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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today
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The new Quicktime recording options are absolutely golden. And so simple to use. Now all it has to do is play .mkv files again and I'll be happy. So really, Perian needs an update. Until then there's always VLC.
In terms of speed, this thing flies.
Love the new Exposé features, especially Dock Exposé. The way the screen darkens when Exposé is activated is now more subtle, and much more elegant. Plus, the inclusion of minimized Windows is a great idea, separated by a line, even. Window arrangement is much better now.
I thought Quicklook was brilliant, but now we have enhanced icon views in addition to that. Nice.
I'd love to be able to Quicklook any folder or drive, and have that turn into a Stacks view so I can see inside. I know there's likely a 3rd party plugin for that, but I'd love to see it as a standard feature.
In terms of speed, this thing flies.
Love the new Exposé features, especially Dock Exposé. The way the screen darkens when Exposé is activated is now more subtle, and much more elegant. Plus, the inclusion of minimized Windows is a great idea, separated by a line, even. Window arrangement is much better now.
I thought Quicklook was brilliant, but now we have enhanced icon views in addition to that. Nice.
I'd love to be able to Quicklook any folder or drive, and have that turn into a Stacks view so I can see inside. I know there's likely a 3rd party plugin for that, but I'd love to see it as a standard feature.
The problem has been resolved after turning off the machine overnight, even though I rebooted several times.
No problems here, but you probably never learned to do it the right way i.e. to use a legacy kext
And the people here claiming to have gained 20GB (nothing personally) they obviously never used tools like CleanMyMac, which takes care of things like universal binaries and language packs; making application startup (much) quicker, and preserving lots of HD space.
Personally I think Apple should stick with their knitting and leave the extra support up to third parties; if Apple were to support it, it would require them to pay more in royalties and so forth; the h264 is already a rip off as it is for most vendors to pay. Let the third parties cater for the needs so Apple can focus on the core fundamentals of the operating system.
I thought i would report back on by "service battery" message that I got when I installed SL. If you are receiving that message do go to a apple store and get it checked out. Chances are whatever it says it is correct and if it says something like service battery or replace or similar you should do it. Mine was covered by AppleCare so if you have it you should not have any issues.
Just thought I'd post a minor change I stumbled upon in Snow Leopard:
When you zoom in, (ctrl - scroll) the zoom no longer moves with the mouse, instead it's static until you "push" the page around by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen in the direction you want to go..
Hmm
When you zoom in, (ctrl - scroll) the zoom no longer moves with the mouse, instead it's static until you "push" the page around by moving the mouse to the edge of the screen in the direction you want to go..
Hmm
WOW! (exclamation not a World of Warcraft comment)
I may not be a power user to the point where all the new features will be noticed.... but the boot time and the time from login tomy auto load apps (mail, safari etc...) is so fast that it is almost in the too good to be true category.
Hard to believe this was only a whopping $29 refresh.
thanks Apple
I may not be a power user to the point where all the new features will be noticed.... but the boot time and the time from login tomy auto load apps (mail, safari etc...) is so fast that it is almost in the too good to be true category.
Hard to believe this was only a whopping $29 refresh.
thanks Apple
Nerds rejoice! Still waiting on my copy though
I am not noticing much but I am loving the screen record feature. Is the top menu bar missing common in screen recording software?
Installed like a charm using Remote Disc although it took closer to an hour (no big deal). The big surprise was how much disc space I reclaimed - my 320gb drive went from having 225GB free to 253GB - 28GB recovered!! Can this be right??? The one thing I noticed was in 10.5 the disk came up as 292GB, which I guess was the size after formatting, but now it's showing up as 319.73GB - almost the full size of the disk.
Can anyone take an educated guess as to what's going on here? I'm obviously happy with recovering so much disk space but I'm also pretty confused as to exactly what's happening.
Can anyone take an educated guess as to what's going on here? I'm obviously happy with recovering so much disk space but I'm also pretty confused as to exactly what's happening.
There's no guess to take. Before, OS X showed you your disk capacity using the CS standard for Gigabytes, being that 1 GB = 1024 MB = 1048576 KB etc..
Snow Leopard uses the SI prefixes as approved by the IEEE and used by HDD manufacturers, 1 GB = 1000 MB = 1000000 KB etc...
Hence why now it displays the same size as what is advertised on the HDD.
Like everyone else, you haven't recovered more than 7 or so Gigs. However, with the unit conversion, it looks even bigger, but it's not, if you look at it from a bytes perspective.
I'd say "CS practice" instead of "CS standard", but since you did use lower-case "standard" it's more or less the same....
Now, if we can only get Microsoft to abandon the old, deprecated method and follow the international standard nomenclature!
I did a clean install. I just don't know what's wrong with this bluetooth thing...
I mean it see's my device. but it just won't sync in properly, Like it won't add as a device. it keeps turning out like this
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Waiting for Amazon
Ordered from Amazon on Thursday, 8/27 for $25. Probably won't ship till Monday.
Got a Mac Pro with two HD's. Going to install it on my secondary drive and give it a week or two for bug patrol.
Ordered from Amazon on Thursday, 8/27 for $25. Probably won't ship till Monday.
Got a Mac Pro with two HD's. Going to install it on my secondary drive and give it a week or two for bug patrol.
It might help get wider adoption if the prefixes for the old method weren't Kibi, Mebi, Gibi, etc..
That's personally why I still use gigabyte to refer to 1024 megabytes. Because the alternative sounds like something out of some yaoi film.
File info in the Finder and on the dekstop is now instantly updated - eg if you have "show item info" enabled on the desktop and you can see the free space available on your drive, once you empty the Trash this info is immediately refreshed rather than having to wait an arbitrary amount of time like I always had to do in Leopard - nice!
Aww, now Im really pissed I didnt wait for an intel Mac.
You would probably do yourself a great favor if you buy new Mac now, no matter what you bought years ago...
Wow, Snow Leopard is totally boring. I hope we don't have to wait another two years for an upgrade. Gotta admit, I'm actually looking forward to Windows 7 now.