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Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - What, Where, When, Why & How much

Gizmodo - OS X Snow Leopard vs. Windows 7: The Final Countdown

Price/Availability - SL
Storage Footprint - Close so far
Startup/Shutdown/Sleep - Close so far
64-bit - Apple
Multicore Parallel Processing Powah - Apple's more vocal, but there's a lot of work on it at Microsoft if you watch MSDN channels about concurrency work for Redmond. - Close so far

GPGPU—Processing Powah Continued - Close so far. Apple able to bring it to pretty much all those upgrading to Snow Leopard
Browser - SL
Networking - Windows 7 (A valid win for Microsoft here, Apple could learn here)
Battery - CLose so far, by APple has historically better record
Media Player - Contentious. QT X could be pip WMP
Backgrounds - Windows wins the trippy award. Download what you want.
Backup/Backup Time - Apple gets simplicity, needs to tweak scheduling, content preferences wouldn't hurt. Windows catching up.
Dock vs. Taskbar - Contentious

UI - Apple
Exchange Support - Apple's SL has it. 7 doesn't.

Overall - Both faster, leaner, stronger, more stable. You know you can run 7 on a Mac, right? ;)

There' s a whole lot that goes into deciding whether you're a Mac or PC, but whatever one you pick, you definitely won't go wrong upgrading your OS this fall.
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Someone posted a while back that Snow Leopard allowed Cut and Paste in the Finder (can't find the post right now).

Can anyone confirm whether this is true or not?

-Kevin
 
kbmb said:
Someone posted a while back that Snow Leopard allowed Cut and Paste in the Finder (can't find the post right now).

Can anyone confirm whether this is true or not?

-Kevin
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I don't think it was in Finder. He showed a screenshot of cut running in Firefox which always had cut and paste.

The WWDC build didn't have it. Cut is in the Edit Menu but always grayed out in Finder.
 
Do you think they will fix the issue that when you have a lot of files, let's say 50. And the finder window shows 20, the other 30 are below the scroll. When you delete 40 of them the Finder doesn't automatically scroll up.

For example, I have 249 items:

picture1rjd.png


I click the 2nd one, and scroll all the way down to the last one so now that I have 248 items selected. Now I've deleted all but one item yet the finder window is still as large as it was when there were 249 items in it.

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I have to scroll all the way to the top to see my 1 item. As I do this the finder window realizes there are no other items.

EDIT: I'm not sure why the 2nd screen shot is kind of messed up near the bottom.
 
Does anyone have the blue aurora desktop image from Snow Leopard they would like to share with me?
 
Is anyone able to confirm if there is Exchange Public Folder support in Mail, iCal and Address Book?
 
Few Un noted features in SL

"Comupter Name" Screensaver Text Change-That's right you can now change the text of the "Computer Name" Screen saver.

Zoom In Cursor scrolling- In SL when zooming in, the cursor moves the screen in "cells" ( like a grid) instead of the normal Leopard "coninuous-top left- to bottom right " scrolling.
 
MACWhite said:
"Comupter Name" Screensaver Text Change-That's right you can now change the text of the "Computer Name" Screen saver.
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That's good to know, I've wanted this feature.

MACWhite said:
Zoom In Cursor scrolling- In SL when zooming in, the cursor moves the screen in "cells" ( like a grid) instead of the normal Leopard "coninuous-top left- to bottom right " scrolling.
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Can you please elaborate?
 
New SL features article on front page here covering
- Expanded Multi-Touch Capabilities for Older Notebooks: SL bringing 3 & 4-finger multi-touch gestures to multi-touch notebooks e.g. swipe for Exposé, switching applications
- iChat Video Chat Improvements: iChat Theater content can be displayed at up to a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels in Snow Leopard (iPhone video resolution?)
- "Auto Web Spots"
Rest of them from Maclife article seem to have been already covered here.

Some info on some font changes in Snow Leopard here.

Mac store is adding the EVGA GeForce GTX 285, it's likely this is one of the higher end cards to get support for Snow Leopard use...

10.5.8 getting internal testing at Apple as per AppleInsider
 
The feature of booting off of a dmg file doesn't seem to be there, or I can't find it. tried an image locally, on an external, messing around with Startup disk, nothing.
 
Sky Blue said:
The feature of booting off of a dmg file doesn't seem to be there, or I can't find it. tried an image locally, on an external, messing around with Startup disk, nothing.
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Did you do it via Disk Utility? You can't just click on the DMG.
 
NathanCH said:
Do you think they will fix the issue that when you have a lot of files, let's say 50. And the finder window shows 20, the other 30 are below the scroll. When you delete 40 of them the Finder doesn't automatically scroll up.

For example, I have 249 items:

picture1rjd.png
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Just tried this in 10.5 and 10.6. In 10.5, it does what you describe, you still have a "long" scrollbar until you scroll up.
In 10.6, the scroll automatically resizes.

I made a movie of it (attched)
 

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Sky Blue said:
The feature of booting off of a dmg file doesn't seem to be there, or I can't find it. tried an image locally, on an external, messing around with Startup disk, nothing.
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If you restore the SL dmg to a partition or to an external disk (even a usb stick) you can install from there without rebooting. This is the first seed that I have seen that can do that. With all previous seeds I had to install to another partition, reboot to that partition, and then install to a different 3rd partition (I keep 3 partitions just for this).
 
danny_w said:
If you restore the SL dmg to a partition or to an external disk (even a usb stick) you can install from there without rebooting. This is the first seed that I have seen that can do that. With all previous seeds I had to install to another partition, reboot to that partition, and then install to a different 3rd partition (I keep 3 partitions just for this).
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I use 2 partitions.

There was a feature mentioned months ago about how you could boot off an image file without having to restore it to a partition first.
 
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