What is wrong with the picture of the Snow Leopard? Fashion is changing, design is changing - and Apple is changing as well.
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Photos of Snow Leopard Disc and Retail Packaging?
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What is wrong with the picture of the Snow Leopard? Fashion is changing, design is changing - and Apple is changing as well.
Man that looks pretty authentic! Love that Snow Leopard look too!
LOL Your avatar made me think there was a bug on my screen. I kept trying to kill it. hahaha
Because its a rumor related to the "Final" Build of Snow Leopard.
I doubt its even a true one. The guy customized his computer so freaken much.
That's a gorgeous design for the packaging... jawdroppingly gorgeous. Beautiful way to usher in the coming of a new OS!
Beautiful way to usher in the coming of a new OS!
Mate, apart from the kernel and extensions - everything is 64bit. I don't know about you but it is a big improvement over Leopard. The finder alone has been giving a giant boot up the behind and now isn't a horrible, unresponsive, beach ball addicted lump of executable.
I'm sorry that your loins aren't excited over the fact that all the improvements are under the hood but sometimes the best improvements are those you can't see from looking at the surface.
No way....
No matter how ready the retail packaging is the Snow Leopard, and even if it is already ready to be shipped to the stores and points of sales, there is no way Apple would release the new OS anytime before September. The release date it is even on their official web page. A last minute change would make the company look bad. Besides, I cannot recall any occasion in which Apple released a product earlier than the announced date. We've seen unavoidable delays, for instance, with Leopard. In other words, nothing will come out, not before September 1st.
No matter how ready the retail packaging is the Snow Leopard, and even if it is already ready to be shipped to the stores and points of sales, there is no way Apple would release the new OS anytime before September. The release date it is even on their official web page. A last minute change would make the company look bad. Besides, I cannot recall any occasion in which Apple released a product earlier than the announced date. We've seen unavoidable delays, for instance, with Leopard. In other words, nothing will come out, not before September 1st.
I upgraded since that appeared to be the only option upon DVD bootup. I know that I could've hit "Customize" to get to the Clean Install option but I figured I'd take the dive and simply upgrade.
I will say though that I added the "force Intel 64bit" string to the Boot .plist file and noticed some improvement.
Now if only iLife (esp. iPhoto and iMovie) were coded for 64-bit efficiency...
The Snow Leopard would look better as a cartoon
A cartoon Snow Leopard will look better than the real thing. That is because a snow leopard is meant to be seen in bright light, and the packaging will not be able to portray that. So a cartoon made by Pixar will be more cuddly and bright and clean looking -- and brighter. So they need a Pixar Snow Leopard instead of a picture. He should be called "Snowy." A movie of Snowy battling the ugly MicrosoftEmpire with Darth Gates would also be a big hit.
A cartoon Snow Leopard will look better than the real thing. That is because a snow leopard is meant to be seen in bright light, and the packaging will not be able to portray that. So a cartoon made by Pixar will be more cuddly and bright and clean looking -- and brighter. So they need a Pixar Snow Leopard instead of a picture. He should be called "Snowy." A movie of Snowy battling the ugly MicrosoftEmpire with Darth Gates would also be a big hit.
Well then, it must be showing up on the torrents.
I wouldn't know. My company is using our Apple Dev. contract to obtain our copies.
compare:
both images taken from google.
so your mad because someone doesn't agree with you?
OMG I thought the Company names were for metaphors!!!
I didnt think they were real brands. @_@
Its our Target Brand. We just ditched the ribbion like look of "Target Brand" for the clean, apple like look of "Up and up" . i like the new look and even the name, and when I do cashier, I see a lot of up and up come though our lanes.
and your right, store brands are the "real" brands under the store label. (even though Target says its not made my so and so compney, even though the package is exactly the same as the compney they say its not made by)
It would also be inconsistent of Apple to make the printed label different from the icon that shows up in the installer (which is this same image of a snow leopard).
True they have used that X in Snow Leopard branding, but this was all back in June, during WWDC. I don't suspect they are going away from the X, but as a product differentiation from Leopard, I think it makes sense.
Uhh... It's box art. I'm pretty sure box art decisions proceed routinely, with or without the intervention of Steve Jobs.I too think Apple could have done something a lot more special than a copy paste of a snow leopard on the box...
Ahh, damn it... Apple has changed so much since Steve chose to be absent.
The "dumb X" seems to have worked quite well for Mac OS X since 2001. But now that the Snow Leopard box art won't feature an "X," it's suddenly dumb and uncool, right?
Upgrading should work fine for most people. The only reason you'd want to spend $169 on the Mac Box Set is if you really want to do a clean install, although I really don't think you'd need to...
It's a nice image, yes, but it's not "jaw-dropping beautiful." It's just box art, nothing more, nothing less. Most people will open the box, remove the DVD and throw the box away.That's a gorgeous design for the packaging... jawdroppingly gorgeous.
If this is legit, why would the text on the box be in Portuguese, but the disk itself have "Install DVD" in English?
