Average joe upgrades to Snow Leopard...review

[kristoffer4]

Good review. I fear I will miss the old exposé also. Could you check if DockArt works with itunes. 🙂
http://homepage.mac.com/gweston/dockart/index.html

Use it all the time and it would be hard to live without it!
Can you still use "hot coners" for exposé?

 

[mattedwardsuk]

Good review. I fear I will miss the old exposé also. Could you check if DockArt works with itunes. 🙂
http://homepage.mac.com/gweston/dockart/index.html

Use it all the time and it would be hard to live without it!
Can you still use "hot coners" for exposé?

Hot corners yes, and Dock Art works for me!

 

[kristoffer4]

Hot corners yes, and Dock Art works for me!

Wee! Thanks! 😀
Looking forward to friday then!

 

[Sky Blue]

Care to give us a picture of the packaging so we know you really did get it delivered and are not just running the last developer seed like everyone else?

 

[mattedwardsuk]

Care to give us a picture of the packaging so we know you really did get it delivered and are not just running the last developer seed like everyone else?

Are you really being serious? From what I can see from some initial investigation this morning there is no difference from the developer seed and my retail copy.

 

[Sky Blue]

Are you really being serious? From what I can see from some initial investigation this morning there is no difference from the developer seed and my retail copy.

and people have been running this seed for weeks. If you've got it, what's the problem snapping a quick pic of the packaging?

 

[cpnotebook80]

do u have quicktime 7 showing on when you do a search in SL? it does on mine.

 

[mzd]

thanks for the write up! sounds pretty painless. i usually do an erase and install, but i'm thinking i'll just opt for the upgrade this time around.

 

[jdm111]

and people have been running this seed for weeks. If you've got it, what's the problem snapping a quick pic of the packaging?

because hes probably just trying to cover up the fact that he torrented the dev copy

 

[creon]

So what if he did...at least he reviewed what we will eventually see.

A pic could answer our doubts.

 

[Amdahl]

... so developers will write code for 10.6 and not support 10.5 rather soon. ... So multi-core aware and 64 bit software will be coming, and a lot of it won't run on Leopard.

Only the faddish programmers will do that. 10.5 supports multi-core just fine(I can remember the threads drooling over 10.5's multi-core improvements and NSOperation like it was yesterday), and does 64-bit just fine.

Besides, as everyone points out, most of the Mac install-base can't benefit from the few new features in SL.

 

[str1f3]

Snow Leopard is a nice upgrade for the price. It's noticeably faster. My only gripes surrounding the Mac OS:

1. Apple has rewritten the Finder. Can't you guys give me the ability to have coverflow with columns. I hate list view and I like the preview ability of coverflow. I don't want to have to shell out $35 bucks for Path Finder when it's all I need. Also please add tabs.

2. I'd have also like to have seen some UI consistency. Why can't they make System Preferences have the same iTunes-like feel. Another thing I've noticed is that while iTunes and iPhoto have the same scroll bars, why do they both look different?

3. Instead of originally using Chrome's tabs on top, I would have like to seem them use Chrome's idea of merging the search and address bar without security issues. It's more clean, one less shortcut key to remember and simply easier.

Overall it's well worth the upgrade for the price and the speed gains that you get and hopefully now that they've done a redesign of the internals of the OS, they can get down to redesigning the broken UI.