Anybody know if you can install this on a clean hard drive? I've got Leopard on my MacBook, but want to swap out the existing drive and start fresh on a new SSD. Would be nice to not have to do a Leopard -> Snow Leopard dance.
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)
#72Anybody know if you can install this on a clean hard drive? I've got Leopard on my MacBook, but want to swap out the existing drive and start fresh on a new SSD. Would be nice to not have to do a Leopard -> Snow Leopard dance.
Apple doesn't do "upgrades" - if you bought a retail copy it will install fresh on any Intel Mac.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#73You might want to hold off a little while before upgrading, at least until 10.6.1. I upgraded my laptop 3 days ago and since then I've had at least 5 Mail.app crashes, finder a couple of times, and one terminal crash. I did an upgrade install, maybe a clean one is better, but I'm pretty surprised at the instability.
Also, if you use Macports, that's not up to speed yet so you'll be doing a lot of fiddling around to get that working. For example, I had to patch the port for Erlang to get that to install on 10.6, there's probably others. Wait a few weeks and that should all be sorted out for you.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#74Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-( http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
I think the removal of PowerPC support is why the OS is now something like 6 or 7GB smaller than before.
The same mistake, again and again. Please read http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=747316
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#75Anybody know if you can install this on a clean hard drive? I've got Leopard on my MacBook, but want to swap out the existing drive and start fresh on a new SSD. Would be nice to not have to do a Leopard -> Snow Leopard dance.
Apple doesn't do "upgrades" - if you bought a retail copy it will install fresh on any Intel Mac.
Technically, it does (cheap upgrade copy of Tiger for those, who purchased Mac with Panther after the announcement of Tiger, required Panther). Still, I believe it's true that you can do a fresh install.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#76I am quite surprised no other operating system has something like GCD. Is that MarketingSpeak or is it really something new?
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#77here is a link to the 09 wwdc presentation. you can skip to the 10.6 section:
http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/0906paowdnv/event/inde...
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#78Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-( http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
I think the removal of PowerPC support is why the OS is now something like 6 or 7GB smaller than before.
But it then adds in x86_64 support, which brings the size back up. The smaller files are likely to be from not installing all the resources (localizations, drivers, etc) at once if not needed.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, there is some software that needs an update to work well on Snow Leopard, for example MacPorts.
Apple has a few employees working on MacPorts who, along with the ADC devs, did a great job updating it for Snow Leopard in the past few months. 1.8-rc1 has already been tagged in svn and I'm sure the final version will be ready in time :)
I think what everyone likes to point out re: MacPorts isn't MacPorts itself, but the software that it compiles, that needs work still.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#80You might want to hold off a little while before upgrading, at least until 10.6.1. I upgraded my laptop 3 days ago and since then I've had at least 5 Mail.app crashes, finder a couple of times, and one terminal crash. I did an upgrade install, maybe a clean one is better, but I'm pretty surprised at the instability. Also, if you use Macports, that's not up to speed yet so you'll be doing a lot of fiddling around to g…
How'd you get 10.6? Were they releasing developer copies?