Snow Leopard

Is this worth getting? Doesn't seem like much of a step up to me...

I realise it's not out yet but has anyone seen anything online or otherwise that says it might be good?

It's only 30 bucks. Totally worth it.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/

is it a completely clean install or can i upgrade over tiger and not have to install everything again?

I believe it's either or. You can just upgrade or you can format. Also..

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The installation process is up to 50 percent faster and more reliable than ever. It checks all your applications and sets aside programs known to be incompatible. And in case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without any danger to your data. Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you

i saw a cub crossing a frozen lake a few years ago. cant seem to remember what it looked like though.

  On 8/26/2009 at 4:07 PM, assegai said:

I believe it's either or. You can just upgrade or you can format. Also..

 

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The installation process is up to 50 percent faster and more reliable than ever. It checks all your applications and sets aside programs known to be incompatible. And in case a power outage interrupts your installation, it can start again without any danger to your data. Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you

sweet - shall be getting.

Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money...

then yeah.. its not worth it...

spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead..

They're cleaning out all the pre-intel legacy crap, so everything should be smaller and faster, now that it's optimized for a single platform. At the least, it's a significant performance upgrade for only $30.

  On 8/26/2009 at 8:25 PM, acid1 said:

Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money...

 

then yeah.. its not worth it...

 

spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead..

sorry YOU FUCKING NERD

nerds - they can impart so much valuable knowledge yet only through the medium of scoffery

  On 8/26/2009 at 10:22 PM, mrcopyandpaste said:

  On 8/26/2009 at 8:25 PM, acid1 said:

Well if you don't know what 64 bit is, don't care what your graphics card is doing with this spare cycles, don't use an exchange server, don't care about 6 more gigs of free space, don't mind a large footprint, don't want quicktime pro features for free, and finally if you think 30 bucks is a lot of money...

 

then yeah.. its not worth it...

 

spend your 30 bucks on half a video game instead..

sorry YOU FUCKING NERD

lol

Yeah, I'll probably upgrade. I hope it doesn't fuck with Logic 8.

  On 8/26/2009 at 11:00 PM, Braintree said:

Yeah, I'll probably upgrade. I hope it doesn't fuck with Logic 8.

You might want to look at this:

http://snowleopard.wikidot.com/

Also, if you're a Tiger user (10.4), you'll be pleased to know that you can upgrade to the full version of Snow Leopard (10.6) for the same 25-29 dollars! Apple does offer a "full" upgrade from Tiger to Snow Leopard for 169, but does admit that you can upgrade fully with just the "upgrade" disc.

yeah, £25 and delivered to my door in 3 days. bargain!

I wasn't here to sign for it and fedex took it home. I hate that.

I installed it last night. It's kinda.. the same

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I got it and installed. It opened up 12 gigabytes on my hard disk and runs some stuff more smoothly.

It's easily worth it,

dock looks nicer

I like it. New Expose is nice. Dock tweaks are nice.

Too bad the default scrollbars are still ugly. They should have changed them to the style used in iTunes.

Ooh, one of the new backgrounds is a copy of Nighthawks.

Computer automatically boots to 32, what does this mean?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10320314-37.html

  On 8/31/2009 at 6:16 AM, assegai said:

Computer automatically boots to 32, what does this mean?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10320314-37.html

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It works like this, Snow Leopard is a 64-bit OS, and almost all of its applications are 64-bit, and almost if not all of its frameworks for developers to tap into are 64-bit. There is a part of the operating system called a kernel, it can run in either 32-bit mode or 64-bit mode. There is a lot of code that taps into the kernel for low level device functions, these bits of code are called kernel extensions or kexts, they are written both by Apple and by third parties. 32-bit kexts do not play well with a 64-bit kernel, and as almost all kexts are 32-bit because pre Snow Leopard the kernel was 32-bit, this would cause a huge amount of headache to end users to default to a 64-bit kernel. and most kexts will not see a performance improvement by running in a 64-bit mode.

 

What are the advantages of running a 64-bit kernel?

The way Mac OS X is designed to take advantage of more then 4GB memory pre 64-bit, causes it to swap address for memory above the 4GB barrier, which in turn makes each memory operation slightly slower. If you have more then 4GB of memory in your computer, running a 64-bit kernel will speed up memory read/write some, but will cause more compatibility issues with kexts. Thats it. If you have less then 4GB of memory a 64-bit kernel will have no advantage what so ever, and above that you will see some performance improvement when more then 4GB of memory is consistently being used. Obviously as no mac ships with more then 4GB of memory by default, and only more recent macs (excluding xserves and Mac Pros) can even accept more then 4GB of memory, and as it will take third parties some time to write 64-bit kexts, it makes absolutely 100% sense to default to a 32-bit kernel at this point.

or this.