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Is Snow Leopard really Snore Leopard?

polaris20 said:
If you don't see the potential benefits in performance and/or functionality brought by the bolded, then more power to ya; stick with 10.5.

To me they're quite significant.
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Again, I think they'll be quite significant when software is written to take advantage of them.
 
Im happy with the way 10.6 looks. What new features does an OS really need at this point in time? Perhaps 3 years from now we will have a decent list of things we want and 10.6 will have made it easier to implement these features without causing osx to get sluggish. The only thing i want added to osx is cut/paste of files and better window management. I dont care if Steve gives cut/paste a new name so they can claim they invented it or anything, i would just like to see finder take a step closer to the rest of the world. Also, the dock it cool, but windows beats the daylights out of OSX as far as window management goes, and it always has. Windows 7 is great at keeping my windows organized, in Leopard i feel like everything is just floating around and hanging out.
 
I'm new to Apple and iMac's but to me Snow Leopard is a big deal. Dropping compatibility code for old PowerPC - alone is worth it for me.

Also looking forward to UI tweaks and the performance / optimisations promised. IMHO OS X is a mature OS and I am excited about 10.6 :cool:

As for calling 10.6 'Snore Leopard' - that's just childish.
 
I'm kind of excited to see what Snow sLeepard will bring to the table as it gets closer to release. Much like 3.0, I think they are holding some things close to the vest.
 
I don't think anyone can make an accurate judgment on that unless you're actually beta testing it. In that case, please tell me what's up, because I'm curious :D.
 
Eric5h5 said:
Might want to look up "quantum" in the dictionary. It simply means "an amount"...in physics it means the smallest possible unit, but I don't know why you'd use a physics definition for talking about something that is clearly not related to physics.

--Eric
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Actually, as defined by Mac OS 10.5 dictionary, it is
a required or allowed amount

A quantity is an amount

The physics definition is much more in depth than that. It is the smallest possible unit of energy required to change something. Meaning that in order to have blue light, certain quanta of energy are needed to bump it from green to blue, and anything less than that will not cause a change, anything more will be rounded down to the next closest frequency available.
 
To echo what many others are saying, Snow Leopard is not primarily designed to address the shortcomings of Leopard. It's nothing like what Microsoft is doing with Windows 7. That said, even Windows 7 is more than a service pack.

Apple is introducing some significant new technologies that will be overlooked by many, many users simply because they do not understand the technology behind the operating system. Please note that this statement is not an attack at anyone on this board. Apple would have very limited success advertising that, with Snow Leopard, your GPU can assist with tasks that were limited to your CPU in the past. Likewise, they are not going to explain why all cores are not running at 100% all the time.

The technologies introduced with Snow Leopard were never owed to users when they purchased Leopard. These are new technologies designed to better use the hardware that Apple has been releasing recently and will be releasing into the future. The operating system is the platform on which everything else operates. Thinking that Apple failed to deliver in the past because your hardware is running at less than 100% efficiency today suggests a lack of understanding of systems in general. Again, this is not an attack on anyone here in particular, just a response to what seems to be a general opinion of the update.

I'm not sure what my point was with all this, but those are some of my thoughts on the matter. Snow Leopard may seem boring on paper, agreed, but excitement does not always equate to value.
 
^agree.

Related note, I think Apple does a better job of beautifying things as opposed to MS.
 
i think snow leopard, with it's smaller footprint and improved 'quality' and other upgrades to just the 'core' of the system is a big step.

let's wait to see the ACTUAL operating system before we go dissing it. as far as i know, Snow Leopard is for sale, so why is everyone already dissatisfied with it?

i will be upgrading to Snow Leopard, but will wait about a month after it comes out to purchase the Family Pack.

I'm tired of Tiger on my Mac Mini, and it doesn't make sense to buy Leopard to just have another OS come out a few months later.

i wish we had an ETA.
 
Good thing you aren't forced to buy it. :rolleyes:

I, for one, will be pre-ordering the day that we are given the option.
 
Top three things

IMO the top 3 things are:

1. 64 bit through and through
2. Grand Central
3. OpenCL

These 3 things will immediately improve our computing ability in terms of developing leading edge computing applications.

Adobe and others will be able to deliver faster applications. Specialized applications will be possible where before they performance would be so slow as to be prohibitive.

I don't care one bit about visual changes for the sake of change. Leave that to M$.
 
I can't understand why people consider stuff like Grand Central or OpenCL to be tweaks/optimizations when in fact they are features. Apple with this release not only will make existing applications go faster but will also enable developers to build faster and better apps (if apple indeed delivers).

Since you mention that you would like to install 8gb of RAM in your MBP I take that the overall speed of your system is important to you. So how can you not see the importance of Snow Leopard?

All these aside I think that apple knows that people won't get excited about under the hood features, so I guess they are going to throw something flashy on top of it all.
 
Boneoh said:
IMO the top 3 things are:

1. 64 bit through and through
2. Grand Central
3. OpenCL

These 3 things will immediately improve our computing ability in terms of developing leading edge computing applications.

Adobe and others will be able to deliver faster applications. Specialized applications will be possible where before they performance would be so slow as to be prohibitive.

I don't care one bit about visual changes for the sake of change. Leave that to M$.
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Does Apple do signed drivers? I still wonder how Apple is going to tackle the drivers issue. Or are all driver already user mode drivers? What about ktexts? Aren't those kernel mode drivers?
 
For me. The current version of Leopard is just about perfect. I can't really think of any more features they could add to it. It does what I want and more. Now, they're gonna make it faster and utilize my multi-cores better??? OH NO! That sucks... this is going to be a crappy update. Geeze. Snow Leopard is just taking Leopard to a new level. I like new features, but I'd rather have speed and stability instead of a bunch of junk I won't use that just clutters up the system.
 
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