Quote: Originally Posted by Weyland-Yutani My estimation is that OS X will be the Apple OS until Macs run Windows. Make of that what you will cheers W-Y Not bloody likel…

I think OS X is here to stay, but I suspect over the years the interface (GUI) will change. 10 years from now is hard to predict. Just look at what has changed in the last 5 year…

Quote: Originally Posted by msuper69 Not bloody likely. Oh yes. I'm positive that my previous post will come true. cheers W-Y

Coming at it from a slightly different angle, well, a marketing angle I guess, when are Apple going to release OS XI, and how significant a change is it going to be over OS X? Obv…

Marketing, for sure. What arrived as Mac OS 8 was originally supposed to be 7.7. OS 8 was supposed to be the name for the next, built-from-the-ground-up, fully PPC-native OS. I thi…

At first the System and Finder developed very quickly, up to version 6. Updates were free, and noone really bothered about the version numbers. System 5 never actually existed - Sy…

Quote: Originally Posted by P ...Calling it OS "ten" but using roman numerals was a way to get the final X commonly associated with UNIX OSes without infringing on the UNIX trad…

P, thanks for that post, very interesting and informative, cheers.

IMHO, due to the Unix underpinnings, Apple is no longer chained to creating EVERYTHING for OS X. I know that Steve Jobs isn't going to make the same mistake twice with Apple's OS. …

Apple may decide on a new paradigm for the interface, but not a new operating system from scratch. It may do something like the "Public Square" concept for organizing and rely on h…

Quote: Originally Posted by P Right now OS X is not missing any big, vital features. OS 9 was missing several - preemptive multitasking and a modern memory model with protected …

I got my 1.83GHz MacBook Pro just 3 days back and I can say with a bare 30 minutes of usage its getting pretty HOT....Its basically the bottom left hand side of the laptop. The top…

Unfortunately, it's normal for Apple laptops, and many others too, to get very hot underneath. It's been like that with almost every generation of G3 and G4 powerbooks and now also…

The aluminum case acts as a giant heatsink, spreading the heat from the CPU/chipset/GPU/CCFL out all over the bottom surface of the laptop. I prefer laptops which have plastic case…

Quote: Originally Posted by voken I got my 1.83GHz MacBook Pro just 3 days back and I can say with a bare 30 minutes of usage its getting pretty HOT....Its basically the bottom …

I'm pretty sure from a photograph I saw posted that there is a direct connection via thermal paste from at least one of the major chips -- maybe the processor itself -- to the bott…

I had a Pentium3 500mhz before and it gets hot. For the most part, I think people will just have to deal with it because as computers get faster, it's only normal they get hotter.

The neat part about the macbook is that the hottest parts of it are the parts that you touch the least. That is unless you're resting the laptop on your legs. The power inverter a…

I had a thinkpad T40 1.6ghz centrino and it got warm, but never as hot as my powerbook G4 1.67.

Quote: Originally Posted by pete I had a thinkpad T40 1.6ghz centrino and it got warm, but never as hot as my powerbook G4 1.67. Plastic case. The Al shell of the MBP is a…

I'm sure that's the case, but the IBM also comes with a three year warranty and has been proven to be incredibly reliable hardware wise so it doesn't seem that the internals are be…

Are they made of aluminum? Is that better than titanium? Titanium wouldn't get as hot, I'd think. But maybe it's good for the heat to disperse through something. Anyone know wh…

Quote: Originally Posted by Heavy Anyone know why aluminum is chosen over titanium? I'd have to say cost.

Quote: Originally Posted by atc ben I'd have to say cost. Aluminium/Magnesium alloy is vastly superior than Titanium for the shell of a Laptop... if you are building a Warpl…

Quote: Originally Posted by bloodline Aluminium/Magnesium alloy is vastly superior than Titanium for the shell of a Laptop... if you are building a Warplane, then Titanium has t…