Requires: Mac computer with an Intel processor. No upgrade for my 12" powerbook. :-( http://www.apple.com/macosx/specs.html
This is a surprise? I think that lack of support for the PPC Mac's has been pretty well known for some time now.
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)
#62Hmm, 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.
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 :)
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Insanity. Before Leopard, Spotlight was a debacle. After Leopard, it just works. Also: isn't there a whole lot of software you can't install now because Tiger doesn't have Core Animation and isn't LP64? I also wouldn't trust Tiger security on an external network.
Every security update Apple ships for Leopard it also ships for Tiger.
And I preferred spotlight in 10.4. In fact, 10.4 was all around a much better OS than 10.5, which was the first update to Mac OS X that felt like a step backwards.
Of course, I'll be updating to 10.6 as soon as I can get my hands on it. If nothing else, the promise of a 10.5 that doesn't suck is worth it. To be fair, 10.5 is much better now then when it shipped. When it shipped, it was terrible.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
GCD is an updated and up-rated scheduler for Mac OS X. The following does contain marketeering, but also has some decent technical details: http://images.apple.com/macosx/technology/docs/GrandCentral_...
While I'm sure the scheduler had to be changed to accommodate it, it's not primarily a new scheduler. It's really a sophisticated thread pool system implemented in the kernel and exposed to programmers through language extensions. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_pool_pattern for the basics on the idea - which has been around for a long time.
Thanks - this makes more sense. Just a scheduler wouldn't explain how "With GCD, threads are handled by the operating system, not by individual applications. GCD-enabled programs can automatically distribute their work across all available cores, resulting in the best possible performance whether they’re running on a dual-core Mac mini, an 8-core Mac Pro, or anything in between."
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
You more or less said that the grandparent was wrong "just because." You were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument. Exactly what you complained about with me, btw. The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark.
> The only possible response to that sort of thing is snark. Uh.. no it's not. You could respond like you just did now and explain that they "were telling someone that he was wrong without any argument."
Yeah. But that's slumming it when I explain things for the dimwits. I felt dirty afterward.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#66Does anyone know if installing Snow Leopard requires the user to agree to allow Apple to collect unspecified user data?
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#67Requires: 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.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#68What 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!?
$29 version is only an upgrade for Leopard users.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems so: http://www.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/
FYI, as of right now, they aren't passing the info from the verification screen to the cart correctly, so you have to use the fax-in form. http://images.apple.com/macosx/uptodate/docs/OSX_HW_UTD_FF.p...
i just ordered it through their website after qualifying my recent macbook pro. it worked fine and i didn't have to fax anything.
Re: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Now Available (Delivery on Aug. 28th)
#70May I ask how it is "now available"? From the site, it says that it will be delivered Friday. Did Apple not update the page this links to? Is this an "it's available for purchase now for delivery later" post that the headline is misleading me on?
Oh, it's "now available" all right. Might not be 100% legal in your jurisdiction, though.