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Way to take it out of proportion. I use Leopard right now. Upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $129 is not worth it in these times no matter what your justification is. Just cause you may be lucky and have plenty of money in these times, and can spend it more freely than others, does not make that $129 worth it. The performance boosts I'm willing to bet will not be anything drastic, they're probably just a necessary step Apple had to take for the future of OS X.

Have fun uploading to YouTube when it comes out!:)

How can you say that when nobody outside of Apple (Actually probably Apple might not know either) know what the final features set will be in Snow Leopard?

As for justification? You can keep that to yourself, everybody's justification is unique to themselves and they can spend whatever they want with THEIR own money. What do you care about what people pay for?
 
Way to take it out of proportion. I use Leopard right now. Upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $129 is not worth it in these times no matter what your justification is. Just cause you may be lucky and have plenty of money in these times, and can spend it more freely than others, does not make that $129 worth it. The performance boosts I'm willing to bet will not be anything drastic, they're probably just a necessary step Apple had to take for the future of OS X.

Have fun uploading to YouTube when it comes out!:)

Talk about taking things WAY out of proportion. You making these assumptions is just ridiculous. You assume that I have tons of money. WRONG. Did I say that paying $129 was easy for me? NO. You haven't even seen all of Snow Leopard yet in order to make these ridiculous assumptions that it won't be worth paying for regardless of the justification. You have no idea what people's computing needs are.
I suggest wholeheartedly that if SN is not in the cards for you then don't post assumptions that it's not worth it for others.

And please, don't pretend that you haven't done unnecessary things with your money lately despite the economy. I just love how people use the economy adversities to complain about Apple's pricing but have their latest stuff as you are running their latest OS. Was the OS a gift or do you have a recently purchased Mac in the last 18 months since Leopard's inception?:p
 
Sounds good. It's something that may actually make Quicktime useful.

Don

As a separate app right? QuickTime is the basis for iTunes, Safari, and the iLife apps among others. Better QuickTime means those apps get better at handling media.
 
So every time someone creates a half way popular web site Apple will have to modify their software to add an automated uploader to Quick Time. I think they got it right in Aperture, what Apple did is create a way for anyone to write an uploader plug-in. They published the plug-in developer kit and now you see that many photo hosting sites have the Aperture plug in available.
 
Interesting that they are adding consumer features to Snow Leopard. I really do wonder how they are going to get consumers to upgrade if there aren't any major new "features." If consumers don't upgrade, what is the point of developers working hard on apps exclusive to Snow Leopard that consumers can't run?

Me thinks there's more to be revealed at WWDC.

If the apps require Snow Leopard, that's a reason in itself for consumers to upgrade. "Hey, if I get Snow Leopard I can run ___!"
 
Way to take it out of proportion. I use Leopard right now. Upgrading from Leopard to Snow Leopard for $129 is not worth it in these times no matter what your justification is. Just cause you may be lucky and have plenty of money in these times, and can spend it more freely than others, does not make that $129 worth it. The performance boosts I'm willing to bet will not be anything drastic, they're probably just a necessary step Apple had to take for the future of OS X.

Have fun uploading to YouTube when it comes out!:)
Oh brother, look here, I'm playing the worlds smallest violin for you. What are you posting this from the park bench you're sleeping on? You're trying to tell me you've never paid money for "only" performance upgrades? You've never modded a computer/car/whatever? If you're THAT strapped for cash in "these times", might I suggest you get out there and start working rather than commenting about how people should spend their money. There are plenty of big features coming in Snow Leopard, just because they aren't pretty things like GUI upgrades, doesn't mean they aren't significant.

You're willing to bet what? I thought $129 was already too much, now you're gambling?!
 
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