not a big fan of syncing everything either, but that depends on the context I suppose.

……..and I would also like to add that my Windows 7 64 bit based PC is incredibly stable. I consider myself a heavy user and have used all of MS O.S from Windows 95 on-wards. They have made some serious stability improvements with W7 ( and not before time) . I have absolutely nothing against Apple O.S but bombing MS because it’s trendy to do so is childish. Anybody that has to “format” a PC five times in a year must be doing something very “iffy” indeed.

Once you die you never go back.That doesn’t make death a good experience.

well said sir!

11.10 seems to be quite good to me if you haven’t tried that…

Dud ya have to bring starwars into it

Love the mac hardware, Snow leopard was a disaster though, serious wifi issues for many macbook owners. I’ve been running windows 7 on mine since about 2 months after I bought it because of wifi problems and, like you say haven’t had one single issue with bugs, crashes, driver issues or anything else. Maybe it’s the awesome hardware that makes the difference. The mac hardware is slick, but despite the image they do not give a crap about their customers, the 500 odd page thread on their forums about the macbook wifi problems is testament to that.

Dude, if you were formatting your PC 5 times a year then you’re not IT literate, particularly if you had hardware worth €1500. Nothing personal but you probably just think you know what you’re doing.

Dude the Star Wars stuff is retarded. Lay off it. I’m not a Windows fan myself and it has it’s problems but I ran a development PC at home for several years without issue until my HD went belly up. Formatting 5 times a year is excessive and if you were IT literate you’d have figure out the issues rather than blindly reformatting. Finally, you’ve an uber generous girlfriend if she gifted you an iMac 27″. She’s a keeper!

Gentleman’s why that much negativity? My comment was only an opinion under many others. I had no intention of offending, insulting anybody! Why Star Wars? I’m a fan.. That’s All. Nothing bad mixing humour, fiction in an open debate. The 5 times formatting was approximate, didn’t meant exactly. As we live in a free country you have the right to express yours with dignity and respect! Sounds this is not a shared feeling. But if you wish to be rude and disrespectful in a public place so be it!!!

What does that mean? There is nothing new or revolutionary in any of these spec’s. They are likely to be packaged and marketed well – and will probably have a very nice GUI… But Windows 8 is sounding pretty good too…

I haven’t seen anything about Windows 8 that didn’t look severely brain damaged. They keep tacking on ridiculous UI, while failing to address the severe structural problems of their system. Not that anything in this new version of MacOS looks particularly interesting either, but at least it’s not metro.

It means that MS are following rather than innovating these days Paul. They need to up their game a lot.

They could build in the Kinect to a pc. Apple don’t have anything like the Kinect

Connor, when Apple use a Kinnect type UI on their PC’s, you will realise that they actually came up with the idea first.

Built in. Paul !

Phil, I’m sure MS with their 90% market share don’t give a toss

Have you proof of this or is that just you trying to be sensational? Link perhaps?

http://www.cultofmac.com/146640/windows-8-made-by-microsoft-designed-on-a-mac-image/

Your point being? A lot of Linux apps, as well as much of the Ubuntu operating system are developed using Macs as well. Mac tends to be very popular with developers.

Linux uses Unix, which Mac also uses. There’s a similarity there. I don’t want to get into an argument here, I was just pointing out the irony. Calm her down

cheers damien for that misleading link.

All that proves is that, if actually real, which would be a topic for debate, is that he uses Apple hardware, which I agree would be the best hardware out there. In fact, I reckon most developers from all ecosystems use Apple hardware (although dell do some tasty monitors). because no other hardware manufacturer has grasped the fact that developers want top end. It’s very very hard to get a similar specced laptop to a Macbook Pro that isn’t a lugger!

Back to the point though, it still does not prove anything, I would be my stake that on that MBP is a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.

Also… That blatantly incorrect one liner says it all really…

Linux is Linux based, not Unix based, Mac OS X is Unix, not Unix based (It could be considered a distro, but its certified, at least up to SL, Unix). and neither matters much to Photoshop…

No problem, my goal is to mislead. I know for a fact that the iMac was running Linux, probably some Unix-based version as Dean mentioned. The MBP was running Windows 7 but it was using a virtual machine running Mac OS, Tiger I believe. To make matters worse, he was using Panasonic batteries in his mouse. I know, I was shocked too when I first heard. You’re right to question whether the picture is real or not – I’d be willing to wager that it’s a painting, probably done on MS Paint on the iMac running Linux and NOT Photoshop on the MBP running Mac Tiger inside Windows 7.

I know this is hard to believe but as I said, I know this for a fact and everything on the internet is true.

Also the keyboard is made out of paper. Printed using a HP printer. From a Dell Inspiron running Windows 8.

how about doing a bit of research before posting rubbish like this? By default Gatekeeper allows you to install apps from AppStore and trusted developers. You can change it to allow you to install anything.

This is what I thought at first too. As far as I understand, Gatekeeper only allows App Store apps to access Notifications and iCloud. Even trusted non-AppStore apps are blocked from accessing these two services.

Some research I actually did before posting:

“There remains one thing that is of concern to me. Despite these great strides forward, Apple is walking a dangerous line with regard to features that are only available to App Store distributed apps. The two most prominent examples are iCloud and Notification Center. Cabel asked Apple if, thanks to Gatekeeper and Developer ID, App Store-only features would be eventually be available to signed apps that were not distributed through the App Store. There was some shuffling of feet and a “we have nothing to announce at this time”. It didn’t sound particularly optimistic.”

http://www.panic.com/blog/2012/02/about-gatekeeper/

Jailbreaking is coming to your mac sooner than you thought…

Post people seem to prefer this method of curation as long as there is enough choice on said store, notice that Microsoft are going the same route by only allowing Metro apps into the Windows Store and only allowing Metro apps to access the new data sharing features like charms.

Personally I would rather curate my own machine but I can understand the desire to provide this sort of service to the general masses who want their machines to function the same as their phones.

No, we work… here. There was a lot of discussion about Mountain Lion when Apple announced it on Thursday so we thought some readers would be interested in seeing what’s new in it. That’s all.

Pen, if you’re not interested why would you click, read and comment. You negated your comment immediately, bravo.

It’s a commercial masquarading as news.

I looked at your profile. You claim to be a writer and editor. I spotted some flaws.
The ampersand does not replace ‘and’ when ‘and’ is a conjunction.
The convention for the dots representing unwritten text is that there are three dots. The Daily Mirror uses two. The Daily Mirror is incorrect to do so. Four dots may be used when the dots lead to the end of a sentence, the fourth dot being the full stop. There is no provision in standard English grammar for any more than three dots other than when there is a full stop.
Editing and writing are about being correct and accurate.
Kevin.