Apple is giving us the new Snow Leopard builds!!
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Latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Builds Still Have Work to be Done
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Forgive me for not violating my NDA..... but reading the seed notes there still are MANY known issues...
Oh, and the Server requires an Intel with 2.0 GB of RAM. I'll give you that
Oh, and the Server requires an Intel with 2.0 GB of RAM. I'll give you that
I figured as much but thanks for the info.
Have you followed previous development cycles? If so how does this compare to previous OS X releases?
I am still downloading this build. I have installed the previous version, so I'm dying to find out if it feels different, faster, etc.
I am on a 12 Mb connection, and downloading them both at the same time (2 x 6.2 GB...) takes a couple of hours, I'm afraid.
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I am still downloading this build. I have installed the previous version, so I'm dying to find out if it feels different, faster, etc.
I am on a 12 Mb connection, and downloading them both at the same time (2 x 6.2 GB...) takes a couple of hours, I'm afraid.
EDIT: pic of downloading
Sorry I meant in terms of 10.5, 10.4 etc. when referring to releases and development cycles.
Ah, I see.
Yes, I have followed those betas too (actually, from Jaguar upwards), and TBO reading these seed notes it doesn't really look like the development is half way yet.
Don't want to sound pessimistic, but having 2 pages of "issues" (installation issues, Time Machine network backup issues, other issues, Developer issues, Third party issues) makes me think that Snow Leopard seems at least 6 months away from Release Candidate.
Also lots of ".... not fully functional"
But... Apple never ceases to amaze me...
I wonder if Apple will finally completely unify the UI in Snow Leopard... Leopard still has lots of Aqua artifacts left over, most notably the scroll bars.
Latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Builds Still Have Work to be Done
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AppleInsider reports that new seeds of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard were recently distributed to developers.
The newest seed of Mac OS X 10.6 is said to offer new additions to Grand Central, which provides developers an easier way to harness the power of multiple processor cores. Apple's efforts to convert many of its existing apps to Cocoa are still underway but with much still left to be done on Font Book. Other areas that are undergoing ongoing revisions include power management for notebooks and 64-bit support.
While there had been some hints that Mac OS X 10.6 might arrive in the first quarter of 2009, Apple's official timeframe was "about a year" from this past June.
Article Link: Latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Builds Still Have Work to be Done
AppleInsider reports that new seeds of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard were recently distributed to developers.
The newest seed of Mac OS X 10.6 is said to offer new additions to Grand Central, which provides developers an easier way to harness the power of multiple processor cores. Apple's efforts to convert many of its existing apps to Cocoa are still underway but with much still left to be done on Font Book. Other areas that are undergoing ongoing revisions include power management for notebooks and 64-bit support.
While there had been some hints that Mac OS X 10.6 might arrive in the first quarter of 2009, Apple's official timeframe was "about a year" from this past June.
Article Link: Latest Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Builds Still Have Work to be Done
Do we have any more information on whether Snow Leopard will support PowerPc based Macs? I have Leopard on my PowerBook and was wondering if it would benefit from the likes of using the GPU for general computing as promised in Snow Leopard?!
I'd say 99% chance it won't run on PPC, but until they say it officially you ever know.
Looking forward to getting rid of Entourage.
You are right, especially the following is worth the wait:
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=6541117&posted=1#post6541117
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I refuse to believe that we'll see the performance increase that he's claiming. It's just not possible with software.
OpenCL will require a DirectX 10-Class GPU, which weren't in any PowerBook.
It sounds like a ton of the major os components are being largely or totally rewritten. While that's a great move for the future, I'm gonna steer WIDE clear of the 10.6.0 version and wait till a couple of last digit updates come out. A major under-the-hood rewrite of the OS code is sure to cause some serious problems at first.
I applaud Apple for doing this really worthwhile under-the-hood work that probably isn't gonna get as much attention or sales as some of the flashier OS cats that they've released in the past, but it's a very worthwhile investment in their long term sales. Still, I'm not gonna load Snow Leopard onto my Mac until the fallout from this major code rewrite has been smoothed over.
I applaud Apple for doing this really worthwhile under-the-hood work that probably isn't gonna get as much attention or sales as some of the flashier OS cats that they've released in the past, but it's a very worthwhile investment in their long term sales. Still, I'm not gonna load Snow Leopard onto my Mac until the fallout from this major code rewrite has been smoothed over.
GMA 950 (current Mac Minis, old Macbook) can't do DX10.
Guess I'll get some new hardware with Snow Leopard then.
For the past 2 major OS releases, I've updated the day (or day after) it came out and haven't had any real problems. The main reason for this is probably because I don't use any of my Macs at my job, so I'm not on it all hours of the day.
I wonder if Macs will have Nehalem by the release date? If so, and Nehalem & Snow Leopard are as fast as people say, yowza!
So I can't upgrade my wife's mini - darn.
when you say old macbook, I hope your not referring to anything pre-aluminum.... I have an early 2008 whitebook.