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New Snow Leopard 10A380 Screenshots Emerge
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Does anyone know if Snow Leopard is finally resolution independent and allows me to make text etc universally larger. I find that on Win7 increasing the DPI a bit makes it more pleasant to read on a 30" monitor whereas on OSX everything is too small for my tastes because it doesn't support scaling in Leopard.
Ok so here's my experience with 10.6. It's very brief since I installed in yesterday. It's very much feature complete but it is definitely a new version compared to 10.5. Works a lot faster and Safari IS faster on 10.6 than it is on 10.5. Only a small speed increase in general usability but a jump in JS performance. If you know the Chrome Experiments site ... well it makes some of them seem poorly coded and not mend to be run at high speed.
QT seems very much like a development version and lack some refinements. It does play divx files without Perian so that's a step in the right direction.
System updates have been updated and updates like iTunes no longer require that you restart the computer.
SIMBL no longer work and neither do applications like Afloat and adblock for safari.
Also there is still a thing called Rosetta which installs on request
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21653829@N00/3616650412/
Overall Snow Leopard is very nice and very fast. I actually though that all the numbers about speed improvements were mostly hype but it actually turns out to be very close to the truth.
Oh yeah almost forgot, older MBPs get 4 finger gestures ...
QT seems very much like a development version and lack some refinements. It does play divx files without Perian so that's a step in the right direction.
System updates have been updated and updates like iTunes no longer require that you restart the computer.
SIMBL no longer work and neither do applications like Afloat and adblock for safari.
Also there is still a thing called Rosetta which installs on request
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21653829@N00/3616650412/
Overall Snow Leopard is very nice and very fast. I actually though that all the numbers about speed improvements were mostly hype but it actually turns out to be very close to the truth.
Oh yeah almost forgot, older MBPs get 4 finger gestures ...
Yes it is possible and the upgrade process works quite well. I actually installed from a partition on the primary hdd since I was out of DL dvds. Took about 35-40 minutes and all my files and preferences are intact. After the install completed Spotlight had to reindex the files but that's really no biggie. Oh and it cleared abut 10gb of space which was quite a surprise.
i hope preferences are added. automatic play and full screen preferences are essential!
What intrigued me is the fact that after looking though every single component file for every single menu and every single piece of interface, I couldn't even find a single mention of either the preferences or any of the preference items that may appear there...
I'm not sure, either something major will be added and Apple wants to keep it close to its chest for now so they're being extremely careful not to let a single thing slip out or there won't be preferences at all, which is I think unlikely and very stupid as this way you can't even set to to black out the other screens while in full screen...
Thanks for the screenshots of SL
Yeah, extremely nicely! I've been using it for 2 days straight now or w/e, and so far everything has been absolutely excellent and even more stable then Leopard - not that that's saying much given my experiences with it over the last few years...
As you say, Google Chrome offer protection on a tab by tab basis, Safari however provides it on a component level so even if say some flash player on some ad crashes, only that ad will die, but the rest of the page will still remain perfectly usable.
I did however manage to crash Safari 2 times now, both times when I was loading very large groups of RSS feeds - ones with 4-500 articles spread across 20-30 sites and with a dozen images in each post.
But with that said I experienced the same issue back with Safari 3 too so at least 4 is no worse
Yes, it upgrades. Cleans up 10GB of space too.
I've been playing with it since last night and it seems to be pretty stable and definitely faster than Leopard.
Some tweaks over Leopard:
- Text substitutions, autocorrect à la iPhone, text transformations
- Services are presented way better, integrated into right-click menus
- Data Detectors
- Everything but iTunes is 64-bit
- New analog clock, digital clock can show both date&time now
- QuickTime Pro features in QuickTime X
- Some UI tweaks
Yes, it upgrades. Cleans up 10GB of space too.
I've been playing with it since last night and it seems to be pretty stable and definitely faster than Leopard.
Some tweaks over Leopard:
- Text substitutions, autocorrect à la iPhone, text transformations
- Services are presented way better, integrated into right-click menus
- Data Detectors
- Everything but iTunes is 64-bit
- New analog clock, digital clock can show both date&time now
- QuickTime Pro features in QuickTime X
- Some UI tweaks
Please oh please Apple make iLife 64 bit! (that is to say iPhoto and the rest of iLife are all still 32 bit). iPhoto, iTunes etc, are sooooo horribly slow!
Oh but on a more positive note, what I noticed is that finally, scrolling though the pages in the iTunes Store doesn't lag/jump, now is almost as smooth as scrolling Safari.
Do you have the ability to change more of the system fonts sizes. Like menubar text appearing bigger and folder text? I'm talking more than just the current desktop tweaks. This is one thing I really miss from Windows. It's a blessing on a 13" display for a guy with bad eyesight.
I'm not sure on all the booting options, but you can very easily do an upgrade from Leopard. All I did was burn the .dmg to a DL DVD, reboot the MacBook so that the Mac OS X Installer launched, and then just told it to install on my current hard drive and partition.
No, once again, Apple knows what's best for you. There's as much (or as little) user customization in Snow Leopard.
I restored the dmg to a 8gig usb stick and booted with alt. This worked like a charm. no need to format an external usb disk.
Are you sure? As I recall, Phil Schiller only alluded to the protection of the rest of the browser from plugin crashes, but not from crashes of individual tab instances ?! Could you maybe elaborate on that ?
Are you sure? As I recall, Phil Schiller only alluded to the protection of the rest of the browser from plugin crashes, but not from crashes of individual tab instances ?! Could you maybe elaborate on that ?
Well, it's pretty much like what I stated. Every tab you open in Safari 4 is now treated like its own web browser, essentially. So if something goes wrong on that tab, like a plug-in, everything else still works.
Not sure of all the the technical jargon behind it, but that's essentially what occurs.
So I guess my point is: Is the (one) browser process only seperated from the plugin processes or do there really exist individual (browser-)processes for each tab? You definitely make it sound like the latter but I don't think your example would be proof for that ?!
Do you have an example, where the rest of the browser stays intact when Safari crashes on a tab instance without any plugins?
Thanks!
So I guess my point is: Is the (one) browser process only seperated from the plugin processes or does there really exist individual (Browser-)processes for each tab? You definitely make it sound like the latter but your example wouldn't prove that ?!
Do you have an example, where the rest of the browser stays intact when Safari crashes on a tab instance without any plugins?
Thanks!
I don't have any personal examples, but maybe someone else does.
Use Google Chrome on Windows and try to get a tab to crash, and that's what will happen in Safari 4. That tab process may freeze up, but every other part of the browser will continue to work.
Btw, all the other 10A380 users here, are any of you experiencing any issues with playing Flash movies? For me on some sites ie thedailyshow.com, flash performance is absolutely horrendous. Quite literally doing 5-10fps... YouTube while not as bad, still a bit of a slowdown vs 10.5.7...
Are you using Firefox or Safari? Just in Firefox it works no worse then usual (not to say that its usually not ****) - but in Safari it s absolutely awful.