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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 fendale »

uggedal wrote: post #2

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

I wonder how its going to work. If you have Leopard and your hard disk dies - do you have to install Leopard and then upgrade to Snow Leopard (which would be a pain), or will the upgrade allow a clean install onto a blank hard disk?

Still on Tiger here too, which is my main reason for wondering if I can get away with the $29 version!?

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

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Post by raganwald »

JeremyChase wrote: post #26
raganwald wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

OpenBSD has done it 26 times in a row: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2322203/Why-OpenBSDs... PS: This article was written before 4.6 has was minted; it will actually be released a full month early.

Well done OpenBSD contributors and stewards!

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

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Post by Xixi »

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.

Apple choosed speed, optimization and refinement over features. And I welcome this choice wholeheartedly, enough bloat already... make my OS faster, slimmer and more robust and I'll be happy.

Sadly the price point of Snow Leopard, and the sort of reaction that you have make me think that the big shops will continue to make ever more massive and bloated softwares...

After all, you get what you are ready to pay for : if you think features are worth more bucks than optimization, that's what you'll get.

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

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Post by dasil003 »

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.

Time machine alone was worth the price of admission. There were also some good unix upgrades in there if that sort of thing carries any weight with you.

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

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Post by johns »

cpr wrote: post #31

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/ for all those who claims it's just a service pack. But, as I said elsewhere, the major improvements are under the hood.

As a non Mac OS user, that link just reinforces to me that it looks like just a service pack. But at $29, I don't think it matters. If it were $129, that would be ridiculous.
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