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Works that way in Leopard too, so that's not new.
Anyway, re: the shadow staying in Spaces and Expose, finally! That's been bothering me since Panther, too!
So I'm imagining the 11.7 GB more disk space I have after upgrading to 10.6?It certainly seems real to me.
You are. SL uses base 10 counting as Leopard did base 2
Because of that, all your files now take up more "space" than they did on leopard
You are imagining it. Really only gained around 6 gb over leopard
I mean think about it....how can a leopard install which takes 13GB or so and SL takes around 7 all the sudden save over 20GB in some cases
lets uses some thought here people
So I'm imagining the 11.7 GB more disk space I have after upgrading to 10.6?
No. You gained around 7 GB, but let me explain a bit: Leopard counted data in a GiB format. Snow Leopard counts data in GB format. That's why it was always 30+ GB's off from the hard drives actual amount. Now, it would be the actual hard drive amount (250 GB Hard Drive= 250 GB shown in Disk Utility). It does not mean there is more space, just a different way of information. The files you have on your hard drive take more "space" now. But not real space, just a different amount. It al equals up, though.
So I was mucking around in Aperture and decided to alter the new Aurora wallpaper.
2560x1600
Very nice, I still won't use them as I still like the tiger default blue wallpaper but very nice indeed.
I've still got Leopard. I had to try this out to see for myself, and of course you're correct. But - wow - how the heck did you even notice that?? Now its going to bug me. It didn't before, but now that I know to look for it .... sigh.
Gotta stay with Leopard until a couple of drivers get updated - and until there is a consensus about whether CS3 gets much less stable, or just a little bit. But I'm looking forward to upgrading when I can.
apparently from what i heard from the MacWorld podcast, you can use the upgrade disk to upgrade from Tiger as well... not that i would do that...
Here's what I've noticed:
New background gradient thingy in Expose. Outline for instead of highlight. Labels under windows. Minimized windows are under a "bump" and are smaller than the rest.
Black stripe with options now has black buttons.
Software Update is revised. Launch it for yourself, I'm downloading updates.
That Dock menu is different. I suspect that'll be on the menu bar in 10.7.
Menu bar seems more translucent.
System Prefs is different, with revised and separate keyboard and mouse panels.
New background gradient thingy in Expose. Outline for instead of highlight. Labels under windows. Minimized windows are under a "bump" and are smaller than the rest.
Black stripe with options now has black buttons.
Software Update is revised. Launch it for yourself, I'm downloading updates.
That Dock menu is different. I suspect that'll be on the menu bar in 10.7.
Menu bar seems more translucent.
System Prefs is different, with revised and separate keyboard and mouse panels.
From the Installer log
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Aug 28 14:50:57 localhost OSInstaller[137]: Reaping previous system
Aug 28 14:52:37 localhost OSInstaller[137]: System Reaper: free space before: 22.55 GB
Aug 28 14:52:37 localhost OSInstaller[137]: System Reaper: free space after : 32.19 GB
Aug 28 14:52:37 localhost OSInstaller[137]: System Reaper: free space diff : 9.64 GBYou're not telling me that the Snow Leopard installer used two different systems when calculation these numbers.
I don't have the one from my macbook but it was reporting ~13GB difference
i backed up my stuff to an external drive (get your LIBRARY folder! it saved me big time) and then wiped the drive using the SL disc, then installed SL and it's rocking and rolling for me. very much like the upgrade.
oh, i dunno if this is a difference or not, but i no longer have a check box for ignoring the trackpad when a mouse is hooked up, even tho i don't have a multitouch pad and i had it on leopard.
Holy cow!! Due to the change in how space is reported I didn't think I reclaimed much space. After your post just went in and checked, 17.9GB!
Even if there is a discrepancy due to the GB GiB thing, that is still a good chunk of space.
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But did you gain 10 gigabytes or 10 gibibytes (~10.5 gigabytes)?
I got 10827472896 bytes. Unless they are changing the meaning of bytes aswell!!!
Network drives can be added to "Drives" on the sidebar in finder.
Something that is more of a flaw than a feature for me is that network drives added to login items automatically open in finder when you login. They should stay closed.
Something that is more of a flaw than a feature for me is that network drives added to login items automatically open in finder when you login. They should stay closed.
Finder reported 23.2 GB free before and now 36.9 GB after, so 11.7 GB freed up. Checking the install log, it reports a 15GB delta, or 8.8GB delta going by the "postflight" value.
No matter how you slice it, space was saved.
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Aug 28 11:51:55 localhost OSInstaller[155]: System Reaper: free space before: 21.66 GB
Aug 28 11:51:55 localhost OSInstaller[155]: System Reaper: free space after : 37.64 GB
Aug 28 11:51:55 localhost OSInstaller[155]: System Reaper: free space diff : 15.97 GB
Aug 28 11:51:55 localhost OSInstaller[155]: System Reaper: Postflight ok (30.44 GB remaining)No matter how you slice it, space was saved.
You misunderstood, I merely booted the machine with the 64 bit kernel to see if it would actually run. I use the 32 bit kernel full time, hence "normal" use. I don't have any reason at this point to run a 64-bit kernel, and I need VMWare Fusion running (which won't run on the 64-bit kernel at the moment). The SL kernel runs 64-bit apps just fine with the kernel in 32-bit mode, and I only have 4 GB of RAM, so why bother?
Much ado about nothing? You're the one critiquing how I boot my laptop, are you not?
The weather widget is now powered by Yahoo!, as opposed to AccuWeather as in 10.5. So now the Mac's weather widget will always display the same forecast as the iPhone's weather app. Not a big change, but a nice one all the same, as the conflicting forecasts always used to bug me when using 10.5.