Leopard ...

[samsc]

Well ... Catalyst works...

On the surface - there are no visual glitches ( apple fixed bugs i reported several months ago )

Since then i haven't seen any specific Leopard problems-

But as usual beneath the surface there are an awful lot of changes in the OS that might affect what we do-

So I have to urge great caution.

But as anyone buying a new mac knows - from Oct 26th - they wont have any choice in the matter.

Performance? I dont know - a little slower than 10.4.x - though not much.

Developers only got access to the release builds yesterday. The same day are everyone else - which is crazy...
So there isnt much time to have tested anything...

[Andris]

The new enhancements do look interesting, especially Core Animation.
It seems that Leopard has media server technology built right into the API... And a pretty formidable one to boot.

Which leads me to ask: Does Catalyst handle Quartz Composer compositions within a QT file?

[NevBull]

Catalyst has been able to run Quartz Composer movies for some time now - have a look through the posts on the forum.

with regards to Core Animation - see the thread http://chaldee1.gotadsl.co.uk/~richa...core+animation

Nev
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PI Digital

[samsc]

quartz composer and 'core animation' sounds fine in theory- but in practise they are performance hogs whichever way you look at them.

fine on 1 layer not much use on more than that.

catalyst has to be optimised for playback on many layers.

[emilianomorgia]

Well ... Catalyst works...

On the surface - there are no visual glitches ( apple fixed bugs i reported several months ago )

Leopard it's very buggy it self , I had it for few days now , probably catalyst application it's ok , but there are too many things going underwood and many are buggy .

To be honest I'm a Big Apple Fan , but I'll not use ( YET 30-10.08 ) the New Os in real Show .

I don't want to panic anyone , but I think the leo it's on "quarantine"

[samsc]

once you buy a new mac now you wont have a choice...

[Mr_P]

can always disk image it back to tiger...

ive had some BAD issues running an update on a test system - with just the OS - not even tested catalyst yet. Id reccomend a clean new install if anyone is going to update an old system...

beware
S

[emilianomorgia]

Id reccoment a clean new install is ayones going to pdate an old system...

Yeah Clean install it's better the update from tiger . I confirm , and I can tell you that if you start from clean install things are not that bad .

[samsc]

I dont think i ever tried upgrading tiger when testing leopard- the developer builds didnt allow this-

But - the system migration assistant seemed to do most of the right things... in preserving settings and such.

Catalyst does work in leopard - and i havent seen any bugs yet.
I have no idea about performance of drivers, etc.

[samsc]

can always disk image it back to tiger...

S

it is unlikely that any new macs will downgrade to tiger.
typically apple prevents this.

new macbook pros - have an exclusive version of the operating system for now- that only works on them...