Dude, come live where I am, 28kbs at the most, 32kbs if I'm lucky! And that's apparently "broadband"...Australian style.
doesn't seem so bad down under
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OS X Snow Leopard Retail Disc Contains Build 10A432
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doesn't seem so bad down under
Now I'm torn!
I ordered SL yesterday (family pack) on Apple's website and today I get an email from the makers of Reunion (a Mac specific genealogy program) that there are some incompatibilities with SL and that next week they'll be releasing an update with fixes and, "If you use Reunion regularly, we advise you to delay the installation of Snow Leopard until you download and install the free Reunion update, version 9.0a." Are you kidding me?!? The wife and kids are off to the lake house this weekend, I have the whole house to myself and I have to sit here salivating over a copy of SL and NOT install it. UGH!!!!!
I ordered SL yesterday (family pack) on Apple's website and today I get an email from the makers of Reunion (a Mac specific genealogy program) that there are some incompatibilities with SL and that next week they'll be releasing an update with fixes and, "If you use Reunion regularly, we advise you to delay the installation of Snow Leopard until you download and install the free Reunion update, version 9.0a." Are you kidding me?!? The wife and kids are off to the lake house this weekend, I have the whole house to myself and I have to sit here salivating over a copy of SL and NOT install it. UGH!!!!!
kind of disappointing considering the bugs.
but i know apple has in the past release .1 practically on the eve of release.
but i know apple has in the past release .1 practically on the eve of release.
Anyone who has 10a432 could do that. The box pics make him more of a trusted source. You and I are just bozos with a beta.
if we're still on beta, then what difference did apple make?
like can't we just keep our version of '10A432'? and then upgrade to future updates like 10.6.1?
lol
But i really still wanna buy SNOW LEOPARD on FRI!
I've been using Snow Leopard 10A432 for over a couple of weeks. I'd gladly like to answer any questions that you may have.
I'll point out little things that I've noticed, and how it has been on two of my machines. More of that later, for now I have a couple of things that I've found rather disappointing at least to my expectations.
Now, I haven't followed any of the arguments over these two things in this forums at great details, I've skimmed through few posts here and there but I haven't found any satisfying reasoning yet.
Now, I do understand that personal expectations are different to what general public and Apple's hardware road map is made of, before I'm made aware of it.
My two disappoints are related to 64 bit kernel, OpenCL along with Quicktime X h.264 hardware acceleration. First of all, my 24" Aluminium iMac Model 7.1 (Late 2007) doesn't run 64 bit kernel at all. All the processes are running in 64 bit apart from the kernel. And holding down 6 and 4 doesn't load up 64 bit kernel either.
And my iMac has ATI Radeon 2600HD, clearly there is no mention of any kind of support for OpenCL along with Quicktime X h.264 hardware acceleration. With these two things, I do feel a bit left out on the Snow Leopard party on my top of the range iMac which I bought about a year and 9 months ago.
At the same time, my MacBook Pro Model 4.1 (Early 2008) 2.4 which loads 64 bit kernel just fine as it should, which I bought four months later. Although I have nVidia Geforce 8600M GT, which loses out on the hardware acceleration for h.264, although has support for OpenCL.
Overall, Snow Leopard certainly is refined, and feels solid. But I feel a bit disappointed with patchy hardware selection for different features on Apple's part.
I mean, is my hardware not capable of doing so or just Apple being picky? If I correctly remember, when I looked up the tech specs a while ago, both of my graphics cards were capable of native h.264 hardware acceleration. And what's with not being able to run 64 bit kernal on my iMac Model 7.1 with 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo Extreme?
Oh and any questions about Snow Leopard are welcome.
Cheers.
I'll point out little things that I've noticed, and how it has been on two of my machines. More of that later, for now I have a couple of things that I've found rather disappointing at least to my expectations.
Now, I haven't followed any of the arguments over these two things in this forums at great details, I've skimmed through few posts here and there but I haven't found any satisfying reasoning yet.
Now, I do understand that personal expectations are different to what general public and Apple's hardware road map is made of, before I'm made aware of it.
My two disappoints are related to 64 bit kernel, OpenCL along with Quicktime X h.264 hardware acceleration. First of all, my 24" Aluminium iMac Model 7.1 (Late 2007) doesn't run 64 bit kernel at all. All the processes are running in 64 bit apart from the kernel. And holding down 6 and 4 doesn't load up 64 bit kernel either.
And my iMac has ATI Radeon 2600HD, clearly there is no mention of any kind of support for OpenCL along with Quicktime X h.264 hardware acceleration. With these two things, I do feel a bit left out on the Snow Leopard party on my top of the range iMac which I bought about a year and 9 months ago.
At the same time, my MacBook Pro Model 4.1 (Early 2008) 2.4 which loads 64 bit kernel just fine as it should, which I bought four months later. Although I have nVidia Geforce 8600M GT, which loses out on the hardware acceleration for h.264, although has support for OpenCL.
Overall, Snow Leopard certainly is refined, and feels solid. But I feel a bit disappointed with patchy hardware selection for different features on Apple's part.
I mean, is my hardware not capable of doing so or just Apple being picky? If I correctly remember, when I looked up the tech specs a while ago, both of my graphics cards were capable of native h.264 hardware acceleration. And what's with not being able to run 64 bit kernal on my iMac Model 7.1 with 2.8Ghz Core 2 Duo Extreme?
Oh and any questions about Snow Leopard are welcome.
Cheers.
Lol
Go ahead and install it. The family tree doesn't change (additions and deletions) too often!
Go ahead and install it. The family tree doesn't change (additions and deletions) too often!
Things never stay a secret, eventually people would find out.
The customers who buy apple's expensive hardware.
If there is anyone who has SL already, can they please put a link up for that new background that comes with it? Preferably in a 1680x1050 resolution...
I just want that new background
I just want that new background
No special effects on the box?
The DVD is in a clear plastic sleeve?
This has to be a joke from Apple, what slapdash and cheap packaging.
Well, they are only selling this for $29 and not the $129 they charged for Leopard. They had to save a little somewhere.
I agree, I was just pointing out that the difference between "beta" and "final" was this guy posting unboxing photos of his retail disc. It's all mental. A screen shot means little, but when he has the box he's more trusted than a thousand screenshots of build numbers.
~300kbps down, and like 50kbps up.
Oh well, college campus in 2 weeks.
Wins
meh, why are we posting Speedtest results now ?
So buy the hardware get the OS free for life? hmm.. What about those who Hackintosh so when they steal SL give Apple $0 for all that work.
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No special effects on the box?
The DVD is in a clear plastic sleeve?
This has to be a joke from Apple, what slapdash and cheap packaging.
Yeah, maybe that would have been better so that they could charge $50 instead of $29 to cover the additional packing costs. Of course, then you'd be mad about the price. Some people are never happy, or they complain about the dumbest things.
Take a deep breath and review your priorities.