Perhaps you should wait for a price to be announced next year before deciding if you can defend it.
That alone would be worth the upgrade fee.
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OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard' Seeded to WWDC Developers
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Perhaps you should wait for a price to be announced next year before deciding if you can defend it.
That alone would be worth the upgrade fee.
We have to keep in mind that this was a developers conference and an announcement of an OS that is a year away. It would make sense to preview features that are of importance to developers now, and then preview new user features at the next MacWorld, for example.
Showing the developer tools now could give us a glimpse of features that Apple's programmers might come up with to include in the OS, though.
Showing the developer tools now could give us a glimpse of features that Apple's programmers might come up with to include in the OS, though.
That's my number one question, too.
I don't want to ask anyone to break their NDA (I spent a number of years as a premiere ADC member), but maybe a little birdie has told someone what the minimum install specs are for the Developer Seed....
i'll pay for it, the speed increase is always worth itbut that said, a lot of non-power users won't see the value in a new operating system that doesn't add any 'features'
i'm expecting at least 10-20% speed bump across the board, and that makes it cheap at $129
But fixing "issues" that cause the system to be slower should be fixed by apple in a update not in making people pay again, for the same OS with under the hood improvements.
I noticed you have a Core 2 Duo..If it weren't for the transition which needed Rosetta you wouldn't even have Leopard or an Intel machine. This isn't an "issue" upgrade.
This feature is already in 10.5 due to the Macbook Air which does not have a DVD drive from which to install the OS.
THIS IS SHEAR INSANITY.
I just bought Leopard, and now they have Snow Leopard out. Boy am I going to rant. Let me pick some facts that aren't real. I will not pay Apple $499 for this "minor update". If there isn't some new ridiculous Core Animation like water freezing and cracking into frosty ice, then count me out, damnit. I do not know what a Service Pack is, but I think Apple should be doing that instead. Why? Because that sounds cheaper to me and doesnt negate that I had to pay for this install. Apple, you're off your rocker if you think I will pay $499 for this "new OS". Everyone vote negative, Apple needs to listen. I will only pay $20 if and when there is a Service Pack update with new Core Animation only, thank you.
I just bought Leopard, and now they have Snow Leopard out. Boy am I going to rant. Let me pick some facts that aren't real. I will not pay Apple $499 for this "minor update". If there isn't some new ridiculous Core Animation like water freezing and cracking into frosty ice, then count me out, damnit. I do not know what a Service Pack is, but I think Apple should be doing that instead. Why? Because that sounds cheaper to me and doesnt negate that I had to pay for this install. Apple, you're off your rocker if you think I will pay $499 for this "new OS". Everyone vote negative, Apple needs to listen. I will only pay $20 if and when there is a Service Pack update with new Core Animation only, thank you.
I don't see why people are pushing for PPC being dropped. It's still way, way too soon. The last Powermac G5 towers are far more than just capable of running Leopard, they run it excellently and with no signs of stress whatsoever. Hell, even my aging 2nd-gen 2Ghz iMac G5 still runs Leopard beautifully. Dropping PPC support at this point is more than a little silly.
I don't see it happening for Snow Leopard/10.6. 10.7? Sure... but 10.6 is far too soon. At most, G4s are all that will be dropped.
I don't see it happening for Snow Leopard/10.6. 10.7? Sure... but 10.6 is far too soon. At most, G4s are all that will be dropped.
Brilliant!
Today has amused me, after years (literally, years) of unqualified people complaining about 'bloat' in iterations of OS X, we now have people saying "What? Remove the bloat? NO! I WANT NEW FEATURES DAMNIT!'
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Umm, what the hell? Where on earth did you pull the $499 figure from? If you paid that much for Leopard, congratulations, you've been royally ripped off.
And something that people don't seem to get is that with Snow Leopard, Apple is doing a deep cleaning and optimization of the operating system that's far, far, far deeper than anything a measly downloadable service pack would be able to accomplish. There will be huge, radical under the hood changes. This is NOT equal with a service pack or 10.5.x release.
Try Xslimmer. It strips unnecessary code and has a genie to locate all strippable applications. It has this feature for such an event as a conflict with certain apps:
"Automated Blacklist
To avoid unnecessary headaches Xslimmer uses a downloadable blacklist, which tracks apps that do not allow themselves to be modified - to prevent piracy, usually. Blacklisted apps will be ignored, and the list will be automatically updated as new troublesome apps are discovered."
It also gives you the option of making an automatic backup of your app before slimming it down. In case it won't work anymore, you have the backup. If it does work, just trash the backup. I haven't needed the backup yet.
More like the anti-bloatware edition.
A release concentrating on cleaning up the OS and all the legacy stuff up.
Sort of interesting that it'll offer a lot more under the hood and a performance boost while streamlining the footprint in memory and on the drive.
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Not really something you will need, but something Apple needed to do to move forward with OS X 10.7 after that.
Sucks that it might only come with 25-50 snazzy new GUI updates (those additional unlisted features that Apple tends to sneak in.)
But if it comes with an additional 10-25% boost in performance in quite a bit of the OS, while adding features that Pro app developers need ASAP to add the speed boost to their apps.
Something you can skip without guilt if you don't need HD space and a performance boost, since most apps won't require 10.6 until 10.7 ships.
No, this is OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The SHEAR INSANITY begins upon release of OS X 10.7 Sheep.
Fixed that for you
I think there is more to this than they are letting on and we will see sneaky peeks along the way. If it stablises OSX to pre Intel switch the that is good because OSX ppc was rock solid (Panther and Tiger).
Yaaaaay! I better be replaced by iTunes 7 elements (including menu header, and the three buttons on the title bar).
The Server version of 10.6 supports ZFS. The page for the standard version does not say anything about ZFS.
"ZFS
For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots."
According to someone at WWDC, Snow Leopard does not currently support PowerPC - it KP's on attempting to boot the DVD. That said, this may change.
I envisioned that clip from "Lisa's a Vegetarian" where they were watching the informational movie on eating meat. A hawk swoops down and carries away a large sheep to demonstrate the food chain.
Memory usage would not tell you much, for example an efficient OS might find some way to put every last byte of RAM to use rather then leting some of it remain un-used.
Some times performance tuning is counter productive. For example I tell people that the goal of tunning a database server to to get the CPU usage up near 100%. Anything less means the CPU is waiting on some other resourse like the disk.