They never stopped selling it. You could always call up and order it directly even when it wasn't on the store.
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Again Available on the Apple Online Store
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They never stopped selling it. You could always call up and order it directly even when it wasn't on the store.
Sure you can recover documents... But imagine you have loads of versions of a very long document every day. Try scrolling through versions and looking for that change you want to undo. No piece of cake. What more is that hot corners are always being triggered through the interface. Obviously not thoroughly tested by Apple. Just another addition to the features list.
How did you manage before this feature?
Also, can you imagine how much space would be eaten up with larger projects????
I managed fine without a cell phone many years too, yet it has proven to be quite useful....same with versions
Before, I would, at times, manually save documents with different date stamps until it was complete. Quite inelequent compared to versions
In my humble opinion...
...People's faith would be restored in Microsoft. There's a reason half of all Windows users still use XP. If XP SP 5 came out with Direct X 11 support, I guarantee you it would win the lion's share of Windows users.
IMO, Snow Leopard is analogous to XP, and Mountain Lion is analogous to Windows 7. If you fiddle enough with Snow Leopard, it's not all that bad - but it's slower and more bloated and won't run as fast on your older hardware.
Snow Leopard does really well what 99% of all people need a computer to do. Mountain Lion adds a slew of new features that I have no interest in.
To all the people mocking love of Snow Leopard, do you not believe that at some point, a tool can be good and complete, and that it really is possible that if you change it just for the sake of change you are actually breaking it? It's not the same as comparing Snow Leopard to DOS - there are useful things you can do in SL that you can't do in ML - they took away very convenient things. But I am hopeful 3rd party programmers can largely bring them back, so when I can finally afford new hardware...
But in the long term view of things, I totally admit that OS-X and iOS have to merge somehow. And let's face it - Apple sells 300 million iOS devices a year and about 50 million Macs a year....
...People's faith would be restored in Microsoft. There's a reason half of all Windows users still use XP. If XP SP 5 came out with Direct X 11 support, I guarantee you it would win the lion's share of Windows users.
IMO, Snow Leopard is analogous to XP, and Mountain Lion is analogous to Windows 7. If you fiddle enough with Snow Leopard, it's not all that bad - but it's slower and more bloated and won't run as fast on your older hardware.
Snow Leopard does really well what 99% of all people need a computer to do. Mountain Lion adds a slew of new features that I have no interest in.
To all the people mocking love of Snow Leopard, do you not believe that at some point, a tool can be good and complete, and that it really is possible that if you change it just for the sake of change you are actually breaking it? It's not the same as comparing Snow Leopard to DOS - there are useful things you can do in SL that you can't do in ML - they took away very convenient things. But I am hopeful 3rd party programmers can largely bring them back, so when I can finally afford new hardware...
But in the long term view of things, I totally admit that OS-X and iOS have to merge somehow. And let's face it - Apple sells 300 million iOS devices a year and about 50 million Macs a year....
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Who is we? I assume you mean you and your family not "we" as the greater mac using community.
Lion and Mountain Lion really didn't bring tangible benefits to my portables they did bring new graphic cards to the MP and Hack.
There isn't much control over this anyway. I work a lot with the adobe creative suite and often times clients will want concepts and then revisions and again revisions of previous revisions. Things get crazy and its much easier to do a simple old school 'save as' with proper naming convention than versions.
I don't know how Lion and ML handle CS5 or CS6 but I pray to god that when I am forced to switch to the newer OS, that Adobe hasn't gone stupid and implemented this ridiculous versions system from Apple. And if its there by default, there better be a way to turn off that garbage.
There is it's called Windows, I been playing with CS 6 in Windows in the last few weeks on the MP and it Ps, Ai the two things I use most work better than on the Mac.
I have Windows 7 as well and while its definitely Microsoft's best OS, I have no reason to switch to it from Snow Leopard as it still works perfectly fine. Like someone else mentioned, SL is a perfect blend of functionality, stability and optimization where as 10.7 and 10.8 added nothing crucial.
I'll explore my options when Snow Leopard starts being unsupported.
thanks for sharing the info on snow leopard again on apple online store and its cost
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Funny thing happened today. I didn't have a copy of Keynote on my computer and in the past I had always used the free trials. So I downloaded it from the Mac App Store. I tried using iMovie for a presentation I'm making instead, but iMovie is a hot mess.
I noticed right away how old Keynote was: it's 09, it still has the badge to send documents to iWork.com which doesn't exist, in the inspector it uses the QT 7 icon, it still has an export option to iDVD which hasn't been shipping with Macs in a long time, etc.
However, it is the same beautiful, intuitive (and there is a difference between intuitive and simple) application I have loved for years.
And I thought to myself, why is this so much better than Apple's other recent Mac apps (iMovie and iPhoto and many others)?
And then I thought, "It's because Apple hasn't touched it in four years!"
All that is to say, I get the love for Snow Leopard. I'm still running it on my iMac, and it works great. I've had too many issues with Lion and ML to list here.
I hope Apple gets back to good quality, intuitive software.
I noticed right away how old Keynote was: it's 09, it still has the badge to send documents to iWork.com which doesn't exist, in the inspector it uses the QT 7 icon, it still has an export option to iDVD which hasn't been shipping with Macs in a long time, etc.
However, it is the same beautiful, intuitive (and there is a difference between intuitive and simple) application I have loved for years.
And I thought to myself, why is this so much better than Apple's other recent Mac apps (iMovie and iPhoto and many others)?
And then I thought, "It's because Apple hasn't touched it in four years!"
All that is to say, I get the love for Snow Leopard. I'm still running it on my iMac, and it works great. I've had too many issues with Lion and ML to list here.
I hope Apple gets back to good quality, intuitive software.
Yes they dont have a clue how to update.
And half is far from reality
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-monthly-201210-201210-bar
try 20%
Yes because people wont use the better 7 or 8? Even vista at this point is better (was from SP2) then XP.
And with 7 and 8 its actually the reverse, its easier to use and faster .
OSX can be vastly improved, but apple seems to have taken te wrong turn.
I thought it already did?
The current iTunes needs SL and Intel I assume the same will apply with iTunes11?
This would be nice for them not into the iOS nonsense. However, very unlikely. This is more likely to encourage Leopard users to move onto Lion/Mountain Lion.
Hehe! SL was a great OS. I upgraded to Lion and boy was that painful. Only now have I got it to run stable. It took rebuilding the drive and file structures to do it and it seems ok now. Would like to upgrade to ML but Apple wont let me. It thinks I have thousands of pounds to pull out my ass for new hardware to run what is a Service Pack 1 for Lion. So its a no go. Shame as I would like to install it as reports say it runs very well.
Reading this article I partitioned my drive and installed SL again. I miss that little start up tune that came with the Leopard series and it was great hearing it during the install! Hehe!
SL still feels more polished than Lion overall IMO and still quick.
Reading this article I partitioned my drive and installed SL again. I miss that little start up tune that came with the Leopard series and it was great hearing it during the install! Hehe!
SL still feels more polished than Lion overall IMO and still quick.
If you want identity crisis, use Windows 8. I've used every version of OS X, and believe me, all of them have had their challenges with forums crammed full of tips and tricks to get around features or perceived limitations that Apple introduced. ML is no exception, but in no way do I feel like I am using an iPad, not even close.