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Mac OS X Snow Leopard Officially Launched Today

The way I understand the discrepancy between how many GBs of space recovered is the reporters aren't factoring in that Snow Leopard changes the way the size of disks are reported.

So when someone states they recovered 24 GBs and the next person reports 17 GB recovered they're wrong. The larger the drive, the more people are going to think they're recovering. People need to factor in now the size of their drive. Before, a 250 GB drive had only around 230 GBs reporting as it was reporting true space by bytes. Now, Snow Leopard will report the drive as an actual 250 GBs as it's actually calculating differently!

So people should all recover around the exact same 7 GBs of space. The rest of the "gained space" isn't truly gained but rather just a factor of the disk reporting difference in Snow Leopard. Even the supposed "tech expert" journalists who reported the gained space couldn't figure out that they're not really gaining 24 GBs but around 7 GBs and the rest is due to how Snow Leopard calculates a GB!

Wouldn't we all think the "expert" journalist to explain/understand this better?
 
My SL is still riding around Long Beach on a FedEx truck. I hate how incosistent they are!! Some days they're here at 8AM. Other days, 6PM. You'd figure the drivers would have a general route to follow.
 
Surely said:
It's such a shame that your computer is useless until SL arrives. I can't believe that my computer still worked after midnight.

You know, it might still ship today- the day isn't over.
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My computer is far from useless, but I leave for a super science fair in Kyoto soon and I was hoping to have SL before then. True it still might ship today, but I am not so sure. I guess we will see what happens.
 
Time Machine?

So if you do an upgrade install, what's the deal with your Time Machine backup? Is the old one still useful (i.e., can you continue to add to it), or is it a case of archiving it and starting over?
 
goodwilldrums said:
The FedEx man that delivered my shipment to me said: "What ARE these things??"

Apparently he's got a few of the same boxes in his truck!:)
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My FedEx guy said to me "I have your Snow Leopard for you", he said his truck has a bunch for all the people in my small town of about 30,000 people. So I asked him how many he had, he said he lost count but that he had a lot of them. At that I said that I was surprised about the number of Macs in the town, and he said there were a lot. So I asked him if he had a Mac since he knew what was in these boxes and he said no, that he is waiting for his PC to die to get a Mac.
 
Eric S. said:
So if you do an upgrade install, what's the deal with your Time Machine backup? Is the old one still useful (i.e., can you continue to add to it), or is it a case of archiving it and starting over?
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It will keep appending as long as you have space. It's going to be a big backup.
 
queshy said:
This sucks. I pre-ordered it the day it was announced at like noon, and now it looks like it won't arrive 'til Monday. What the hell is the point of pre-ordering then? It's really nice to be one of the first people to PAY for SL...again, I know this is not a huge release and it's just an OS, but still, Apple really screwed this up, as instead of pre-ordering I could have just walked into any store today and picked one up.
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Pre-ordering is for those impulsive buyers. You know the ones who often get malware and phished because they just have to click click click without pause. :D
 
I ordered mine on August 25, and it used to say Delivers on August 28. The status has just changed to "Shipped on August 28 by USPS". It now says it will be delivered on September 2, 2009. It was an "Up-to-Date" purchase. The other UTD copy I ordered yesterday has not yet shipped.
 
Since I'm still waiting for my UTD copy of SL to arrive (*sigh*), does anyone know if the "Wake on Demand" feature works with AppleTV? I'm guessing it won't, but I'm hoping it will as that would be really great! Although this wouldn't be the first time apple overlooked the AppleTV in the great ideas department... :(
 
EagerDragon said:
My FedEx guy said to me "I have your Snow Leopard for you", he said his truck has a bunch for all the people in my small town of about 30,000 people. So I asked him how many he had, he said he lost count but that he had a lot of them. At that I said that I was surprised about the number of Macs in the town, and he said there were a lot. So I asked him if he had a Mac since he knew what was in these boxes and he said no, that he is waiting for his PC to die to get a Mac.
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That is funny. My FedEx guy said "Here's your package from Apple. I don't know what's in there but I've got a lot of them!" He then said that Apple had sent out over 200,000 copies last night just in the US.
 
any one else not having the improved battery menu in 10.6?

Any one else not having the improved battery menu in 10.6?

i cant see the new condition info in the menu.
 
dL. said:
Is it just me or is MSN Messenger not working properly again? When I open a conversation I start typing and nothing shows up. I press on the message box many times and try typing, I don't see the cursor nor anything that I typed.

dL
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When did MSN ever work correctly?

Ever had the *BOP* sound from time to time under Leopard? MSN seems to repeat quite a lot of bop sounds over a period of 3 - 5 minutes as if you had mistakenly hit a key with nothing selected. While doing nothing.

Eidorian said:
The default color profile isn't a washed out misery like it was under Leopard for my MacBook Late 2007.
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Please tell me you haven't just discovered 2.2 with Snow Leopard and you used this:

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...for years with Leopard/Tiger.
 
gestures

Is there an easy way to see if your machine physically supports gestures ?
I know SL now allows 'older' machines to use 3/4 finger gestures but how 'old' of machines are they talking about ?


Only one small gripe so far: on the Dock when you click for menu options, I don't like all the options being under a flyout/sub menu. I liked them just being listed right there.
 
vohdoun said:
Please tell me you haven't just discovered 2.2 with Snow Leopard and you used this:

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...for years with Leopard/Tiger.
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I've been using a custom profile on my MacBook for years. :rolleyes:

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard without it and the default one isn't that bad.
 
Master Chief said:
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist

Locate:

<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string></string>

Change it to:

<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>arch=x86_64</string>
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I'm having some trouble booting into 64bit kernel. I have a 2009 mac mini with 64bit EFI, 64bit Proc, 64bit kernel... I've tried holding down 6+4 on boot, I've used the app 32-64 kernel selector, and tried manually updating the plist. still shows 32bit EVEN though the plist says its 64bit.

Any ideas? :confused:

 
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