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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by pibefision »

mseebach wrote: post #9

Hmm, not exactly convincing. Leopard brought stuff like time machine, this smells more like a big service pack. I mean, OpenCL and some of the central applications running 64-bit? Better Quicktime and a new Safari? I don't even use QT and Safari. And it's $29? Too little to be too much, but still a lot for a service pack.

Also, there is some software that needs an update to work well on Snow Leopard, for example MacPorts.

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by stuff4ben »

uggedal wrote: post #2

What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?

I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by yardie »

mseebach wrote: post #9

Hmm, not exactly convincing. Leopard brought stuff like time machine, this smells more like a big service pack. I mean, OpenCL and some of the central applications running 64-bit? Better Quicktime and a new Safari? I don't even use QT and Safari. And it's $29? Too little to be too much, but still a lot for a service pack.

Did you even read link?

Here http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/ are the new features that went into this release. And your comment doesn't even make sense, first you say it's a service pack than you rattle off a short list of new and upgraded items. These things do cost money to develop. And I'm pretty sure $29 barely covers the cost of it. I don't remember anything new being in Windows when a SP rolled out except a new browser. (There was the uPNP browser that popped up in SP2 I believe)

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by ionfish »

mseebach wrote: post #9

Hmm, not exactly convincing. Leopard brought stuff like time machine, this smells more like a big service pack. I mean, OpenCL and some of the central applications running 64-bit? Better Quicktime and a new Safari? I don't even use QT and Safari. And it's $29? Too little to be too much, but still a lot for a service pack.

It depends on what you plan to do with it, I suppose. I'm personally happy to pay merely for a decent chunk of performance improvements (isn't that what we do when we buy faster computers, after all?), but the new frameworks are also interesting—OpenCL, for example.

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by raganwald »

prakash wrote: post #17
sant0sk1 wrote: post #11

Nice to see Apple shipping before their publicized time frame (September). A rarity.

The other way to look at this is that Apple gave themselves plenty of buffer to ship.

True, but unlike practically everyone else they didn't allow their work to fit the expanded time available. Everyone builds in buffers and pads their estimates, but few people are able to work to their original true estimate.

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by stevoski »

mseebach wrote: post #9

Hmm, not exactly convincing. Leopard brought stuff like time machine, this smells more like a big service pack. I mean, OpenCL and some of the central applications running 64-bit? Better Quicktime and a new Safari? I don't even use QT and Safari. And it's $29? Too little to be too much, but still a lot for a service pack.

Snow Leopard has always been described by Apple as a performance and stability upgrade.

Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)

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Post by yardie »

stuff4ben wrote: post #14
uggedal wrote: post #2

What about those stuck on Tiger (my gf)? Buy Leopard and Snow Leopard update or buy a full version?

I'm still on Tiger and I'm probably not going to upgrade. I have a first-gen "lapburner" MBP which works just fine. Leopard didn't really offer anything ground breaking and it doesn't appear Snow Leopard will either. And I figure anything ground-breaking will require newer hardware, so I guess I'll stay on Tiger until the machine stops working. Which coincidentally is also why XP users don't upgrade either.

I think it depends. If you have a first-gen MBP than you are better off getting the new OS. 10.4 "supported" Intel chips but it always felt like a hack between PPC and Intel platforms. 10.5, and each update since, has gotten progressively better for Intel chips.

I think you've fallen for the marketing trap where a list of features has to be present for it to be worth something. Not many lists include code and platform optimizations because it doesn't market well. I've used OS X since 10.1 and each update has gotten remarkably better. Things have mellowed out in 10.5 but the OS feels fully baked.

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