Who will be updating to Snow Leopard? Why/why not?

[drichards]

I was going to buy it just because one of my ex's has my Leopard disc...

 

[alphaod]

I have absolutely no guilt about using his copy of SL. Apple charges a high premium, I'm sure they can afford it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUgB0hNf0bs

Additionally, I'm not sure if it's technically breaking the law. He won't be installing it on his computer and he did technically pay for it. I guess it would be considered a gift... and FYI, he is passing it on because he's buying a new Mac mid-2009, presumably with SL pre-installed.

That violations the contracted agreement that prohibits giving/selling student versions to other people. That is legally enforceable.

 

[bozz2006]

I'd like to personally thank you, nope7308, for completely abusing Apple's education programs and ruining it for legit students, like myself.

 

[shiftmx05]

Just bought my first mac last year (alu macbook 2.0), but I think I will upgrade to SL just for the fact that it will be more stable. Don't really care for any more quirky features or a different look.

 

[iTeen]

If you're going to be a member of this community, you'll care.

And just who are you to say this? I sure as hell don't care.
Don't infer that we are all like you.

Anyway, I do plan to upgrade to SL, if I have the money.
I skipped Leopard and am getting really tired of Tiger.

 

[vendettabass]

I'll be updating for the multi-core enhancements + to make use on my 9400 GPU

Cocoa Finder will be awesome, as will be the smaller footprint. Waiting for more details on Quicktime X!

 

[Tallest Skil]

And just who are you to say this? I sure as hell don't care.
Don't infer that we are all like you.

Don't infer that we're all supposed to follow the rules of the forum?

 

[Mikey B]

Steve said that Snow Leopard would be the first fully 64-bit OS.

The betas we've seen are available for all Intel computers, but have to run some apps in "32-bit mode".

So I'm just assuming that they'll drop Core Duo support along with PowerPC support so as to make the OS be truly 64-bit.

I don't see Apple coming out with a major OS upgrade that leaves 3 year old machines out in the cold.

I'm definitely going to upgrade... I'm salivating at the possibilities SL will bring. I think it has the potential to be an all time high of OS X revs.

 

[mac jones]

Ill be upgrading because I imagine it's better.

At least I hope it is.

 

[numbersyx]

I'm hoping to buy it newly installed on my newly acquired newly released Mac Pro .... sometime this year I hope...

 

[MacBook - 13]

I think the performance of my MacBook 2.4Ghz aluminium is great, but if Snow Leopard will improve it even further - I'm all in

 

[bbaham]

I plan to do a clean install of SL on a new 500gb hard drive. This will give me plenty of room for Ubuntu 8.10 (maybe 9.04) as well as Windows 7....