beta :| and fred, what you just described is something osx has been doing for 2 years :P seems like all the features i've been hearing about that are going to be in longhorn have been removed, and yet the release date is constantly being pushed back.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» v.2-1 replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 10:28am |
| Coolness: 159215 | If all these features have been removed, what difference will there be between Longhorn and XP then ?
Oh I smell a scam comin'... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 10:46am |
| Coolness: 339760 | hah, the difference is obvious!
more DRM and a new default desktop picture! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 12:57pm |
 Coolness: 201320 | Yeah like neoform said OS X has had the graphics acceleration for a couple of years. Although it should be noted that it also needs 512mb of ram to run properly as well (although they still ship systems with 256). |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 1:53pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | uhh, my parents G4 has 256megs of ram and OS X 10.3 runs great even with all their apps open.. :| |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 4:08pm |
| Coolness: 201320 | I find even with 384 it runs pretty slow |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 5:43pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | i had 512 in my G4 untill 3 days ago and it was very fast.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» ravedave replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 5:45pm |
 Coolness: 131785 | final?
that IS the final, not a beta, all they're really working on now is drivers and extensions for the OS.. since that's the developer release.. it's not a beta its still alpha, beta 1 will come this summer.. and for the VS, they change it like almost in every build... so who knows what it will look like, im waiting for the glass effect thats for sure... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 5:49pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | dev build != beta.
the core of the system is not in beta anymore.. maybe it's new (as they call it) shell is in beta, but the OS is not. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 5:52pm |
| Coolness: 201320 | I don't think pics would do it justice, I'd need to see it in action.
Like if they have the ripple effect going then it will surely sell.. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 5:54pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | and this snazzy ripple effect will somehow warrant it's $500 price tag? :| |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 6:27pm |
| Coolness: 201320 | hey people pay lots of money for a g5 system that can do the ripple effect at 60fps |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» FRANKB replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 6:52pm |
 Coolness: 103430 | is this the new windows interface ?..or just a theme |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Thu Apr 28, 2005 @ 8:22pm |
| Coolness: 339760 | Originally posted by SCOTTYP...
hey people pay lots of money for a g5 system that can do the ripple effect at 60fps what ripple effect? the most intensive thing the OS does is either a) minimizing a window to the tray, which is useless beyond showing non-geeks where the window went.. or b) showing all open windows, using miniturized versions.. which i find less eye-candy and more functionality.. i doubt windows' glass effect will have any positive functionality.. |
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