Snow Leopard

allwheeldeal · 09-06-2009, 09:36 PM

For all the Mac users you gotta get Snow Leopard... This OS is by far the best one ever from Apple...

Good Job Apple...

eggie · 09-06-2009, 10:17 PM

I read there wasn't any changes made from 10.5 to .6

surfcitylocal · 09-07-2009, 05:43 PM

I would be interested to see a list of what you think is better about Snow. What is new?

It appears to be a service pack that Apple should have given away for free. Shame on Apple.

ketchup_xb · 09-07-2009, 05:47 PM

apple likes to make moneys. i have a mac at the moment. but HP is way better imo.

eggie · 09-07-2009, 08:11 PM

Here is a neat article:
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: the Ars Technica review - Ars Technica

HP's suck arz...

allwheeldeal · 09-08-2009, 07:04 PM

My favorite so far is just the speed of the OS now... Man its fast...

No lie it takes my computer 5 seconds to shutdown now... I timed it !!!!

I will need to time how long it takes to startup. Right now I am guessing 12 seconds.

I love the fact that I got back 6 gig of my hard drive due to the files and junk that was really not needed on the OS.

The whole computer response time is so much faster. Everything I click now is fast to come up its unreal.

The New Dock, Finder and Spotlight work alot better and faster.

I love the OS for its sheer speed...

xPartyx · 09-09-2009, 11:42 PM

hmmm i almost got it today. . it was in my hand, but i put it down.
it does seem like it should have been a free upgrade. . but its only $30
i'll probably get it. . . now if they would just drop the damn price of their wireless keyboards.

ketchup_xb · 09-09-2009, 11:44 PM

windows diamond > mac

iCarusxB · 09-21-2009, 01:58 AM

In brief, they cleaned up everything under the hood in the OS. Stripped out the dual platform support for all the PowerPC architecture users. Any machine prior to MacTel will not be able to move up. This means power books, iBooks, PowerMac's, and iMac's from the G5 line and before, all get left behind *finally*.
(Translation: Apple said "good-bye" to supporting old Mac's).

When Apple switched to Intel, a lot of the functionality was bolted on, and they didn't clean up after themselves. When Leopard hit the market, it was the first release of OS X to actually perform SLOWER in many core functionalities than previous versions. It had to support PPC, x86, 32-bit, 64-bit ... all of this in "hybrid binaries" and anything that didn't work natively ran through "Rosetta" to translate the instructions to the newer hardware. This is like playing a playstation game on your PC ... you can do it but you have to basically be running a whole virtual playstation.
(Translation: Apple threw a bunch of features together in Leopard and didn't clean house. Snow Leopard is cleaning house).

Snow Leopard had some great features slated for release but they dropped all the ones I was looking forward to. Specifically ZFS integration, which is how Solaris (Sun's OS) stores information and handles massive RAID pools.
(Translation: Apple focused on performance and not on features in Snow Leopard, and they dropped sexy hard drive management.)

SUNGZiLLA · 10-12-2009, 11:52 PM

installed yesterday...and nothing really changed as far as interface wise...

iCarusxB · 10-12-2009, 11:57 PM

interfacewise it should be extremely subtle in changes from Leopard. Check out the new Expose features (F9, F10, F11, F12 keys usually activate, in combination with direction arrows).

Like the press said though, most of the improvements are under the hood. ;-)