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Snow Leopard Build 10A421 Seeded to Developers

snberk103 said:
A photographer who manages to have a series of images that Apple buys. Makes you wish you were in a different job, doesn't it! :) :)

For the record, I'm a photographer.... and I can't afford those lenses either. But Steve Winter is very very good, and more importantly - dedicated. I know a photographer who will wait in freezing temperatures for dawn to break, for hours on end, day after day, until he gets the image he wants. One Image. Maybe, he'll take two or three exposures, one exposure in each of the 3 formats he shoots with. Sometimes he gets nothing at all. He's been known to go back to the same location year after year at the same time of year, waiting for the perfect light. That is the kind of photographer who can afford those lenses.
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It is always inspiring to learn about people who are so passionate about their own.
 
Wayfarer said:
I think is looks absolutely beautiful and MUCH more modern than the current one. A great improvement. From an artistic standpoint it makes snese. The blue reminisienct of the older quicktime logos and the aluminum finish reflects apple's recent design. It's an evolution, I think.
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Agreed. The old one looked quite antiquated and I'm glad they're mixing it up (and iTunes and Leopard are definitely steps in the right direction as well).

This is the icon I'm using now, though :)

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It appears that Snow Leopard is coming together quite nicely. There isn't that much time left to put together a GM-worthy product since September will be around before you know it. I'll be one of the risk-takers installing a *.*.0 product.
 
InkMaster said:
May I be the first to say, it looks absolutely disgusting. Seriously, the old icon looks way more modern then this roadkill. Honestly whoever has been designing all the UI elements for the OS in the last few years needs to go. First iTunes, then Leopard, then all these horrid icons... ugh.
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Don't slit your wrist over it. It looks fine.
 
axboi87 said:
Ever since the first build of SL on my macbook I have been consistently getting terrible OpenGL test scores in Xbench in SL than with 10.5. No build of SL has corrected this. Its about 150 in 10.5 and 61 in SL. This makes my overall score in Xbench much lower than in regular leopard even though everything else individually tests much faster. Anyone else notice this?
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I've been getting a lower score each build. It hasn't dropped as dramatically as yours, but I've gone from 176 in Leopard to 99 in 10A421.
 
The BIGGEST disappointment for me with Snow Leopard is the lack of Blu-ray playback support. I have nearly 200 Blu-ray movies and can't watch a single one on my Macs, even with an external USB Blu-ray player. Yet Windows has been able to play Blu for quite a while, even on Boot Camp on my Macs. I'm willing to pay the extra couple dollars they tack on to the price of the OS for this support.
 
ayeying said:
Well, since I'm running 64-bit hardware, stuff will execute and run faster. The air isn't a giant netbook, at least from my perspective.
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Not all 64-bit hardware supports 64-bit EFI. No 64-bit EFI, no 64-bit kernel. At this point in time, with SL shipping soon I would not expect your Air to support the 64-bit kernel ever.

And you are getting 64-bit apps. Just not the kernel.
 
Can snow leopard??

As a whole snow leopard is moving towards stability, but I was expecting something more in this seed, something like shown in these two pictures. First picture shows that three microsoft word documents are down into the dock icon and second picture shows the navigational panel in the Finder.
 
akac said:
Not all 64-bit hardware supports 64-bit EFI. No 64-bit EFI, no 64-bit kernel. At this point in time, with SL shipping soon I would not expect your Air to support the 64-bit kernel ever.

And you are getting 64-bit apps. Just not the kernel.
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Hmm, so does this mean it's possible that my 1st gen 13" Unibody Macbook won't support it? Is there a way to check? I was able to install a 64bit version of Windows 7 in bootcamp if that means anything...
 
akac said:
Not all 64-bit hardware supports 64-bit EFI. No 64-bit EFI, no 64-bit kernel. At this point in time, with SL shipping soon I would not expect your Air to support the 64-bit kernel ever.

And you are getting 64-bit apps. Just not the kernel.
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How does 64-bit EFI fall into this.
 
birch25 said:
Agreed. The old one looked quite antiquated and I'm glad they're mixing it up (and iTunes and Leopard are definitely steps in the right direction as well).

This is the icon I'm using now, though :)

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You got a link to download that icon? I'm using a similar one for Movist but I like this one a lot more.
 
ethana said:
The BIGGEST disappointment for me with Snow Leopard is the lack of Blu-ray playback support. I have nearly 200 Blu-ray movies and can't watch a single one on my Macs, even with an external USB Blu-ray player. Yet Windows has been able to play Blu for quite a while, even on Boot Camp on my Macs. I'm willing to pay the extra couple dollars they tack on to the price of the OS for this support.
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Take a look at this thread.
 
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