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Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?

Wakakanada said:
I must say I am always amazed at the attention Apple packaging gets on these forums...then the porn-like unpacking pics and videos...strange, but then, some people get off on stuffed animals, so to each his own. I must say, I am in the, "who cares about the packaging I care about the product" camp; but I would add that this packaging seems much more mature than the tacky space X packaging.
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EXACTLY what I was thinking! No wonder why a lot of the Windows camp think that Apple customers are a bunch of dweebs. A lot of Apple customers get so caught up in silly stuff and they miss the point of having a computer in the first place. I mean, geez, who give a crap about the packaging as long as you get a boost to your system and it lays a robust foundation for future development! Those who do buy this will just install it and throw the disks in a drawer and forget about it. All of the rest will probably just torrent it and never see the packaging anyway. :rolleyes:
 
I like that packaging, it's nice and fresh. I think it's fake though. As said before, it doesn't match the marketing and design on Apple's OS X site.
 
MacFly123 said:
I was not expecting a completely new UI at all. I was simply expecting a refinement and for Aqua to be taken out. There was plenty of evidence and signs of that happening along the way. But now that it did not happen, and Mac OS X's UI is more mismatched than ever before, I am hoping for an entirely new one in 10.7!
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A refinement =/= taking out Aqua

You don't seem to understand that Aqua is the entire user interface, from the menu bar to the buttons. Prior to Aqua, Mac OS 8 and 9 used "Platinum." Aqua has changed slightly over time, but it has been in use for all of Mac OS X, and likely will continue to see its lifespan extend until OS 11.

I don't know what "refinements" you were looking for. Again, it was made abundantly clear that Snow Leopard is simply a technical improvement over Leopard. There were a few refinements, such as some GUI bugs being fixed, some new sliders being added, even new "traffic lights" being installed, but that's it. That's your refinement.

I can absolutely guarantee that 10.7 will not feature a new UI, but will continue to consist primarily of just minor improvements and changes to Aqua. While Aqua is not necessarily tied into Mac OS X (it could have easily been back ported to OS 9, for example,) it has become the "face" of Mac OS X. You couldn't imagine Mac OS X with any other user interface, and that's the reason Aqua will more or less remain in place until the next big thing.
 
gillboyswims96 said:
wait is snow leopard really going to free up 6 GBs? i thought it would add...:eek:

well to whoever answers thanx.
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Well my hard when I had Leopard installed I could only see like 482GB of my full supposed 500GB hard drive capacity, after Snow Leopard installed it was a proper 501.1GB hard Drive, which pleased me
 
Macmoney said:
Why so much chatter about "cover art"? I mean its just
going in the trash after I take the disc out. What you guys
do? frame them up and hang um on a wall.
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I second that..the only time I save the box is if I need to return a product with its original packaging.. other times I just keep it on a shelf away from sight, and eventually will make its way to the trash
 
MacAndy74 said:
I like that packaging, it's nice and fresh. I think it's fake though. As said before, it doesn't match the marketing and design on Apple's OS X site.
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You're aware that Snow Leopard hasn't been given an official release date yet, and that Apple's page can be quickly and easily updated, right? The page hasn't been updated since WWDC, meaning the information on it is already approaching three months old. Naturally, quite a lot has changed since then.

Do you not remember that for almost a year, the original Leopard page made it appear as if it would have the exact same look and feel as Tiger? And then in all of 24 hours, it was completely updated? Expect the same when Snow Leopard gets an official release date.
 
fuziwuzi said:
when i got my mac, it was the nice apple box inside a brown box. apple packs most products in a brown box around the pretty one.
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Not my MacPro or my 24" ACD. They showed up in their original boxes and all scuffed up to show their journey. But I do agree that most of the smaller items that are tempting to steal or get damaged are packaged inside brown boxes.
 
Macminiintel said:
Well my hard when I had Leopard installed I could only seen 482GB of my full supposed 500GB hard drive capacity, after Snow Leopard installed it was a proper 501.1GB hard Drive, which pleased me
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That's different, and it's an inaccurate representation of the hard drive. 1GB = 1024MB, not 1000MB, so this is a regression in my book.
 
Macminiintel said:
Well my hard when I had Leopard installed I could only see like 482GB of my full supposed 500GB hard drive capacity, after Snow Leopard installed it was a proper 501.1GB hard Drive, which pleased me
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That's because Snow Leopard now reads disk capacity as humans do, instead of binary, as Leopard did. (That is, Snow Leopard will read a 500 GB HDD as 500 GB, instead of 480 GB or so, as Leopard did, although the capacity remains the same under both OS.)
 
Macminiintel said:
Well my hard when I had Leopard installed I could only see like 482GB of my full supposed 500GB hard drive capacity, after Snow Leopard installed it was a proper 501.1GB hard Drive, which pleased me
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That's because it moved to base 10 counting.

500GB = 465GB when you use base 2.

Your drive, nor the computer's reading of it, have not changed.
 
Bill Gates said:
That's different, and it's an inaccurate representation of the hard drive. 1GB = 1024MB, not 1000MB, so this is a regression in my book.
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I know its true, I cant remember the exact number before hand since it was many months ago, I can show you on my mac minis 320GB hard drive in disk utility if you really want
 
Macminiintel said:
I know its true, I cant remember the exact number before hand since it was many months ago, I can show you on my mac minis 320GB hard drive in disk utility if you really want, I do know that 1024MB is 1GB I am not stupid you know, why does everyone here treat everyone like there idiots?
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People who act like idiots get treated like idiots.

I'm not implying you're acting like one, but you also don't need to get so defensive. It's a message board full of Apple fanatics.
 
Chundles said:
That's because it moved to base 10 counting.

500GB = 465GB when you use base 2.

Your drive, nor the computer's reading of it, have not changed.
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yeah I had read about that, but I think its a good, because When i buy a new hard drive it should really say the amount its advertised at
 
Macminiintel said:
I know its true, I cant remember the exact number before hand since it was many months ago, I can show you on my mac minis 320GB hard drive in disk utility if you really want, I do know that 1024MB is 1GB I am not stupid you know, why does everyone here treat everyone like there idiots?
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Who said you were stupid? I simply explained the change for any interested parties, which provided evidence for my claim of it being a regression. Perhaps people treat you like an idiot because you act like one.
 
Macminiintel said:
yeah I had read about that, but I think its a good thing in away, because When i buy a new hard drive I expect it to be bang on what its meant to be & now it is lol
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I have no idea what you just said, but frankly, it doesn't matter how the disk capacity is read. Whether base 10 or "1 GB = 1024 MB," the computer will have the exact same amount of capacity to deal with.

The reason Snow Leopard reads capacity now as base 10 is simply to be more human-friendly. Most people think their hard drives have less capacity than advertised, so the switch simply avoids confusion.
 
Macminiintel said:
yeah I had read about that, but I think its a good thing in away, because When i buy a new hard drive I expect it to be bang on what its meant to be & now it is lol
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I think it's good because it uses the correct SI prefixes.

1000 bytes = 1 Gigabyte
1024 bytes = 1 Gibibyte

You can't use SI prefixes when you're using base 2 because they're never whole multiples of one thousand.
 
Bill Gates said:
Who said you were stupid? I simply explained the change for any interested parties, which provided evidence for my claim of it being a regression. Perhaps people treat you like an idiot because you act like one.
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I am just expressing my opinion and it annoys me when people twist everything around.I have done nothing wrong. Everyone here treats everyone else like an idiot, I mean back on a previous post I said Apple has never used a Big cat photo on the cover of the box, then they start going on about the branding of Big cats like Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar etc, I didn't say that at all in the post lol, everyone assumes & changes it around
 
Macminiintel said:
I am just expressing my opinion and it annoys me when people twist everything around.I have done nothing wrong at all, I have been a mac user for 1998, the community until now has been a very pleasant thing to be in, now i'm not so sure after other things what have happened lately
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I'm still completely in the dark as to why you think others are "twisting everything around," whatever that means. Go start a thread in the community discussion forums and speak your mind.
 
heehee

OMG im sooo excited i made water in my pantaloons

haha if u dont get it dont ask.

about the box art, i love it, i had it as my wallpaper since they come out, reverted to something more meaningful last week.

why r people moaning about the disc packaging! you get it and then (hopefully u wont cut ur fingers trying open it like my MBP) rip it open and shove it into your 'puter.

then u put it away and see it maybe once a year.

new roumer about 10.7 it will be called domestic. it will have mind control built in, but we will be able to ignoor commands like a domestic cat!
the next big cat. not so big, but yeah itll make u do what we tell u too!!!!!
 
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