RSSMac OS X Public Beta Wednesday
By Aaron Dobbins | Published September 12, 2000, 6:01 PM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is expected to launch the public beta of the much anticipated Mac OS X this Wednesday at the Apple Expo in Paris. According to the report on ZDNet, who have sources close to the project, this release is more feature complete than the previous releases, but still lacks some of the usual features of the Mac OS that many users take for granted. There have been many graphical tweaks to the system, and internally it seems to be very similar to NeXTStep. Read the article on ZDNet for more information.
Is this the version of macos that's supposed to run on PC'S?
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|ummm... NO.
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|This sucker requires 128mb of RAM and 1.5gigs of harddrive space.
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|win2k needs 256 mb to get the wings up.....
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|WRONG!!!!
Win2K needs only 128 MB and a 133 MHz. Processor!!!
Read MS Requierements for it!!!!
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|I installed Win2k on a P100 with 32mb ram. All I really needed was a 3gb hard drive. By the way it runs WAY faster under Win2k than it did under 95 and 98.
Considering the technology in OS X, those are meger requirements. I'd buy a mac just to use OS X, maybe a Dual G4 cube...
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|muahhhhhh
try to run multiple apps on a 133cpu w /128mb
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|I run Win2k pro on a P233 w/ 112mb of RAM, along with things like, SQL2k Beta2, MSN Explorer, and other heavy apps, pretty nicely. I even have it running on a P166 w/ 64mb of RAM, and once it finally boots, it runs fine. It most certainly does not need 256mb of RAM.
I even RAN Server on this P233 at one point in time, it ran fine, now my server is a K6-2 300 w/ 128mb of RAM, running a VPN, dial-up server, webserver, media server, ftp server, NAT server, the list goes on, and it runs great....
I don't know where you got this 256mb of RAM thing at
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|the install includes a ton of stuff like bloated MS internet applications ...
u need demo apps to test the OS, dummo. The OS itself takes nothing like 1.5 GB on disk
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|Not such a good idea... I heard G4's don't have ANY fan in the tower or power supply or a heatsink!
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|umm... no "dummo" they only put in the beta the stuff that is going to ship, otherwise, other problems could crop up later.
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|That is because it doesn't need a fan or powersink.
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|i just want to know how i can get mac os x , i would love to mess around with it, can any one tell me , thank you.
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|i found out how to get it , i have to pay $29 but thats ok , think of what you have to pay for an m$ beta, if pay for that kind of stuff...;-)
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|Windows 98 Beta 3 sold for $29.99 when it went public. Same as OS X.
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|Is it just me or is this thing never going to get out of beta?
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|Better to be in beta for a while and have a stable product than shove things out the door like Microsoft with Me (RTM with Beta IE 5.5 and WMP7) and soon-to-come Whistler (RTM planed for April -Way too soon!!-)
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|grow up and stop whining about the state of the world when it comes to operating systems.
if you can't ****ing say anything nice about it, code your own operating system, or PLEASE stop b****ing about it.
i'm sick of the people that post to this board and can't seem to finish a comment without having to say 'm$' and include some completely unecessary cry for help regarding why linux is better than god.
grow up for **** sakes.
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|it's just u
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|You obviously were not around in the OS 7 days. New releases came our every week practically. What's even worse, they charged you to go from 7.5 to 7.6. Every business is the same.
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|Whistler is just a dot release so the April/May timeframe (if they make it) is pretty reasonable. I agree with the consusion of MS releasing WinMe with teh beta of IE5.5 tho'. Crazed and confoosed ...
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