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

Peace said:
When I hit cmd click it just opens the finder no matter what app is open.
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This was the old behaviour. Are you on the latest build.
Have to offer up the most annoying answer in tech: it works for me.
 
ok so if I'm upgrading from tiger its still gonna cost me $129 plus another $29 for snow leopard?
 
Some articles:
Snow Leopard hints at Apple tablet here

Daniel Eran Dilger writes for AppleInsider about Apple dropping deployment support for its WebObjects web application server in 10.6's Server version here.(WebObjects being Apple's currrent enterprise framework for developing web applications and the company's Java web application server that deploys them. WebObjects has been used for the iTunes Store, .mac site, iTunes U, iPhone App Store as per article. The Java-based web application server is a web application framework that runs on the server.) Will Apple push people either to Java fully, or to an in the works alternative?

AppleTalk also likely to go, as pointed out here (citing linked Infoworld and Ars Technica articles)

AppleBlog has a recap on Grand Central Dispatch here

AMD's response on OpenCL:
AMD has been and continues to be a leader in adopting and supporting open standards, OpenCL is a very important open standard that we are heavily invested in and expect to have more details available publicly shortly
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123macmini.com has O'Reilly down as announcing David Pogue's "Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual" as hitting stores in August, 1,000 odd pages, for RRO $34.99 - ready now for pre-order from Amazon, o'Reilly, B&N. "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition" likely to come in at 600 odd pages, for October as a guide for switchers / new users.

More chatter on the lines about Apple & Nvidia and what Apple's options are for it's next update of Macs GPU etc wise, e.g.Macrumors here
 
iPhil said:
wrong price.... it'll $169.99 plus S&h and any local or state tax that's in affect...



Family Mac box set is 229.00 plus S&h and any local or state tax that's in affect...
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Nobody adds s&h and tax when they're talking about stuff. And still, the base price is $170. That's called rounding.
 
Peace said:
you don't have to hold down the cmd key then click. All you have to do is click on the icon. No "cmd key" needed.
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Who said anything about a cmd key :confused:

You said "There is no "Dock Expose' mode""

There is. You click and hold on the icon in the dock.
 
elppa said:
Small Tip, which I haven't seen mentioned elsewhere: In Dock Exposé, command clicking on an app adds its windows to the display.

Here's an example:
If you have Terminal Windows open in Dock Exposé, command clicking on the Finder shows Terminal + Finder windows, but not the Pages, Mail and Safari windows you also had open. Command click again on Pages to add the Pages windows. Command option click to remove an item you have added to the selection (Finder or Pages).

As usual, the shift key works to invoke slow motion mode.

The major flaw is if you want to remove the windows from the app you invoked Dock Exposé with, you can't, so in the above example you can't remove the terminal windows because you invoked Dock Exposé with terminal.

As far as I am aware in every previous version of Exposé you could only see windows from all application or windows from one application, so this is a nice addition.
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Sky Blue said:
Who said anything about a cmd key :confused:

You said "There is no "Dock Expose' mode""

There is. You click and hold on the icon in the dock.
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That person did. And there is no "Dock Expose Mode" per se. At least it's not officially called that.

[edit] elppa may be referring to a portable. But the new laptops just use a "tap" and it's there. [/edit]
 
Snow Leopard 10A402

is out. A 1.31GB update, coming through the Software Updater. Recommended for all users running the Snow Leopard Developer Preview Build 10A394 or later...

New features being mentioned by users include new list view in the Dock, change to QT version, and third party system preference panes now reportedly work.

Other features reported:
  • Better battery life
  • Snappier Safari
  • Overall system boost
  • Marble being used in the dock menus
  • Contextual dock menus in list view
  • Exposé for multiple monitors fixed
  • 3rd party preferences panes becoming functional
  • QuickTime version build 10.0 (42)
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Image from AppleInsider article here




Ars Technica take here:

The change from 10.5 grid view, 10.5 list view, to 10.6 list view (left to right).
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Slightly strange that the slide knob interface elements have been tweaked but still blue - maybe aqua blues will change to these altered blues?

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I've called Apple about upgrading from Tiger, I've been told it's $120 for the disk. I called a couple times and they said the same thing. Try yourself :p
 
I have a question about users of the Snow Leopard preview who obtained it in ways other than Apple's distribution at WWDC and to developers:

Has apple explicitly stated that obtaining or running the Snow Leopard preview is illegal for non-developers?

I understand that downloading it from a torrent or receiving it from a friend is taking for free software that eventually will be sold. Any information you could provide as to the defined (not speculative) legality of running a preview build would be appreciated.
 
Peace said:
That person did. And there is no "Dock Expose Mode" per se. At least it's not officially called that.

[edit] elppa may be referring to a portable. But the new laptops just use a "tap" and it's there. [/edit]
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Banging head against brick wall. :D

[1] Click and hold on the Dock icon to see the windows for one app.
[2] Here's where the command key comes in: Command + click to add another applications' windows to the selection visible in Exposé. A single click will just switch to show the Windows for the apps you clicked on.
 
Shake 'n' Bake said:
That pic of the Dock looks like a theme. Is that true or is it the emergence of Marble?
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The dock theme is probably custom but the Dock Menu in my opinion is called HUD, not Marble. It matches the HUD theme in other Apps like iMovies and so on.
 
MikhailT said:
The dock theme is probably custom but the Dock Menu in my opinion is called HUD, not Marble. It matches the HUD theme in other Apps like iMovies and so on.
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But it is new. There's nothing like that in Leopard. And I don't think it was in any previous builds either.
 
Shake 'n' Bake said:
But it is new. There's nothing like that in Leopard. And I don't think it was in any previous builds either.
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You misunderstood me, I didn't say that the menus are not new and I was talking about two different things, the Dock itself and the Menus. I am saying the new Dock Menus look is not really part of Marble (which may not exist at all or actually named after the theme used at MobileMe and has nothing to do with OSX), instead its actually commonly called HUD (heads up display) which takes after the dark overlay theme that Apple started in iPhone and iMovies and other Apple iLife Apps.

As for the dock itself, it is possible somebody replaced the Dock itself with a different dock theme, because it is not what it look like on mine. Looks lighter and 3d on mine.
 
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