Came here to say that exact thing, I audibly laughed watching this. Then also realised, at least they had a setting to prevent it, on my Mac and iPhone it's a constant battle.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Launched 15 Years Ago Today With '0 New Features'
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they should do this for two years straight. Just to really iron things out and cut the code size in half.
My first Mac - a 13” MacBook Pro. Very solid OS and fast. I still use this OS few years later until its Safari had lots of issues reading the modern websites (I don’t like Chrome / Firefox).
Today marks the 15th anniversary of Apple releasing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, which became available to purchase for $29 on August 28, 2009.
After advertising Mac OS X Leopard as having "over 300 new features" in 2007, Apple previewed Snow Leopard at WWDC 2008. Notably, during that year's "State of the Union" session, Apple showed a presentation slide that said the update had "0 new features," as Apple opted to focus on under-the-hood performance and stability improvements.
"We've built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown," said Apple's former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. "Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before."
With Snow Leopard, Apple said it refined 90% of the foundational "projects" that were built into Mac OS X. Apple pitched the update as offering a more responsive Finder app, an improved Mail app that loads emails up to twice as fast as before, up to 80% faster Time Machine backups, and a 64-bit version of Safari that was up to 50% faster than the previous version. Snow Leopard also took up around half as much disk space as Leopard.
You can watch Serlet speak more about Snow Leopard at WWDC 2009 below.
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No, Leopard was/is great. However, it was a very refined version of OS X for most users at that point. I’d be willing to bet a lot of us have nostalgia for that changeover period between OS 9 and the early versions of OS X, which were charming and different, if a little unstable during the first few releases. Leopard was probably a perfect intro to using Macs for many, though.
Idc what anyone thinks this was and still is my fav Mac OS X version.
I had started with Mac OS 9 and by the time snow leopard was out my main rig was a Mac Pro running Logic Pro 9. Most stable audio setting I’ve ever ever owned. I’ve downsized significantly but I do miss that setup.
I had started with Mac OS 9 and by the time snow leopard was out my main rig was a Mac Pro running Logic Pro 9. Most stable audio setting I’ve ever ever owned. I’ve downsized significantly but I do miss that setup.
It was 29$ compared to 129$ for Leopard so we all thought it was an absolute bargain. If you compare the value it gave to the yearly cycle we go through nowadays, SL was much better value than the junk of today.
The majority of folk came to the Mac after the classic OS was dumped in the trash. It was a toy compared to a real multi-tasking OS like Mac OS X. Classic MacOS wasn't even on-par with Windows 3.
Snow Leopard is what was installed on my first Mac ever (late 2009 iMac). While it was not my introduction to Mac it was the first one I had personally owned and this was in February of 2010. It was a great time to make the switch over from Windows where I had grown tired of building gaming PC’s and just wanted to settle down and live the easy life. I haven’t looked back since and I’d like to think the stability and general awesome-ness of SL made that happen! 🙂
This is what Tim took from us.
I think it would be really popular. Stability, usability, clarity and speed are more useful than yet another set of emojis.
And of course, it was the first Intel-only Mac OS X version, also being the only one to run on the 32-bit Intel Core Solo/Duo systems.
Because of this, I kind of group my 2006 Core Duo 17" iMac and 15" MacBook Pro as kind of a bridging point between my PowerPC Macs and my Intel Macs in my collection.
Because of this, I kind of group my 2006 Core Duo 17" iMac and 15" MacBook Pro as kind of a bridging point between my PowerPC Macs and my Intel Macs in my collection.
Apple should do the same with iPhone releases too…problem is money. Apple likes money
The reason they were able to do this on Mac, was because they were so far ahead of their competitors. They did it again with Mountian Lion, it had new features, but mostly focused on stability and under the hood improvements. iOS and android are too close together as far as competition goes, taking a year off could hurt sales and might hurt image. Most users wouldn't care how much more stable their phone is, because most users have a very stable phone.
Tough call - I might take Avie. But it's really hard to appreciate one without the other. The two of them were a monster dynamic duo.
They dropped the entire PowerPC lineup 😂
Might happen again with they finally drop the Intel models and the x86 architecture.
Same here, the stereo cabinet mini was a 2006 model that stayed in use until 2019. Then it would no longer talk to the iTunes Store or anything else on the internet. And it never could play a HD video without replacing the CPU.
Fortunately by 2019 the 2014 mini's were available at a reasonable price. Now that that machine is rolling off support what to do is the question. Keep it as is but block it from the internet, get a used M1 mini, convert to linux (which works just fine on the 2014), put the M1-Air in the cabinet and get a new laptop (the most expensive option) or some other option?
I moved from Windows 3 to my first Mac running System 7.5.3. Even back then, Mac OS was far, far better than Windows 3.