They are really going to need to sell this with some kind of feature update or most people aren't going to buy it - how many people are going to hand over $129 for a performance update.
Shouldn't Apple be doing this anyway - it seems like an omission that Leopard isn't great and this is mearly a dare i say "Leopard Service Pack" that you have to pay for.
Not impressed at the moment.
How could you expect to be impressed when you barely know anything about it? It's tiring to see the same whining comment over and over about the pricing when we don't know the pricing. It seems obvious to me that it will have to be significantly lower than the normal $129, probably at least by half.
Also, this is not "service pack" type stuff since Apple doesn't do service packs. The things they are fixing aren't necessarily bugs, but performance issues and legacy stuff that is no longer necessary. Snow Leopard is very necessary, it's going to prevent a whole Mac OS 9 to X or XP to Vista transition happening all over again. The reason we even had that transition in the first place is because of people being unwilling to change, and Apple was too afraid to do anything drastic until they had no choice. Luckily, Apple is going to do it no matter what.
besides whoever heard of a stable new operating system?! don't make me laugh. Nobody (including apple) has ever made one and that's not going to change in Snow leopard -I'll bet all my money on that.
And why do you think that is? It's because they add new features that have bugs. How can you not understand that that's the whole point of this release? They are going to spend the amount of time they normally spend adding new features (and bugs) and instead they're going to increase performance and maximize stability. I've noticed that OS X isn't as stable as they tend to say, and I believe that this will give us a truly rock solid operating system.
Or perhaps there is more than they are telling us. Rumors of dropping PPC support. They do mention improving compatibility with modern hardware and I did read an article just today that suggested Apple may indeed be moving to opening up OSX to run on PC's. Whatever the case I think something is certainly up.
Really? You
Really think that Apple might have a trick up their sleeve or might, oh, I don't know, be withholding information that's under some sort of NDA-like thing in their Leopard developer sessions? What amazing insight you have. Also, NO. Apple will almost undoubtedly not allow OS X to run on PCs. They already tried that once and it almost killed them. Sorry for the sarcasm...
Other stuff they only half-finish. What happened to resolution
independence? Or ZFS anyone? If they'd put half the energy into
that that they put into the iPhone, we would have it by now.
See, that's what I really think this update is about. They have a lot of features in there that are really buggy, but in a normal release they might fall under the radar. This is where they get to tie all of those features in properly. Here's a list of the ones that I know of:
• Resolution Independence
• Quartz GL (Quartz 2D Extreme)
• ZFS
• FTP
I'm sure there are a lot more. I really think they just aren't at the point where they can talk about it.
