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Snow Leopard's Best Improvement?
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I like the double click iCal editing. Every time I did it (in Leopard) I shook my head and said "this is dumb."
You would also almost have to wonder whether this could have been released for 64 bit capable PPC as well
My understand was its a pretty big over haul for the software, it just not all visible(That said, its still possible to download OSs, like Ubuntu/Windows 7)
Please elaborate. I know that iCal has some stupid editing in that it takes several steps to get there, but how has it improved?
I really like the Screen Recording feature of Quicktime X, and the new Exposé is very nice, as is Stacks. I love how when Quicktime is playing a video, the bar and control options go away. Really nice. Just like a video on my desktop.
In Leopard, to edit the time of an appointment, you had to double click it, then click edit, then you could edit the time.
Now in Snow Leopard you can just double click it and the appointment shows up already edit-able.
Internet connections keep getting faster though. Perhaps in the future
Yeah, I think one day Software Update will actually do more than point updates. It'd be pretty awesome. (Even more so if 3rd-party devs could use it)
Disk Space
According to before-and-after disk info, I gained over 18GB of hard drive space after installing
According to before-and-after disk info, I gained over 18GB of hard drive space after installing
According to a benchmark thread floating around here somewhere, there isn't that much of a speed difference.
I'm guessing most people here have just been hearing that SL was going to be faster so they "think" it is.
I haven't really noticed anything, except for some minor UI changes, but I haven't gone out of my way looking for new stuff. I guess photoshop is faster... i dunno.
Considering this is mostly an under the hood upgrade, i'm sure the 30 bucks is money well spent.
Considering this is mostly an under the hood upgrade, i'm sure the 30 bucks is money well spent.
Spring loaded dock finally!
There was always an annoying feature I had encountered every since Expose came out which was when you had set up your hot corners and wanted to see all your open windows. From there you couldn't mouse over to 'show desktop' without all the exposed windows falling back into place, cluttering your desktop. This forced me to mouse over again to the same hot corner to show the desktop as I wanted to do in the first place. Snow Leopard takes care of that.
I hope that made sense.
There was always an annoying feature I had encountered every since Expose came out which was when you had set up your hot corners and wanted to see all your open windows. From there you couldn't mouse over to 'show desktop' without all the exposed windows falling back into place, cluttering your desktop. This forced me to mouse over again to the same hot corner to show the desktop as I wanted to do in the first place. Snow Leopard takes care of that.
I hope that made sense.
spring cleaning
I like the Spring Cleaning of the OS that Snow Leopard has done! Before I updating to Snow Leopard, I had over 920,000 files on my Leopard system (including the OS files and my user account files). After updating to Snow Leopard, I now have 766,892 files on my computer. I guess they cleaned out lots of legacy stuff (or compressed it), as none of my personal files are missing.
This represents reclaiming of 3.3 GB of space.
I like the Spring Cleaning of the OS that Snow Leopard has done! Before I updating to Snow Leopard, I had over 920,000 files on my Leopard system (including the OS files and my user account files). After updating to Snow Leopard, I now have 766,892 files on my computer. I guess they cleaned out lots of legacy stuff (or compressed it), as none of my personal files are missing.
This represents reclaiming of 3.3 GB of space.
I'm sure that's the case. As far as performance, i think people might be imagining things.
Sorry I forgot I had to change the settings. iCal>prefs>advanced>open events in separate windows.
Don't forget that this update goes all 64-bit, discontinues PPC support, and does a ton of things most of us don't see. It sounds like a LOT went into this, and it's hard to complain about an OS upgrade that costs $29. Do you think Windows 7 is going to cost $29?
more disk space than normal
Everyone who is surprised because they got a lot more disk space freed up than expecting...
Keep in mind that Leopard switched to base 10 counting:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/721173/
So...if I understand the technical part well enough, you're in theory receiving an additional 24 MB for each GB in your drive. Not literally getting the space, but it's just because of the counting method.
That's why I think many of you are surprised, especially if you have a large hard drive...the gains are more.
Sorry to burst any bubbles.
Everyone who is surprised because they got a lot more disk space freed up than expecting...
Keep in mind that Leopard switched to base 10 counting:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/721173/
So...if I understand the technical part well enough, you're in theory receiving an additional 24 MB for each GB in your drive. Not literally getting the space, but it's just because of the counting method.
That's why I think many of you are surprised, especially if you have a large hard drive...the gains are more.
Sorry to burst any bubbles.