Yeah, there's a catch-22 for ya. The new trend in trendsetting: Stick with the untrendy trend, that way you're much trendier than the trendy ones.Wait, Apple is going to follow what everybody else does? I thought it's the other way around.
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OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Build 10A335 Seeded to Developers
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Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I have noticed that page 1 of most threads usually has one really lame statement or question. Then again about page 5, someone writes, "I haven't read all the previous posts in this thread, but...(insert a new lame beat-to-death question)."
The SL will look like the current OS when it's just sitting there, but once you ask it to do something it will do it so fast you will be able to hear the chins hitting the floor all around the room.
Where the current OS instructs the computer using binary code, Snow Leopard will use one-state code. One-state means the computer is not limited by clock speed, number of CPUs, or front-side RAM. Before you can release the command key, the process is done.
As a professional procrastinator I NEED this OS. For example, I intended to write the previous paragraph 24 days ago. With Snow Leopard it would have retroactively happened.
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This makes me happy!
Though... come to think of it, my MacMini doesn't... could that be why it wasn't showing any improvements? I mean it ran SL but it didn't run faster...
sorry for the belated reply i was offline.
if you have a Core Duo Mini it will still run Snow Leopard well it just wont run in 64-bit mode only in 32-bit mode. but Apple have stated that there will be only one version of SL and it will seamlessly run on both x32 and x64 Intel hardware just not Power PC hardware.
Interestingly it'll be up against Windows 7 which, like Snow Leopard, is just a performance and stability update for the previous OS. Microsoft is fooling people into thinking the OS is new by updating the UI so I would imagine Apple would do the same thing. Most consumers don't care what's under the hood and need to see tangible change.
The Mac Mini has just be updated, <insert generic humorous swear here>.
Besides, DVI to HDMI adapters are super cheap. DVI doesn't carry audio though. My Samsung Series 4 has a dedicated DVI input (with a HDMI connector for some reason so I use an adapter) and the sound goes can be fed through analog cinch (phono). The VGA connector has the sound over SPIDF (digital), so I can only do digital video with analog audio or analog video with digital audio. As I do the audio through my sound system, DVI is a good option.
With XBMC and the Apple wireless keyboard, you have a pretty decent media center. I use seagate Freeagent Desk hard drives for storage. They're quiet and power down when no files on them are accessed. Sometimes you notice when you play a video and it starts after 5 seconds because the hard drive disc needs to spin up.
Back on topic:
Is Q3 2009 official for Snow Leopard now? It seems to be still under heavy development... When is Apple's Q3? I know it's not "July, August, September" since financial quarters are usually off from the actual quarters.
One thing in this news item caught my eye: " application crashes under Rosetta." Can this possibly be right?? I thought that Rosetta was ancient history. Wouln't this require a new version of OS-9 capable of running on Intel processors? What possible reason would Apple have for investing the time in making this work (assuming it is theoretically possible) Is this a simple mistake of reporting, or can somebody explain what's going on?
Snow Leopard IS a new cat. The snow leopard is a separate species from the leopard, and it is genetically quite distinct from the other big cats. That is, there is more difference between a leopard and a snow leopard than between a leopard and a tiger.
Also, I'm a bit annoyed by everybody saying that Snow Leopard is just Leopard with stability changes. It is a lot more than that - it is Leopard with major performance and architectural changes. Much like the difference between Vista and Windows 7. And don't expect the initial releases of Snow Leopard to be any more stable than the initial releases of Leopard. It will take atleast a couple of updates, probably until 10.6.2 or 10.6.3, before Snow Leopard is completely stable. Just like any other OS X release.
About the Rosetta crashes, I am just hypothesizing: could it be due to Rosetta being modified to take advantage of Grand Central for enhanced performance?
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Sorry about that reference to OS-9, shows how late it's getting and my brain is shutting down for the night. What I meant to say is that I guess I had naively assumed that by this time the need to run applications compiled for the PowerPC family by means of Rosetta is ancient history by now, so I'm surprised that Apple is bothering to include it. Isn't the whole point of Snow Leopard to develop a "lean and mean" OS?
Sorry about that reference to OS-9, shows how late it's getting and my brain is shutting down for the night. What I meant to say is that I guess I had naively assumed that by this time the need to run applications compiled for the PowerPC family by means of Rosetta is ancient history by now, so I'm surprised that Apple is bothering to include it. Isn't the whole point of Snow Leopard to develop a "lean and mean" OS?
Honestly, who gives a rats ass? It's like when people started debating whether Apple would ever go past 9 on a sub-point release (10.X.9 to 10.X.10 for example, X being 1 - 5).
I'm very much looking forward to 10.6.
I agree on the lame "is it snappier" type of jokes, because they are getting tired, but you cannot expect everyone to read a thread of 20 pages to scan for the question that might have been asked already. The only thing you can expect is that they use the search function, but that one isn't foolproof either.
I guess we all have to live with it that some questions are asked a few times (I just scroll down more and forget about it) and some dumbasses that say "first" on the first post..
It will be interesting to see into what package they plan to wrap the cost of Snow Leopard. The most effective one would be to bundle iLife and/or iWork in the upgrade.
I don't think Microsoft is fooling anyone. Neither is Apple. Windows 7 and Snow Leopard could arguably be called glorified Service Packs when all is said and done. Thing is, folks aren't used to paying for those.
I love it!
Rosetta is going to outlast hardware PowerPC support--plenty of titles remain viable longer than hardware, especially lots of the one-off, small applications
No, Creative Suite is a bundle of separate products. Among its members are Photoshop CS, ImageReady CS, and Illustrator CS; each is an independent, proper, branded product identity.
It's not a letter; it's a number. X (ten).
Maybe and maybe not, but not to replace it with 'XI', is the point.
And rightfully so.
Technically, yes, it's Apple Mac OS X, Version 10.5. OS 10.5. OS X Leopard. But never, ever OS X.5. That interpretation is a conflation of two distinct elements of the brand--the product name and the product version. You did the same thing with Adobe's CS versioning.
Photoshop CS was version 8.0. Photoshop CS 4 is version 11.0, not 4.0.
I'd want it fixed before Disk Utility said something odd!
...Error fgnurk 098123 - Disk Formatted... sorry about your data MOO!...
When they went from PowerPC to Intel, they tried to make the OS exactly the same, so people wouldn't be freaked out by the processor change.
Now they are going from 32 to 64-bit and they are doing the same thing. That is why I believe the rumors of a big UI overhaul are false.
Now they are going from 32 to 64-bit and they are doing the same thing. That is why I believe the rumors of a big UI overhaul are false.