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A lot of them were inflated (a lot) and promoted to features just to allow that big fat +200 on top... 
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Features for China... Those are really a lots of features I'm using on a daily basis 
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Sure, many are overblown, but there are some really good features there. I saw the demos this summer with multi-displays, Finder & Safari improvements - all impressive improvements. In many ways I prefer the latest Mac OS UI to the stagnating & de-emphasized Windows desktop. Wish Microsoft would give the Windows desktop similar attention.
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My original post was tongue-in-check, but I am disappointed that MacOS seems to be years behind other OSs. Multiscreen support, for instance, really shouldn't be something to crow about. Not in 2013.
Regardless, I still love my Macs and my iPads, but I also still love my Ultrabooks and my servers.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: Multiscreen support, for instance, really shouldn't be something to crow about.
Huh? It didn't have multi-screen support before?
The Mac II (or some version way back then) had that. Did it get lost along the way?
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Multi-screen support has been there for ever - what they stuffed up was when they added "full screen" applications - thee take over the whole screen 9as te name suggests) BUT they only took over one screen in a multi-screen set up- disabling all the other screens!. now you can have full screen apps on each of your multiple screens.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Doesn't look like anything new to me...
Was the same some years back when they announced the copy/paste on iPhone 
One thing Windows could actually have natively is the multi-desktop and the independent toolbars but anyway, the multi-desktop can be achieved with many free and payed softwares and I use DisplayFusion for years now to properly manage the toolbars across my monitors.
So... yet again... +200 shiny new things?
I mean, I'm no Apple hater, and I currently use whatever lands in front of me, but we need to admit that one thing Apple always got better that anyone else was marketing!
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They went back to the drawing board. And after their talented team worked really hard, they have revolutionize the whole naming convention system. And now it is no longer named after a member of a Cat Family. Now they are after awesome "surfing" locations.
Which is the only reason I use my costly apple computer for. And they kept the promise of, not to change that. I say it's worth every penny. 
OK, now the serious question, did you see any noticeable change in battery life? they have added some new algorithms to improve battery life. Since my older Macbook Air doesn't have Haswell chip, I am going to upgrade it just to get extra battery life.
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200+ new features.
Facebook events
When friends invite you to events on Facebook, the invitations appear in Calendar. So, adding a FB-plugin to the calender is a change to the Operating System?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Does it count if the calendar buttons have a new glossy iGlossy finish?
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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Aren't AppNap, compressed memory and timer coalescing new to Mavericks?
And isn't it a free upgrade?
/ravi
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Yep. They are great under-the-hood technologies.
But I want something shiny I can point at
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Is Finder still complete rubbish?
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Took me a bit to find this today, then saw this article[^], which would have helped immensely. Nice of them to bury the "showcase" feature of 8.1.
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TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Took me a bit to find this today, then saw this article[^], which would have helped immensely. Nice of them to bury the "showcase" feature of 8.1.
Seems all reasonable and straight forward to find, to me.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Yeah, if you want to completely change the look and feel of Windows, also changing the way programs open from full-screen to normal, you just right-click on the taskbar...
They should have just put a 5mm2 "charm", 41% of the distance between the centre and the edge of the screen, 23 degrees from vertical.
That would have fit much better with the current Windows UX philosophy.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Yeah, if you want to completely change the look and feel of Windows, also changing the way programs open from full-screen to normal, you just right-click on the taskbar...
They should have just put a 5mm2 "charm", 41% of the distance between the centre and the edge of the screen, 23 degrees from vertical.
That would have fit much better with the current Windows UX philosophy.
I'm not using 8 let alone 8.1. I was just being my usual flippant self.
Have had to sort out issues on 2 clients laptops that were using Windows 8. Cludged my was through and hope they don't call again.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Codeproject Newsletter states:
Last operating ICT 1301 mainframe computer set to run again[^]
1MHz, 576KB, no waiting(thanks Ravi Bhavnani)
Really slow by todays standards, very small memory today also. Then I read the article, it says 576kb. That's 72KB, eight times smaller number because the measured size (KB) is 8 times bigger than kb or Kb. (b is for bits, B is for Bytes, I think k and K both mean 2 to the 10th power.)
So, who made the typo?
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Don't assume 8-bit bytes either.
"Its main memory came in increments of 400 words of 48 bits (12 decimal digits) plus two parity bits. The maximum size was 2,000 words" -- Wikipedia
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I still fondly remember the CDC computer with its 60 bit (10 character) word size who put to shame IBM's accuracy. IBM's double was quite a bit less accurate than CDC's float. You had to do something special to support mixed case letters, which reduced the size to 5 characters per word. (You had to dedicate one character to indicate the next letter was lower case.)
PIEBALDconsult wrote: 400 words of 48 bits (12 decimal digits)
That would be just under 19Kb which jibes with the article. CDC NEVER used decimal digits except when printing or converting to text. It would take a lot of additional processing to maintain digital numbering while also doing mathematical operations. You could almost (one short) store a 10 billion number in its word. A 48 bit signed integer could hold a number value of 280 trillion. A 60 bit integer could hold a number over 4 million times bigger than that.
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That would be me - fingers aren't used to typing KB in lower case anymore.
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Thanks for pointing out the article in the newsletter. Never ever used that mainframe, but it brought back memories. When I first saw PC's in the 80's, it was a joke compared to the mainframes I was using. Now my laptop makes the mainframes I was using a joke in comparison.
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You're very welcome.
It's probably the case that an iPod Touch or a watch has as much computing power as some of those beasts. After all, the iPad 2 is supposed to be as fast as the Cray 2[^], and I remember seeing one of those working once and it was crazy fast.
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TTFN - Kent
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The first Cray was crazy fast because of vector processing and the chips were so small they could generally be within 2 feet of each other. (In a four foot square area, 8 feet high) The smaller size reduced the speed of light transfer time significantly. The vector processing was just automatic multi-threading the code did for you when it compiled a loop. It would determine the loop could be vectorized, it would move 64 step values into 64 separate register locations, simultaneously execute the logic, increase the location 64 times the step size and repeat. It was incredible, the compiler just did the multithreading logic for you.
I worked with them all the time, but I only saw them in pictures.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: iPod Touch ~~ iPad 2
Is that how we measure processing speed, these days?
In that case, my EUR 150 android tab = 2 ipad 3s.
How strange that 2 ipad 3s also = EUR 1200.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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