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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today

Microsoft as always wants to please the dumb kids with those kiddie backgrounds. A computer is not a toy, its ment for work. When its ment for fun its ment for grown up fun, and not kiddie fun.
 
Target362 said:
Microsoft as always wants to please the dumb kids with those kiddie backgrounds. A computer is not a toy, its ment for work. When its ment for fun its ment for grown up fun, and not kiddie fun.
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I think the word you were looking for was "meant".

And seriously, the rise of the PC, MS-DOS and Windows was all based on gaming. Most guys my age started experimenting with DOS back in the days on older x86 machines to play games.

What makes you think that 20 years later, it's any different ? (aside from the games being much less about gameplay nowadays).
 
Target362 said:
Microsoft as always wants to please the dumb kids with those kiddie backgrounds. A computer is not a toy, its ment for work. When its ment for fun its ment for grown up fun, and not kiddie fun.
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People are seriously comparing operating systems based on the choice of desktop bitmaps provided in the box? And they're picking one of the "kid" bitmaps to claim that one OS is immature.

The immaturity is not in the bitmap.

How about we use a black background, and compare them for how useful the systems are as tools?
 
Sehnsucht said:
:cool: The new Quicktime theme is awesome. They should have made this the default theme for all of SL.
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I think it's great for full screen playback but windowed playback just looks weird.

I don't like the controls obscuring a massive chunk of the movie when you're in windowed mode. It kinda looks orphaned sitting out there without any window border around it.
 
billystlyes said:
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. :eek:
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Wow you're on the wrong website try a Bing search for a Windows Rumors Forum you fit right in there! then you can share your exuberance with other Windows fanboys over Windows 7 and Super-fast Internet Explorer 8. Maybe you give them better insight on choice of virus programs. :rolleyes:
 
MarkCooz said:
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

http://twitpic.com/ftme0
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I've never been able to get Bluetooth to work; either with PC/Windows or Mac - I've basically resided to using a USB cable instead. Thats all I can suggest for you to do too.
 
Ram Max on SL with 2008 UNIBODY MBP 2.53 GHZ 15"

does anyone know if the Ram Maximum went up to 8GB's for the 2008 unibody MBP's on Snow Leopard....I know its currently at 6 but I guess Im just wishin and hopin...Anybody?
 
AidenShaw said:
How about we use a black background, and compare them for how useful the systems are as tools?
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Actually, most graphic designers use 50% (or 28%) gray as a background, because that is the most powerful "benchmark". Everything is put in proper perspective on a neutral background -- and having "the dullest" background does not disturb you while working.

So yes, that'd be it, but it's just so dull most lose interest in the machine because it looks like it's meant for serious work and not for fun ;)
 
Am I doing something wrong? This is the second 222K I've had and it has the same issues as the first.
 
JFreak said:
Actually, most graphic designers use 50% (or 28%) gray as a background, because that is the most powerful "benchmark". Everything is put in proper perspective on a neutral background -- and having "the dullest" background does not disturb you while working.

So yes, that'd be it, but it's just so dull most lose interest in the machine because it looks like it's meant for serious work and not for fun ;)
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Well, when I design a website I tend to ask, "if I have an hang over, what colour is going to cause me not to have a headache and then vomit".

Yes, I do loath bright white backgrounds for web pages as much as I hate bright red.
 
themoonisdown09 said:
I love the fact that Bootcamp 3.0 allows you to read Mac volumes.

I also love the new Wake On Demand feature. I use a free internet service called LogMeIn that allows you to access your Mac (or PC) from any other computer. I could never access my iMac from work because my iMac was always asleep. Hopefully (I'll try it when I install it tonight), this will allow me to access it even when it's asleep.
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LogMeIn is awesome! Free remote access that works flawlessly. I found out about it 2 or 3 years ago and love it. I have no affiliation with them whatsoever - just giving a hearty recommendation to anyone looking for remote access solutions.
 
Appleworks 6

Mackilroy said:
You can definitely run AppleWorks (at least, AppleWorks 6) in Snow Leopard - all it needs is Rosetta.
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Ive tried iWork6 and all I get is an offer to Buy or Try. The odd thing is it does this as 'Iwork 6'. It doesn't for instance offer me Apple Iwork 9. I have rosetta installed. It was needed for windows apps.
 
Was never really impressed by any of the features of snow leopard except this. Makes me want to upgrade for that reason alone :rolleyes:
 
LEStudios said:
Wow you're on the wrong website try a Bing search for a Windows Rumors Forum you fit right in there! then you can share your exuberance with other Windows fanboys over Windows 7 and Super-fast Internet Explorer 8. Maybe you give them better insight on choice of virus programs. :rolleyes:
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Yes, god forbid that somebody who likes Windows better than SL actually post in this forum. For shame! :rolleyes:

Don't be a troll. You're the one acting like a fanboy. You'll notice that he didn't spout any rhetoric.
 
BigJimmyC said:
Yes, god forbid that somebody who likes Windows better than SL actually post in this forum. For shame! :rolleyes:

Don't be a troll. You're the one acting like a fanboy. You'll notice that he didn't spout any rhetoric.
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Ah, mate, if you haven't realised, this is a Mac forum. If you're coming in here, cheerleading for Windows it is pretty blatant that your actions are as a troll.

You don't see me go off and registering for Windows related forums to tell them what operating system they should run or the apparent superiority of Snow Leopard over Windows 7.

It's called maturity, something that is lacking on the internet in truck loads.
 
bc008 said:
Was never really impressed by any of the features of snow leopard except this. Makes me want to upgrade for that reason alone :rolleyes:
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Yea, I noticed that too. I hate it when I take some screenshots, they land on the desktop and I drag them into a folder, then I take some more screenshots and need to rename them if I wanna place them in the same folder.

Anoterh nice touch is the Finder's column vie scrolling. If you are deep down inside a folder hierarchy and hit the left cursor key, it guesses that you want to scroll left and not just select the parent folder. These kind of things are hard to get right.

I think I'll see more subtle changes like that. Doing the final SuperDuper backup of my drive right now before installing Snow Leopard. I don't trust Time Machine for restoring a whole volume because I tried it once and so preferences were different or it would just refuse to restore. All the apps and drivers I need work now, so I'm good to go. :)
 
HELP: Strange problem with Clean SL install on new MacPro drive

Before installing Leopard on my new WD RE3 HD I went into Leopard disk utilities and chose PARTITION and then under advanced I chose GUID and let it do its thing.

Now when the disks display on boot (I have both Leopard & Snow Leopard bootable disks availale) when I hold down the OPTION key the Leopard disk shows as "Leopard" but the new Snow Leopard disk displays as "EFI Boot" and I have been told it's because it was not formatted as a GUID disk.

Would installing and booting up with Snow Leopard even be possible on a non GUID disk? The Snow Leopard drive is designated as the boot drive and it boots up just fine with no error messages...

It's obvious that the RE3 IS GUID as when I go into disk utilities either in Leopard or Snow leopard and look at the properties of the RE3 disk containing SL it recognizes it as GUID so it must be a bug.

It's only when I do a selective boot that I see it as "EFI Boot disk" lable

Anyone else seen this?

MacPro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.6) 6 GB ram.. iLife 08 Aperture / CS3 / LightZone
 
MrCrowbar said:
Yea, I noticed that too. I hate it when I take some screenshots, they land on the desktop and I drag them into a folder, then I take some more screenshots and need to rename them if I wanna place them in the same folder.

Anoterh nice touch is the Finder's column vie scrolling. If you are deep down inside a folder hierarchy and hit the left cursor key, it guesses that you want to scroll left and not just select the parent folder. These kind of things are hard to get right.

I think I'll see more subtle changes like that. Doing the final SuperDuper backup of my drive right now before installing Snow Leopard. I don't trust Time Machine for restoring a whole volume because I tried it once and so preferences were different or it would just refuse to restore. All the apps and drivers I need work now, so I'm good to go. :)
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I'm being sold on the subtleties as well. And as developers begin to take advantage of OpenCL and other under-the-hood features, it'll just get better.

What I find a little irritating at the moment is that Quicktime still doesn't support Matroska. Relying on Perian is fine, but that hasn't been updated yet.
 
Smooth install Late 08 Imac 24

Some of the comments here made me wait a few days, but I used the update install, and no problems.

Been running since, only issue is airfoil, but that's hardly Apple's fault.

A bit faster overall, none of my line of business apps had problems. Schweeeeet. :D
 
Sounds like Snow Leopard is really shaping up ;O

is there anything that's truly broken in it? I don't mean random crashes, I mean flat out "everytime I do [x], it crashes"?
 
For what it's worth, my current app list (aside from what comes with the OS), all functioning normally.

AppCleaner
Data Rescue II
DivX Converter/Player
Evernote
Flip4Mac
iWork '09 (all)
iLife '09 (all)
MailPlane
Mpeg Streamclip
NetNewsWire
Picturesque
Pixelmator
Steermouse (need to use in conjunction with standard mouse prefs pane)
Stuffit
TechTool Pro 5
Toast Titanium 9
Transmission
UnRarX
uTorrent
VLC

I have a bunch of others I haven't installed yet. They'll get installed as the need arises.
 
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