My order is now say "Prepared for shipment" . I am sure it will arrive on Friday morning. I ordered through Australian Store.
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My order is now say "Prepared for shipment" . I am sure it will arrive on Friday morning. I ordered through Australian Store.
Not so sad...
Smaller packaging and less materials match Apple's stated environmental stance. If you want a big 8x11' box filled with inserts and a plastic DVD case, Windows 7 is right around the corner.
hey. the box even gets smaller... it's sad to see the CD is just in a plastic bag...
Smaller packaging and less materials match Apple's stated environmental stance. If you want a big 8x11' box filled with inserts and a plastic DVD case, Windows 7 is right around the corner.
BT = BitTorrent. I have Comcast Cable at home, it is the ONLY option. They Offer 16/2 here but I have 30/8 pretty steady due to "tinkering". That is the best you can expect in most of Florida AFAIK until Fiber gets rolled out.
This has not been the experience of people with Disk in hand. We will see on Friday (or tomorrow) as more and more people get the disc in their mitts.
Que Bueno!
Siga la lucha, copadre!
Pedro es primero en recibir Snow Leopard y numero uno, tambien.
Siga la lucha, copadre!
Pedro es primero en recibir Snow Leopard y numero uno, tambien.
Yeh just like the Leopard "upgrade" disc, where you can install it on a blank drive just by selecting the install from time machine image option, and then backing out. It allowed you to continue installation without having a previous install.
The 64-bit kernel will be faster even if you have 1 GiB of RAM
No Apple supports more than 32 GiB of RAM - so not surprising you don't know anyone with more....
Due to the way OSX implements 32-bit processes, the CPU has to flush an important cache twice for every system call when running with the 32-bit kernel.
With 64-bit kernel and 64-bit apps, this cache flush is unnecessary. Check out: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ard_twice_the_ram_half_the_price_64_bits.html
The difference may be minor for most applications, but don't say "the only reason to boot in 64-bit is so that you could use more than 32GB of RAM", that is not true.
I'll bet that the "My Apple Won't Boot 64-bit Kernel" thread that starts Friday will surpass the "Steve Jobs on Lack of Firewire in MacBooks" thread as the largest whine within two weeks.
No Apple supports more than 32 GiB of RAM - so not surprising you don't know anyone with more....
Due to the way OSX implements 32-bit processes, the CPU has to flush an important cache twice for every system call when running with the 32-bit kernel.
With 64-bit kernel and 64-bit apps, this cache flush is unnecessary. Check out: http://www.appleinsider.com/article...ard_twice_the_ram_half_the_price_64_bits.html
The difference may be minor for most applications, but don't say "the only reason to boot in 64-bit is so that you could use more than 32GB of RAM", that is not true.
I'll bet that the "My Apple Won't Boot 64-bit Kernel" thread that starts Friday will surpass the "Steve Jobs on Lack of Firewire in MacBooks" thread as the largest whine within two weeks.
Well, all your 64 bit programs will run just fine and faster even if the kernal is not running in 64 bit mode. I really don't see what the big deal is? If you need a 64 bit kernal you probably know it and can turn it on. What I don't need is my mom and my sister installing this and now they can't print etc. There are far more people don't need a 64 bit kernal than those that do and it's a simple step to get it.
Why do people have to lie when they do their typical "LOL M$ SUX!" type bashing? I mean, honestly.
Windows 7 packaging: http://gizmodo.com/5302291/windows-7-packaging-is-plain-but-with-subtle-flair-and-flare
Anyway, who cares about the packaging? It's obviously about what's inside and hopefully Snow Leopard will be just as enjoyable as Win7 has been for me. Looking forward to having both in my home at last.
I assume the welcome video will be the same as on the developer preview? This I find strange as it was tied in with the 10.5 packaging, now it bears no relation...
Wish I can get speed like that where I live. Where are you from and what ISP do you use? I doubt I could really find Fiber in my area, much less as fast as yours.
You are in Mozambique and somehow located only 50 miles away from London. Whether that is London, UK or London, Ontario it's very impressive.
No public ISP in the UK manages more than 50Mb/s at the moment.
I'm doing it right now on my first gen Mac Pro 2.66 with a flashed 1 gig ATI XFX Radeon 4870.
I did a 1080P playback of an H.264 video I downloaded from the Apple site and my CPU usage was 15%.
Also, I have the 4870 driving a 30" ACD, and the original Nvidia 7300 driving a 23" ACD and a 17" NEC, and it didn't matter on which monitor I played the video back on, OpenCL still did it's thing.
Yes, the 13" MBP can do it. The 13" uni-MB can't. As the 13" MBP is just a rebadged uni-MB, and the internal hardware is the same, I don't see a valid reason for this discrepancy.
