Fastest boot maybe, but for the fastest shutdown, you have to go back to pre OS X era systems like Mac OS 7.5 The computer used to shutdown instantly as soon as you clicked "shutdown' in the menu. I miss that sometimes.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Launched 15 Years Ago Today With '0 New Features'
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ROTFL - Just sold our Sequoia, largely because gas prices in CA. That said, it's the perfect analogy for what Snow Leopard was in the era. Lion felt like a car-crash after it, and I wound up keeping a lot of machines for which I was responsible on 10.6.X until the tail end of Lion maturity into Mountain Lion. Agree with many others that I'd love to see a "0 New Features" MacOS version release again.
They need to take note and do the same again.
Releasing a new OS every year is pointless. Should be a major revision every 2-3 years and then focus on improving what's already there in the years between.
Releasing a new OS every year is pointless. Should be a major revision every 2-3 years and then focus on improving what's already there in the years between.
HFS+ was Mac OS 8.1, not 10.anything.
The rest were hardly features. Exchange support was and is a bug, email standards exist and that garbage is not one of them.
Yeah, I have it in a bin. Believe it or not, I actually had to use it a few months ago when I bought and old 5,1 cMP. It didn’t come with any disk drives, and the firmware was too old to boot from newer USB installers. Popped in the instal DVD and it was off to the races doing updates and firmware upgrades. That cMP is now running Monterey.
The old skeuomorphism was BEAUTIFUL.
10.7 took it to a stupid extreme, but we absolutely need to go back to the 10.6 appearance.
FLAT IS FUGLY.
I still use it as a ringtone on my phone.
Dropping intro movies was a total beancounter move. FIRE TIM!
It's all rather subjective, isn't it. You love the look of the Snow Leopard interface, I think it looks a bit cutesy now. You despise the flat look, I like it.
I'm not opposed to the idea of adding a bit of depth to the interface, but I just don't want to go back to a cutesy retro look.
Oh I remember the older time, where my nostalgia and imperfect memory makes me believe it was better than the new time which, while entirely obvious and well understood, I am completely unaware of. We should make the new time more like the old time!
At about the 5:30 mark in the Serlet presentation video, he announces that they have included AI in Preview (one of the greatest apps evah). Man SL was an incredible achievement.
Interesting Note: I have an ancient G4 Mac that I hook up and run when I need to do some accounting in Quickbooks. The reason for this is that this version of QBooks meets all my needs, and after this version on SL, Intuit changed the upgrade path and it got a lot more expensive. So if it aint broke, no need to send money to Intuit to fix it. What I find really interesting is that SL on my ancient G5 Mac is very performant. One might think, "Man it is going to be brutal using such old hardware." But one would be wrong. Still amazes me that it is so performant that I sometimes think it is faster than my modern Mac. Sadly in some ways I think it is.
If anyone who worked on Snow Leopard reads this, I say "Thanks". Your engineering triumph is still relevant and performant 15 years later. Wow.
Interesting Note: I have an ancient G4 Mac that I hook up and run when I need to do some accounting in Quickbooks. The reason for this is that this version of QBooks meets all my needs, and after this version on SL, Intuit changed the upgrade path and it got a lot more expensive. So if it aint broke, no need to send money to Intuit to fix it. What I find really interesting is that SL on my ancient G5 Mac is very performant. One might think, "Man it is going to be brutal using such old hardware." But one would be wrong. Still amazes me that it is so performant that I sometimes think it is faster than my modern Mac. Sadly in some ways I think it is.
If anyone who worked on Snow Leopard reads this, I say "Thanks". Your engineering triumph is still relevant and performant 15 years later. Wow.
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Bertrand is pretty much the ONLY person in the Job's era of Apple that was funnier than Jobs.
I still think Snow Leopard was my most favorite version of OS X (macOS). I have fond memories of it for some reason. Specifically, I really loved how Mission Control worked with the third mouse button. I was able to quickly navigate between programs with ease and speed. I forget right now what came after SL, but they changed how Mission Control worked and I was sorely disappointed.
The great thing is that you’re already getting all of that as part of every major release!
Why a forked one? macOS has never been as stable as before, designed with software tools and testing systems far more advanced than 15 years ago.
What do you mean ‘fallen’? Isn’t this just nostalgia? I mean, I get the sentiment and I look back at these days with great fondness. Apple was still a special company, in a way an underdog. A machine for the creatives. If you opened up your Apple laptop, people were looking at you.
But times changed - computers are commodities. They became so good, so elegant that they also became very boring. And while that transition happened, we got older and changed.
Maybe this feeling you have is not about Apple but something bigger: longing for a time that has gone by.
I should've wrote HFS+ in Boot Camp. Yes, not an earth shattering feature.
and with their applications to Logic Pro needs a good cleaning up. I'd say Apple needs to stop trying to worry about backwards compatibility of hardware and software a decade old.
SL was an amazing release. I ran it on two real Macs and a Hackintosh back in the day. It was SUPER fast on the hackintosh - faster than on my real Macs (although my real Macs were Core 2 Duo machines while my Hackintosh was based on Sandy Bridge I think). It was also the last release that had real strong support for Rosetta 1 PPC translation - I had some very VERY old music apps that were never ported to Intel (one of them because the single creator passed away) that I used to run on the Hack under SL for many years even well after SL was no longer supported. I do wish they had made SL the final PPC release, because it honestly was highly optimized - even on Intel, the difference between Leopard and SL was very noticeable. SL would have been a stellar release to send off the PPC platform...instead a lot of people into retro OS X are running Tiger on PPC.
I really should try to get a virtual Hack with SL working...Most of the current Hack projects involve modern OSes, but if I could dig out that old music software and run it via a VM on a modern machine, that would be quite a fun nostalgia trip!
I really should try to get a virtual Hack with SL working...Most of the current Hack projects involve modern OSes, but if I could dig out that old music software and run it via a VM on a modern machine, that would be quite a fun nostalgia trip!
