please read Apple's Snow Leopard page and click on 64 bit. There's so much misconception around 64 bit vs 64 kernel. Apple is very clear and explicit about what it has promised.
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Everything seems solid so far. Easy install. Took about 45 minutes. iWow does not work so back to crappy iTunes sound. Quicktime kinda sucks though. The controller just sits in the center of the video. I just don't like the way it covers it. It's way too much like divx player. You don't have alot of the same easy trim controls as QT7. Preview for video in finder is nice and you can scale it pretty big. No more massive options for export if you had QT pro. It seems you have to go through Final Cut Pro
## Move your mouse OFF the QuickTime window, and the UI will disappear, including the transport controls!. Move it back over, and they will come back.
## Funny that, because there *IS* an option to install QT7 in the SL setup screen
## Trim controls ARE build into it; look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxy7kkQZlWk
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this was answered for me yesterday when I asked this question and should answer yours too
:check http://www.9to5mac.com/snow-leopard-64-bit-32-bit-firmware-efi
My copy of SL was shipped on Wednesday 26th in the morning (UK time). You'd think I'd have received it by Friday 28th? No. Saturday 29th? No. Do I now have to wait until Tuesday* to get it? Yes, unless I spend 40 mins on the bus and go to Westfield's Apple Store, buy a copy, then take one back when the Royal Mail finally decide to deliver.
Next time, I'm going to be one of the fanbois standing in the queue outside an Apple Store. I can't be frigged with the postal service anymore
I hope you're all enjoying your SL I have a Mac Pro and a June 2009 15-inch MBP waiting to upgrade. I swear the Mac Pro is crying...
* It's a Bank Holiday Monday in the UK, so no post. Figures.
Next time, I'm going to be one of the fanbois standing in the queue outside an Apple Store. I can't be frigged with the postal service anymore
I hope you're all enjoying your SL
I have a Mac Pro and a June 2009 15-inch MBP waiting to upgrade. I swear the Mac Pro is crying...* It's a Bank Holiday Monday in the UK, so no post. Figures.
My copy of SL was shipped on Wednesday 26th in the morning (UK time). You'd think I'd have received it by Friday 28th? No. Saturday 29th? No. Do I now have to wait until Tuesday* to get it? Yes, unless I spend 40 mins on the bus and go to Westfield's Apple Store, buy a copy, then take one back when the Royal Mail finally decide to deliver.
Next time, I'm going to be one of the fanbois standing in the queue outside an Apple Store. I can't be frigged with the postal service anymore
I hope you're all enjoying your SL
* It's a Bank Holiday Monday in the UK, so no post. Figures.
Time is infinitely more valuable than money - you should have just bought it from the Apple store.
Installed it in 30 minutes and I like it more than Leopard and sure Quicktime does lack the functionality of Quicktime 7 Pro but QT7 is included so I can't complain about that. Did anyone notice that in DVD player if you go into the preferences there is a preference called HD to control default video size and it shows options for standard and high definition so I think this means the introduction of Blu-ray can't be far away. Additionally I am willing to bet that once Blu-ray is supported, the DVD players will be the app to play them back and not itunes which had been rumored.
I would have, but the woman I chatted to on the Apple Store online said I would receive it by August 28th, and pointed out that it would be shipped earlier to make sure I got it. It was shipped earlier, but I still don't have it.
I don't blame Apple for this, I blame the ungrateful Royal Mail staff for striking in various parts of London, thus causing delays.
Much woe
I would have, but the woman I chatted to on the Apple Store online said I would receive it by August 28th, and pointed out that it would be shipped earlier to make sure I got it. It was shipped earlier, but I still don't have it.
Much woe
I was told the same thing and by the time I learned it was untrue, it was too late for me to do anything but wait. I am angry at Apple for this.
What's the point of this 10 base counting? I'm see more space but its not really?
You have the same space. A big advantage is that you can now easily round numbers off by lopping off decimal places. A 14,307 MB file is 14.3 GB. (A 14,307 MiB file is 13.97 GiB - not so easy.)
Actually, the computer stores file sizes as decimal bytes. In the past (thankfully now in the past), the display utilities would divide the decimal size by 1024 one or more times, and show you a "distorted" number.
Now, the utilities divide the decimal size by 1000 (one or more times) to show the correct rounded size.
Interpret them as you always did, the difference between decimal and binary is seldom more than a few percent.
Exactly.
No, but then none of your other programs take advantage of them either.
Warning
Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
It's either that, or I failed to note that you should back up RAID sets before doing a clean install of a new OS, and then re-create the set in the new OS. I'm a RAID noob anyway, but I assumed OS X would recognize RAID drives created in earlier versions.
Got all my data back, though.
Snow Leopard doesn't seem to like mirrored RAID sets created in Leopard.
Drives used: WD MyBook Essential 1TB, Fantom 1TB. Might be just a drive issue (but both??) and (more likely) an SL issue.
So back up your data on your Leopard-created RAID sets and then re-create them in SL.
IF SL hangs, freezes, or otherwise requires you to reboot because it does not recognize your Leopard-created RAID set, DO NOT delete the set in SL. It will destroy all partition and directory info on the drives. Your data might still be there but you might need Data Rescue II or a similar utility to recover it.
Install or re-install Leopard, back up your RAID set, and proceed.
Most people really don't use a RAID configuration in OS X, especially when it comes to notebooks and home-use iMacs (I assume), but for the few that do, it looks like (at least in my case) SL did not like RAID sets created in Leopard.
It's either that, or I failed to note that you should back up RAID sets before doing a clean install of a new OS, and then re-create the set in the new OS. I'm a RAID noob anyway, but I assumed OS X would recognize RAID drives created in earlier versions.
Got all my data back, though.
Or you can blame Apple for sending it Second Class? I'm completely fine paying a £7.95 for UTD "shipping and handling", but is First Class really too expensive for a disk in a paper sleeve?I would have, but the woman I chatted to on the Apple Store online said I would receive it by August 28th, and pointed out that it would be shipped earlier to make sure I got it. It was shipped earlier, but I still don't have it.
I don't blame Apple for this, I blame the ungrateful Royal Mail staff for striking in various parts of London, thus causing delays.
Much woe
My Snow Leopard UTD arrived this morning (UK), and aside from that minor annoyance, I couldn't be happier. (Heck, I'm easily pleased with the Aurora wallpaper!)
mine didnt even come in a box. it came in a envelope, those Jiffy Mailing Bags. in it was the booklet, and the disc. thats all. i ordered from apple online store, UTD program.
I can sell you my box for only the shipping costs if that would make you happy. Seriously...
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember that AppleWorks needs CLASIC which does not run in Leopard or Snow Leopard.
You should consider converting your documents to pages, word or RTF as soon as possible, the longer you wait the less likely that you will be able to access those files in the future.
Like I said, I could be wrong.
I'm pretty sure the last versions of AppleWorks were OS X native, although even that doesn't necessarily guarantee compatibility with Snow Leopard
iWork
It seems that it wasn't only Tiger users that were being advised to run the boxed set to upgrade. When I tried to open iWork 08, after upgrading from Leopard,it gave me the option to either purchase or have a free trial. So I guess it's 09. A document created by iwork 06 was incompatible - but not with Word.
It seems that it wasn't only Tiger users that were being advised to run the boxed set to upgrade. When I tried to open iWork 08, after upgrading from Leopard,it gave me the option to either purchase or have a free trial. So I guess it's 09. A document created by iwork 06 was incompatible - but not with Word.
Anyone out there using Little Snitch with SL.
I'm having serious Safari and Wireless issues and even after turning Little Snitch (SL beta) off it's still causing problems. Safari/Quicktime is crashing on QuickTime sites a lot (Apple's Trailer site for one).
I'm having serious Safari and Wireless issues and even after turning Little Snitch (SL beta) off it's still causing problems. Safari/Quicktime is crashing on QuickTime sites a lot (Apple's Trailer site for one).
You can definitely run AppleWorks (at least, AppleWorks 6) in Snow Leopard - all it needs is Rosetta.
I'm still looking for 'Grand Central'
It's not an app, it's a framework. Install Xcode, start a new project and include the Grand Central framework. There it is.