WWDC 2009; Most Excited about Snow Leopard

[iVeBeenDrinkin']

Of all the announcements today, I am most excited about Snow Leopard. It looks to be a major upgrade, and can you believe the price?

[toolbox]

Of all the announcements today, I am most excited about Snow Leopard. It looks to be a major upgrade, and can you believe the price?

Yes i am excited too, and yes the price Oh man that price 29 dollars US. WOW, the features impressive stuff can't wait until september.

[Melrose]

I would be much, much more excited if I knew I could keep Photoshop and Coda and still upgrade.

It does looks much better I must admit.

[macworkerbee]

I'm REALLY excited about this too but not so excited that my workhorse, a G5 Quad, is now not an option for OSX upgrades. GRRRRR, I guess it's time for a hardware upgrade.

$29 for software

$4000 for a Mac Pro (for what I want :) )

[leekohler]

I'm REALLY excited about this too but not so excited that my workhorse, a G5 Quad, is now not an option for OSX upgrades. GRRRRR, I guess it's time for a hardware upgrade.

$29 for software

$4000 for a Mac Pro (for what I want :) )

I found that quite irritating as well. Let's see- PowerMac G4 Sawtooth- ran everything from OS9 to Tiger for me- 5 OS upgrades. Had it for almost 7 years. Three year old dual core PowerMac G5, one OS upgrade. ONE. Sad.

[Melrose]

I found that quite irritating as well. Let's see- PowerMac G4 Sawtooth- ran everything from OS9 to Tiger for me- 5 OS upgrades. Had it for almost 7 years. Three year old dual core PowerMac G5, one OS upgrade. ONE. Sad.

Oh, go buy an 8-core, 16GB Mac Pro and stop yer whinin'...

[leekohler]

Oh, go buy an 8-core, 16GB Mac Pro and stop yer whinin'...

You got $3000? I don't. Not for a desktop computer.

[steve2112]

I found that quite irritating as well. Let's see- PowerMac G4 Sawtooth- ran everything from OS9 to Tiger for me- 5 OS upgrades. Had it for almost 7 years. Three year old dual core PowerMac G5, one OS upgrade. ONE. Sad.

I know the feeling. My G5 at work and my Powerbook 17" at home are now officially stuck on one OS. The only machine I have that can benefit from SL is my Mini. I never actually upgraded my Powerbook beyond Tiger, so I actually don't see myself upgrading the Mini, either.

[theITGuy]

Fantastic price...the performance improvement will be great!

Cheers.

-J.-

[Malfoy]

I would be much, much more excited if I knew I could keep Photoshop and Coda and still upgrade.

It does looks much better I must admit.

I have them both installed and they both work after I installed SL.

I'm on a umbp

[NathanCH]

What about Espresso Malfoy? That's my code of choice! :)

I'm also very excited about Snow Leopard. Enough of all this iPhone news, eh?

[Malfoy]

What about Espresso Malfoy? That's my code of choice! :)

I'm also very excited about Snow Leopard. Enough of all this iPhone news, eh?

if I can install shareware i'll try it after this session which I probably can't even say i'm attending because of the WWDC NDA. :rolleyes:

sad really. BBL

[NathanCH]

if I can install shareware i'll try it after this session which I probably can't even say i'm attending because of the WWDC NDA. :rolleyes:

sad really. BBL

Lucky you! :)

I think there's a trial for espresso similar to Coda

[Malfoy]

Lucky you! :)

I think there's a trial for espresso similar to Coda

It works.

Are you canadian? If so I need to ask you a question.

[toolbox]

just wanted to clear this, so leopard is 32/64 but SL is just 64bit? There fore not supported on PPC?

[leekohler]

just wanted to clear this, so leopard is 32/64 but SL is just 64bit? There fore not supported on PPC?

You heard right. Even though the PM G5s are 64-bit. NO more PPC.

[Maserati7200]

just wanted to clear this, so leopard is 32/64 but SL is just 64bit? There fore not supported on PPC?

You heard right. Even though the PM G5s are 64-bit. NO more PPC.

In addition, SL is optimized for Multi-cored processors. Most PPC macs (besides some PowerMacs) have a single core. So you wouldn't really benefit much from Snow Leopard anyway. The only thing PPC Macs would get is 6 GB more space on its HDD.

[leekohler]

In addition, SL is optimized for Multi-cored processors. Most PPC macs (besides some PowerMacs) have a single core. So you wouldn't really benefit much from Snow Leopard anyway. The only thing PPC Macs would get is 6 GB more space on its HDD.

I have a dual core G5. I bet I'd have seen a benefit.

[NathanCH]

It works.

Are you canadian? If so I need to ask you a question.

Yes I'm Canadian. How'd you know?

Thanks for testing Espresso for me. I'm really glad it works