You’re telling me Snow Leopard isn’t a major update? Well affix your chapeau to your pate, sir, and go forthwith on a long walk off of a short fjord! The most important feature in Snow Leopard has been revealed and it’s a doozy.
That’s right: something PCs have been doing since I was still spermatozoa is now standard in OS X. Will the magicians of Cupertino ever stop innovating?
Wow! So it tells you which program is using it?
Holly! That is inovative! I would never know!
a lot of people like us are, in apple parlance, morons. we need a smarter eject system.
something PCs have been doing since I was still spermatozoa is now standard in OS X
Vista tells you if a file is blocking it
Service Pack 3 aka Windows 7 will do the same as this apple feature, but Apple releases it in two days.
Apple wins, PC haven’t been doing much right since John Biggs genes unfortunately entered the pool, and he’ll never admit he’s wrong, because he had a wet dream about Bill Gates.
“That’s right: something PCs have been doing since I was still spermatozoa is now standard in OS X. Will the magicians of Cupertino ever stop innovating?”
Sigh.
This feature (smart ejecting) has only been in Windows since 7. Or should I say, it will be part of Windows 7, which, if you remember, is released after Snow Leopard.
Gee-wilickers Batman!
I’m switching TODAY!
Could we leave the flame-baiting to the commenters?
Does windows have any sort of “smart” eject feature? If you eject a drive and an app is still using it doesn’t it just eject in windows? Apple never let you do that for the sake of not screwing up your data and protecting the drive…
I have to say though, it was always very aggravating not knowing which app was using the drive.
Well, while ejecting a disk is hardly innovative, MS could definitely use this when trying to eject external hard drives and USB drives. So many times I get the “There is a file currently in use” messages when trying to eject them having no idea what it’s doing or what program is still holding a file open or whether its trying to index the drive or whatnot. Most of the time i try a few time then give up and just remove it.
It’s in Windows 7.
http://lifehacker.com/5132227/windows-7-tells-you-why-you-cant-touch-that-file
Vista does for files, but not for disks. I could not eject a USB drive yesterday and had no idea why. It just said it was “currently in use”. Turns out a had a command shell that was cd’d to a directory on the drive.
If Snow Leopard says “you cannot eject because a shell is in directory so and so”, that would be a welcome improvement.
Just, that I never got such a message in Windows 7…
Now, now, now; functionality in Windows is merely a happy accident, whereas added functionalilty in OS X is a GIFT FROM GOD HIMSELF.
Hhhhoooooo-lyyyyyy-shit.
Do I detect a hint of sarcasm?
Seriously though…I gotta know. How do you not know what application is using your CD drive?
Example 1) I’m installing “Program X.” I’m gonna give it a greater than 50% chance “Program X” is using the drive.
Example 2) I’m playing “Game X.” Wow, guess what? Yup, It’s “Game X” accessing that drive.
Example 3) I’m burning a disk with “Burn Program X.” Wonder of wonders. That program is the one using the drive.
I guess things momma was right, Apple computers are like a box of chocolates, you never know what’s accessing your disk drive.
Personally I like the way Windows does it. I push an extremely reliable button (haven’t had it fail yet!) and the disk pops out. If a program was using it, that program (Keanu: whoah!) pops up a bubble that says “Hey dumbass, the disk is gone. Put it back.” (Keanu encore: whoah!)
I think perhaps you are simply thinking of ROMs (CDs, DVDs, etc), whereas many, many people have moved onto usb flash drives and whatnot, where the OS or other applications can be reading and writing from the drive.
…don’t know what “things” is doing in line 7.
That must be it.
Funny :)) but you forget to mention OpenCL , Grand Central , 64-bit support that won’t actually be by default.