Re: Wishlist for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

macsucks3737@xxxxxxxxx wrote: 
TheLetterK wrote:

macsucks3737@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Thanks for another lesson in semantics. Either way, the dock is useless
when this happens.


Yes, but you can't seriously expect it to restart itself on a freeze. No
other operating system does so, why would OS X?



Only because when the dock freezes you can't easily get it to force
quit unless activity monitor is already running. If it isn't, you
pretty much have to turn off your computer by the power button.


Nonsense. The Dock and Finder are two seperate applications. If it comes
down to it, you can navigate to Activity Monitor via Finder.


No you can't. It won't let you launch any new applications.
Excuse me? Maybe that's new in 10.4, but it certainly wasn't the case in 10.0 through 10.3.




8. Add drivers for more hardware.

Apple already provides every Mac driver they have access to.


Write some new ones. 

Excuse me? Do you understand the effort involved in this? Especially
when hardware developers refuse to release technical documentation?



I wouldn't want to inconvenience Apple with anything that requires
effort. It isn't like I pay them for the hardware or OS or anything
like that.


Shouldn't you be upset with Microsoft as well? They certainly don't
spend a lot of time reverse-engineering hardware to write functionally
deprived drivers for some rare examples of hardware.



Yes, I think Microsoft should do this as well, though there is
certainly more hardware that will work with Windows than Mac OS.


Everything to do with vendor support. Hardware vendors (even the ones
who don't release technical documentation) provide Windows drivers. Very
few (comapratively) provide Mac OS drivers. Thus Apple has to write
their own drivers from technical documentation, or reverse-engineer
hardware to develop functionally-deprived drivers.

If you want Mac OS support, start demanding it from the companies that
write the drivers, not Apple. It's not Apple's responsibility to reverse
engineer everyone's drivers for them.



It is not the job of every hardware company to provide drivers for an
OS with 1% marketshare.
~3% worldwide. 4.3% in the US. That number is significantly higher when you remove the corporate desktops and point-of-sale machines from the equasion. Hell, they don't even have to write the drivers--just release the technical documentation. It's only prohivitively difficult if Apple has to reverse engineer the hardware before writing the driver (it's why they typically don't bother--it's too expensive and time consuming for no return). Most Mac users are used to the 5-minute process of figuring out what hardware is compatible before they buy.

Apple should take some responsibility for their
limited user base and start coding some drivers. Might actually get
more people to buy Macs.

It's clear you know absolutely nothing about this subject.



 I had

a couple of older components that worked fine on Windows 2000 but not
XP, strange that they would remove support from such a similar version
of the OS.

One of the changes that occured with XP was the driver foundation. 


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